One O'Clock Jump One O'Clock Jump "One O'Clock Jump" is a jazz standard, a 12-bar blues instrumental, written by Count Basie in 1937. The melody derived from band members' riffs--Basie rarely wrote down musical ideas, so Eddie Durham and Buster Smith helped him crystallize his ideas. The original 1937 recording of the tune by Basie and his band is noted for the saxophone work of Herschel Evans and Lester Young, trumpet by Buck Clayton, Walter Page on bass and Basie himself on piano. "One O'Clock Jump" became the theme song of the Count Basie Orchestra. They used it to close each of their
Jump in My Car Am in the video has been modified to look like KITT from "Knight Rider". Most notably, due to the video being filmed in Australia, the car was right hand drive. Hasselhoff sang this song on an episode of the TV show "America's Got Talent". His cover of the song was a running gag on "Quizmania". Guitarist Chris Spedding released the song as a 45 (RAK 228) in January 1976. The song was also included on his self-titled album released the following April. Jump in My Car "Jump in My Car" is a song originally recorded by Australian rock band Ted