Cab Calloway - (HEP! HEP!) Jumpin' Jive video free download

The Nicholas Brothers. A signature move was to leapfrog down a long, broad flight of stairs, while completing each step with a split. Fred Astaire once told the brothers that this "Jumpin' Jive" dance number from the movie Stormy Weather was the greatest movie musical sequence he had ever seen.

Boy?

Whatcha gonna say there, gate?

Oh, boy!

Whatcha gonna say there, gate?

Palomar, Shalomar, Swanee shore,

Let me dig this jive once more,

Boy!

Lay it right on down to the gator.

Oh, boy!

Lay it flat as a gator.

Now, can't you hear those hepcats call,

Yeah!

Come on, boys, let's have a ball!

The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive

Makes you dig your jive on the mellow side,

Hep-hep!

Hep-hep!

The jim, jam, jump is the solid jive

Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five,

Hep-hep!

Hep-hep!

Now, don't you be that ickeroo,

Get hep, come on and then you follow through,

Then you get your steady foo,

You make the joint jump like the gators do,

The jim, jam, jump on the jumpin' jive

Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side,

Hep-hep!

Hep-hep!

The jim, jam, jumpin' jive

Makes you hep-hep on the mellow side!

Hep-hep!

De-boodle-de-ack, de-boodle-de-ackasaki!

Hep-hep!

Oh, rang-tang, te-dah-dah,

Hep-hep!

Gonna tell you 'bout the jumpin' jive,

Hep-hep!

Jim, jam, jump, the jumpin' jive;

Hep-hep!

Cats gonna beat out this mellow jive;

Hep-hep!

Beat it out on the mellow side.

(Scat singing)