In a tv doc on the bee gees Barry Gibb said of that song that they wrote it(can't recall but it was similar to what you've said) then they changed the word to Jive as they thought it sounded more 'street" and they'd heard the techie guys in the music business use the phrase,so after they had recorded the song one of the musicians,a black…
In a tv doc on the bee gees Barry Gibb said of that song that they wrote it(can't recall but it was similar to what you've said) then they changed the word to Jive as they thought it sounded more 'street" and they'd heard the techie guys in the music business use the phrase,so after they had recorded the song one of the musicians,a black guy said that Jive Talking was in fact street Argo for talking BS. Louis Jordan uses it to mean seduction talk in a 1940s song. I'm a bit sceptical that bee gee wouldn't have known but it made a good story well told.
In a tv doc on the bee gees Barry Gibb said of that song that they wrote it(can't recall but it was similar to what you've said) then they changed the word to Jive as they thought it sounded more 'street" and they'd heard the techie guys in the music business use the phrase,so after they had recorded the song one of the musicians,a black guy said that Jive Talking was in fact street Argo for talking BS. Louis Jordan uses it to mean seduction talk in a 1940s song. I'm a bit sceptical that bee gee wouldn't have known but it made a good story well told.