In the Mood

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Joe Garland

Joseph Copeland "Joe" Garland (August 15, 1903, Norfolk, Virginia – April 21, 1977, Teaneck, New Jersey) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger, best known for writing "In the Mood". Garland studied music at Shaw University and the Aeolian Conservatory. He started by playing classical music but joined a jazz band, Graham Jackson's Seminole Syncopators, in 1924, where he first recorded. He had a long run of associations as a sideman on saxophone and clarinet, with Elmer Snowden (1925), Joe Steele, Henri Saparo, Leon Abbey (including a tour of South America), Charlie Skeete and Jelly Roll Morton in the 1920s. The 1930s saw him playing with Bobby Neal (1931) and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band; he was both a performer and an arranger for the Blue Rh… more »

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Mister Watchacall'im, whatcha doin' tonight?
Hope you're in the mood because I'm feelin' just right. 
Your feet were so heavy till they hardly could move,
Now they're light as feathers and you're right in the groove.
You were only hungry for some musical food, 
You're positively absolutely in the mood!

Sister Watchacall'im, I'm indebted to you.
It all goes to show what good a new hit could do!
Never felt so happy and so fully alive,
It seems that jammin' jumpin' is a powerful jive!
Swingaroo has given me a new attitude, 
My heart is full of rhythm and I'm in the mood!

In the mood, that's it, I've got it! 
In the mood! Your ear will spot it! 
In the mood, oh, what a hot hit!
Be alive and get the jive, you've got to learn how.

Hep, hep, hep! Hep like a hepper! 
Pep, pep, pep! Hot as a pepper! 
Step, step, step! Step like a stepper!
From jammin' to jumpin', we're in the mood now!

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Ooh, ee, ooh. 
Ooh, ee, ooh.
Ooh.

Mister Watchacall'im, whatcha doin' tonight?
Hope you're in the mood because I'm feelin' just right. 
Your feet were so heavy till they hardly could move,
Now they're light as feathers and you're right in the groove.
You were only hungry for some musical food, 
You're positively absolutely in the mood!

Sister Watchacall'im, I'm indebted to you.
It all goes to show what good a new hit could do!
Never felt so happy and so fully alive,
It seems that jammin' jumpin' is a powerful jive!
Swingaroo has given me a new attitude, 
My heart is full of rhythm and I'm in the mood!

In the mood, that's it, I've got it! 
In the mood! Your ear will spot it! 
In the mood, oh, what a hot hit!
Be alive and get the jive, you've got to learn how.

Hep, hep, hep! Hep like a hepper! 
Pep, pep, pep! Hot as a pepper! 
Step, step, step! Step like a stepper!
From jammin' to jumpin', we're in the mood now!


We're heppin', we're steppin', 
We're jammin', we're jumpin', 
We're swinging, we're winning.
We're in the mood now!

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