Editing Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers (section)

==Musical career==
The act had 11 entries in the UK singles chart between July 1989 and November 1991. Each track used a sampled [[instrumental]] theme to join the old songs together, in much the same way as [[dance music]] [[megamix]]es. "Swing the Mood" began with [[Glenn Miller]]'s "[[In the Mood]]" (a recording from 1939), followed immediately by rhythmic re-editing of [[Bill Haley and His Comets]]' "[[Rock Around the Clock]]", [[Little Richard]]'s "[[Tutti Frutti (song)|Tutti Frutti]]" and the [[Everly Brothers]]' "[[Wake Up, Little Susie]]". The recording also had a short extract from ''[[The Glenn Miller Story]]'' (1954) with [[James Stewart]] as [[Glenn Miller]]. "Swing the Mood" was No. 1 for five weeks on the [[UK Singles Chart]] in 1989, and quickly caught on in the United States, where it reached No. 11 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] [[record chart|chart]].

"That's What I Like" featured the [[theme music]] from the television police drama ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'', with overlaid excerpts from rock hits like [[Chubby Checker]]'s "[[The Twist (song)|The Twist]]" and [[Ernie Maresca]]'s "[[Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)]]". "[[Let's Party (song)|Let's Party]]" (released originally in the U.S. as "March of the Mods") used "March of the Mods" (also known as the Finnjenka Dance), interpolating [[Del Shannon]]'s "[[Runaway (Del Shannon song)|Runaway]]" and [[The Wrens (R&B band)|The Wrens]]' "[[Come Back My Love]]" among others. 

In the United Kingdom, "Let's Party" was a Christmas hit with samples of [[Wizzard]]'s "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", [[Slade]]'s "Merry Xmas Everybody" and [[Gary Glitter]]'s "Another Rock 'N' Roll Christmas". Recently this has been remixed to remove the Gary Glitter track to avoid controversy over his subsequent criminal convictions and, somewhat [[anachronism|anachronistically]], replace it with [[Mariah Carey]]'s "[[All I Want for Christmas Is You]]", should any radio stations wish to play it over the Christmas period. They did not have permission to use the original Wizzard recording so [[Roy Wood]] re-recorded the part of the track for them.

With "Let's Party" reaching Number One in the UK Singles Chart a couple of weeks before the Christmas chart of 1989,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kxm8 |title=BBC One - Top of the Pops, 14/12/1989 |access-date=27 July 2020 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727230035/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kxm8 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kxmb |title=BBC One - Top of the Pops, 21/12/1989 |access-date=27 July 2020 |archive-date=27 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727234643/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kxmb |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/8833/jive-bunny/|title=JIVE BUNNY &#124; full Official Chart History &#124; Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=29 July 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19891210/7501/|title=Official Singles Chart Top 100 &#124; Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=29 July 2020}}</ref> the act became the third group after [[Gerry and the Pacemakers]] and [[Frankie Goes to Hollywood]] to 'top the chart' with their first three releases. However, Jive Bunny was also credited on a [[Children In Need]] charity single ("[[It Takes Two (Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston song)|It Takes Two, Baby]]", also featuring [[Liz Kershaw]], [[Bruno Brookes]] and [[Londonbeat]]), which preceded "Let's Party" and did not top the charts. As of 2020, the Official Charts Company website does not include "It Takes Two, Baby" in its list of Jive Bunny releases,<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/25822/bruno-brookes-and-liz-kershaw/|title=BRUNO BROOKES AND LIZ KERSHAW &#124; full Official Chart History &#124; Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=29 July 2020}}</ref> while many [[The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles|British Hit Singles books]] of the early 2000s added the record to their discography.{{cn|date=November 2024}}

The original European medleys featured the original recordings by the original artists. Legalities prevented certain of the original recordings to be reused in [[United States|America]], so the American Jive Bunny releases substituted later re-recordings of the same tunes by [[Bill Haley]], [[Del Shannon]] and others. Later reissues further replaced some of these artists, such as [[Bill Haley]] and [[Elvis]], with impersonator-singers.

The original idea for the project came from Les Hemstock on the DJ-only Mastermix [[DJ service]].<ref name="Larkin90">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=First|isbn=0-7535-0427-8|page=208|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> The original "Swing the Mood" mix appeared on Issue 22 of Mastermix's monthly album release. John Pickles (father of Andy Pickles) was never in the band, but was the owner of the label and effectively the [[Talent manager|manager]].