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Brian Setzer Orchestra

Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1990

Brian Setzer Orchestra formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, United States. Brian Setzer Orchestra has 27 chart appearances on 26 radio countdowns from 15 stations on RockLists, spanning 1998–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Jump Jive An' Wail”, which appears on 16 lists with a best position of #25. The station that charted Brian Setzer Orchestra most often is 105.9 The X (Pittsburgh, PA), with 4 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1998.

27appearances

26countdowns

3songs charted

15stations

0#1 finishes

1998–2025years

Brian Setzer had already made his name fronting the Stray Cats when he went looking for something bigger, and he found it in a full swing band. The Brian Setzer Orchestra plays swing and jump blues with a rock and roller's grin, Setzer out front and a wall of horns behind him: trumpeters Dan Fornero, John Fumo and Kevin Norton and trombonist Mark Jones among them, with John Hatton on bass.

The Dirty Boogie, in 1998, was the breakout, and its secret weapon was a cover of Louis Prima's "Jump, Jive an' Wail", a song that first turned up on Prima's 1957 album The Wildest!. Setzer's version hits like a zoot-suited stampede: horns blaring, drums swinging hard, the whole band hollering along. "This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof", off the same record, kept the party jumping.

The follow-up single, "Gettin' in the Mood", came from Vavoom!, and Interscope has been the label behind the band.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Songs by Brian Setzer Orchestra on radio countdowns

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Peak year
1	Jump Jive An' Wail	715	16	#25	–	1998
2	Jump, Jive, and Wail	302	9	#21	–	1998
3	This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof	7	1	#101	–	1998

Albums with charting songs

Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.

1998The Dirty Boogie2 charting songs

Every countdown appearance

Year	#	Song	Countdown
2025	310	Jump Jive An' Wail	The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs
2024	111	Jump Jive An' Wail	The Colorado Sound Top 850 Cover Songs
2023	369	Jump, Jive, and Wail	105.9 The X July 420 (2023)
2022	390	Jump, Jive, and Wail	105.9 The X July 420 (2022)
2022	442	Jump, Jive, and Wail	The Colorado Sound Top 900 Songs of the '90s
2021	384	Jump, Jive, and Wail	105.9 The X July 420 (2021)
2021	399	Jump Jive An' Wail	90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s
2020	344	Jump, Jive, and Wail	105.9 The X July 420 (2020)
2007	1568	Jump Jive An' Wail	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)
2004	475	Jump Jive An' Wail	The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004)
1999	395	Jump Jive An' Wail	91X Fat 500 Songs of All-Time (July 1999)
1999	663	Jump Jive An' Wail	Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	468	Jump, Jive, and Wail	WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999)
1999	939	Jump Jive An' Wail	The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)
1999	245	Jump, Jive, and Wail	WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999)
1999	74	Artist ranking	KROQ Top 106.7 Artists of All-Time (Memorial Day 1999)
1998	37	Jump, Jive, and Wail	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998
1998	101	This Cat's on a Hot Tin Roof	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998
1998	45	Jump Jive An' Wail	91X Top 91 Songs of 1998
1998	41	Jump Jive An' Wail	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998
1998	21	Jump, Jive, and Wail	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998
1998	25	Jump Jive An' Wail	WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998
1998	34	Jump Jive An' Wail	The End Top 107 Songs of 1998
1998	54	Jump Jive An' Wail	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998
1998	66	Jump Jive An' Wail	WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998
1998	66	Jump Jive An' Wail	WBER Listener Countdown 1998
1998	66	Jump Jive An' Wail	Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998

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