The Dirty Boogie
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| Studio album by The Brian Setzer Orchestra | ||||
| Released | June 23, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Swing revival, jump blues, rock and roll | |||
| Length | 49:32 | |||
| Label | Interscope | |||
| Producer | Peter Collins | |||
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| Robert Christgau | C− |
The Dirty Boogie is the third album from the swing band The Brian Setzer Orchestra. The album is considered as the breakthrough for the band, with their first single being a cover of Louis Prima's "Jump Jive an' Wail", which Prima had made popular in 1956 and included in his album The Wildest!. The release of the single came along after a Gap advertising campaign that featured Prima's original recording of the song. Each helped to propel the larger swing revival throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Seven of the album's tracks are covers of songs written and originally made popular between 1952 and 1962.
In addition to Prima's "Jump Jive An' Wail", covers include "This Old House" (Stuart Hamblen, 1954); "Since I Don't Have You" (The Skyliners, 1959); "Nosey Joe" (recorded by Bull Moose Jackson, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, 1952); and "As Long As I'm Singin'" (Bobby Darin, 1962). "You're the Boss", also penned by Leiber and Stoller in 1961, is the album's seventh track, a duet featuring singer (and labelmate) Gwen Stefani; an earlier popular recording of the tune paired Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret. The eighth track, "Rock This Town", is a song originally done in 1981 by Setzer's previous band, the Stray Cats. "Hollywood Nocturne" was a discarded track from Setzer's previous album, Guitar Slinger.
The album also features a cover of the instrumental "Sleep Walk", made popular originally by songwriters and performers Santo & Johnny Farina in 1959. Setzer's arrangement and recording won a Grammy Award the following year for best pop instrumental recording.
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