A few weeks back our own ‘Di’, of “Di’s Jive Cafe”, found this very obscure musical fossil, a Bobby Darin-penned & arranged little ditty from 1969, titled “Jive”. None of us had ever seen or heard it before. While lyrically sparse, this cutey just fits a certain mood of comfort and sinuosity that we hope you, our dear listeners, find similar to the Jive itself. 

This track seems to be only on the album “Songs From Big Sur”, which is where he understandably took a year hiatus after not only campaigning for, and witnessing the assassination of, his friend Bobby Kennedy, but also learned that his mother was his sister and the woman he grew up thinking was his mom, was his grandmother. YIKES! More here:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Darin

“Jive” – by Bobby Darin

Starin’ at the sun
Been stoned since half past none
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got my paper rolled
I slowed down growin’ old
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got a cloudy-day woman to make my bed and cook for me
When I’m gone a year too long she knows not to look for me
Cause I’ll be back when evenin’ comes
Sleepin’ through them crashin’ drums
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

I got a cloudy-day woman to make my bed and cook for me
And when I’m gone a year too long she knows not to look for me
Cause I’ll be back when evenin’ comes
Sleepin’ through them crashin’ drums
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man
Oh, an-nine to five is so much jive my main man
Jive’s alive from nine to five my main man

Picture this – you’re sitting in a waiting room in some commercial building you’ve never been in. Then all of a sudden the lights go out and you hear a bunch of commotion and sirens outside. You smell smoke. You break out your cell phone’s flashlight, only to see this handy map on the door:

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More clips from the crypt- from a couple of visits to Reno for Jerry Jeff Walker circa late-80’s.

Reno & JJW got along famously.

Please Pass The Jive!

Filmed by KOLO TV8’s Nancy Jordan at Reno’s original Hacienda del Sol (S. Virginia St.) circa late’ ’80’s.

And here is the same ensemble Leon had at the Hacienda, only a few weeks later in Burbank on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson:

Leon was always Cool, and always sold out.

In digitizing the mountain of Bruce Van Dyke’s KTHX tapes (circa mid-90’s), we’re also running across miscellaneous TV interviews for concerts we had on tap in Reno/Tahoe back then.

Here’s one from another Jiveradio staple, David Bromberg  (clik on pic to view), believed to be from around 1989.