Album Only List view 2008 - Jive Bunny's Summer Party 2008 2003 - Big Band Swing 2001 - Ultimate 80s Party 2000 - Spectacular Christmas Party 2000 - Christmas Dance Party 1998 - Beach Party 1997 - Pop Back in Time to the 70's 1996 - Can Can You Party 1996 - Non-Stop Juke Box 1992 - The Album: Swing the Mood 1991 - Rock'N'Roll Hall Of Fame 1989 - Jive Bunny: The Album 0 - Rock 'n' Roll Jukebox 0 - Ultimate Christmas Party 0 - Havin' a Party 0 - Hop Around the Clock 0 - Rock the Party! 0 - That's What I Like 0 - School Disco 0 - The Biggest Party On The Planet
Members 4 Male
Origin Rotherham, England
Genre Pop
Style Rock/Pop
Mood Happy
Born
1988
Active 1988 to Present...
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Artist Biography Available in: Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were a 1980s and early 1990s novelty pop music act from Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. The face of the group was Jive Bunny, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them. Doncaster DJ and producer Les Hemstock created the original Swing the mood mix for the Music Factory owned Mastermix Dj service. It was then taken from there and developed as a single release by father and son team John and Andrew Pickles. The name Jive Bunny came from a nickname Andy Pickles used to call a friend. Ian Morgan a fellow DJ and co-producer also engineered and mixed some of the early releases along with Andy Pickles. Morgan was replaced in the early 1990s by DJ and producer Mark "The Hitman" Smith.
Jive Bunny's three number ones were "Swing the Mood", "That's What I Like" and "Let's Party". All three songs used sampling and synthesisers to combine pop music from the early rock and roll era together into a medley. The results were similar to Jaap Eggermont's Stars on 45 from the late 1970s and early 1980s, although he had hired "sound-alike" singers and musicians to recreate the music from scratch. Also similar was Mirage, active from the mid to late 1980s. Jive Bunny, Mirage and other similar concepts probably helped to establish the 'mash ups' phenomenon in which two or more songs are combined to create a new composition.