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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were an 80's novelty pop music
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 act from Rotherham
Rotherham

Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, South Yorkshire, close to its confluence with the River Rother, South Yorkshire, between Sheffield and Doncaster....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

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, UK. The face of the group was Jive Bunny himself, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them. They were only the third artist ever to have their first three releases go to number one on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
, a feat they achieved between July and December 1989
1989 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989....
. The previous bands to do so were Gerry & The Pacemakers
Gerry & the Pacemakers

Gerry & the Pacemakers were a United Kingdom rock and roll musical ensemble during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were management by Brian Epstein....
 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
.






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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers were an 80's novelty pop music
Pop music

Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
 act from Rotherham
Rotherham

Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, South Yorkshire, close to its confluence with the River Rother, South Yorkshire, between Sheffield and Doncaster....
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
, UK. The face of the group was Jive Bunny himself, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them. They were only the third artist ever to have their first three releases go to number one on the UK singles chart
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
, a feat they achieved between July and December 1989
1989 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1989....
. The previous bands to do so were Gerry & The Pacemakers
Gerry & the Pacemakers

Gerry & the Pacemakers were a United Kingdom rock and roll musical ensemble during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were management by Brian Epstein....
 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
. They also went to number one in several other countries around the world.

Jive Bunny's three number ones were "Swing the Mood
Swing the Mood

"Swing the Mood" is a popular single by Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.Produced by the father and son DJ team of Andy and John Pickles, Swing the Mood was a Sampling record which fused a number of early rock and roll records with liberal use of Glenn Miller's In The Mood....
", "That's What I Like
That's What I Like

"That's What I Like" was a popular single by Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.Father and son team Andy and John Pickles repeated the formula which had taken their record Swing The Mood to number one a few months previously....
" and "Let's Party
Let's Party (song)

Let's Party was a popular single by Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers.The third single by the father and son DJ team Andy and John Pickles it reached the top of the UK singles chart for a single week in December 1989....
". All three songs used sampling
Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
 and synthesisers
Synthesizer

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequency....
 to combine pop music from the early rock and roll
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
 era together into a medley. The results were somewhat like Jaap Eggermont's Stars on 45
Stars on 45

Stars on 45 was a The Netherlands novelty pop music act that was briefly very popular in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, and in the United States in the early 1980s....
, although he had hired "sound-alike" singers and musicians to recreate the music from scratch.

Each song used a sampled instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 theme to join the songs together, in much the same way as dance music
Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dance. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement....
 megamix
Megamix

A megamix is a medley remix containing multiple songs in rapid succession. There may be only one Verse or even just a brief refrain of each song used, sometimes in addition to music samplings of the same or other songs....
es. "Swing the Mood" used Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller , was an United States jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the Swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big band"....
's famous "In The Mood
In the Mood

"In the Mood" is a song popularized by the American bandleader Glenn Miller in 1939, and one of the best-known arrangements of the big band era....
" (a recording dating back to 1939
1939 in music

Events*March 23 ? B?la Bart?k's Violin Concerto No. 2 is premiered by Zolt?n Sz?kely and the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
). "Swing the Mood" was no. 1 for 5 weeks on the UK singles chart in 1989.

"That's What I Like" featured the theme music
Theme music

The phrase theme music usually refers to that of a radio programming, television program, or movie. It is a Musical composition that is often written specifically for that show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits....
 from the television police drama Hawaii Five-O
Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an United States television series that starred Jack Lord as Lead Detective for a fictional Hawaii state police department....
, while "Let's Party" used "March of the Mods" (also known as the Finnjenka Dance).

In reality, the group was a father and son DJ
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
 team, John and Andy Pickles. They have continued to work under the name, but with less chart success.

The original idea for the project came from Les Hemstock on the DJ-only Mastermix DJ service. Andy Pickles then become the front man largely on his own. John Pickles (his father) was strictly speaking never in the band, but the owner of the label and effectively the manager
Talent manager

A talent manager, also known as an artist manager, is an individual or company who guides the professional career of entertainer in the entertainment industry....
. Rebecca Male, a relation of John Pickles, was and is heavily involved in the production of the records.

Andy Pickles later went on to found hard house record label Tidy Trax
Tidy Trax

Tidy Trax is a leading United Kingdom based Hard House record label. Sublabels include Untidy Dubs Records , Tidy Two Records , Tidy White Records and SYNAPSE Records, headed by Paul Maddox, Guyver and a few of Tidy's new generation record producer....
 with fellow DJ Amadeus Mozart.

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