Swing the Mood

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• Let's Twist Again
  Let's Twist Again
  
  Let's Twist Again is song written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell, and released as a single recorded by Chubby Checker, one of the biggest hit singles of 1961 reaching #2 in the UK charts and #8 in the U.S....
   - Chubby Checker
  Chubby Checker
  
  Chubby Checker is an United States singer-songwriter best known for popularizing the Twist with his 1960 hit record cover version of Hank Ballard's Rhythm and blues hit "The Twist "....
  
• 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....
   - 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"....
  
• Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar blues from 1952 in music, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers . The song is ranked #158 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time....
   - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• Wake Up Little Susie
  Wake Up Little Susie
  
  "Wake Up Little Susie" is a popular song written by Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957 in music.The song is best known in a recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by Cadence Records as Catalog numbering systems for single records 1337....
   - The Everly Brothers
  The Everly Brothers
  
  The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
  
• C'mon Everybody
  C'mon Everybody
  
  "C'mon Everybody" is a 1958 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart, originally released as single b-side. Thirty years later, in 1988, the track was re-issued in the UK , and became a #14 hit in the UK Singles Chart....
   - Eddie Cochran
  Eddie Cochran
  
  Raymond Edward "Eddie" Cochran was an United States of America rock and roll musician and an important influence on popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond....
  
• Hound Dog
  Hound Dog (song)
  
  "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country music, and rock and roll in the mid 1950s....
   - Elvis Presley
  Elvis Presley
  
  Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
  
• Shake, Rattle and Roll
  Shake, Rattle and Roll
  
  "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical twelve bar blues-form rock and roll song written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name Charles E....
   - Bill Haley & His Comets
  Bill Haley & His Comets
  
  Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and The Comets and Bill Haley's Comets , was one of the earliest groups of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest...
  
• All Shook Up
  All Shook Up
  
  "All Shook Up" is one of the many hit songs of Elvis Presley. It reached the top of all three U.S. charts , staying there for eight weeks in 1957, from April 13 through May 27....
   - Elvis Presley
• Jailhouse Rock
  Jailhouse rock
  
  Jailhouse rock or JHR is a name which is used to describe a collection of different fighting styles that have been practiced and/or developed within US penal institutions....
   - Elvis Presley
• At the Hop
  At the Hop
  
  "At the Hop", a slightly disguised 12-bar blues celebration of popular dance styles, was a hit single by Danny and the Juniors. The song was released in the fall of 1957 in music, and reached #1 on the United States hit charts on January 6, 1958, thus becoming one of the top-selling singles during all of 1958....
   - Danny and the Juniors
• Tutti Frutti
  Tutti Frutti (song)
  
  "Tutti Frutti" is a song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record in 1955. With its opening cry of "Womp-bomp-a-loom-op-a-womp-bam-boom!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the models for rock and roll itself....
   - Little Richard
  Little Richard
  
  Rev. Richard Wayne Penniman , better known by the stage name Little Richard, is anAmerican singer, songwriter and pianist. He is considered a key figure in the transition from Rhythm and blues to Rock and roll in the 1950s....
  

Track listings

1. "Swing the Mood" (radio mix) — 4:05
2. "Glen Miller Medley" (the J.B. edit) — 3:55

1. "Swing the Mood" (12" version) — 6:00
2. "Swing the Mood" — 4:05
3. "Glen Miller Medley" (the J.B. edit) — 3:55

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