[3] A second version was released with Tex Beneke in the dialogue with Glenn Miller from a June 20, 1938 NBC radio broadcast from the Paradise Restaurant in New York City featuring Gail Reese on lead vocals.

Glenn Miller biographer and confidant George T. Simon reviewed the song in the March, 1938 issue of Metronome magazine, describing it as "much swing, fun, and good Kitty Lane singing."

Belgian bandleader Emile Deltour, under the pseudonym Eddie Tower, recorded a version on November 10, 1940 which was released as a Telefunken 78 single, A10232.

Guitarist Stephen Bennett has recorded the song in an arrangement for acoustic guitar on the 2017 album Fifty Years, and Counting.

The live radio broadcast of "Doin' the Jive" from June 20, 1938 at the Paradise Restaurant was released in 1954 by RCA Victor as LPT 6701 on a five record compilation box set.

The album was entitled Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Collector's Issue, Limited Edition, Volume Two, with each set numbered.

The personnel on the 1937 Brunswick studio recording session for "Doin' the Jive" were: Trombones: Glenn Miller, Jesse Ralph, Bud Smith; Trumpets: George "Pee Wee" Erwin, Bob Price, Ardell Garrett; Reeds: Hal McIntyre, as, Tony Viola, as, Irving "Fazola" Prestopnick, clt, as, Jerry Jerome, ts, Carl Biesecker, ts; John Chummy MacGregor, piano; Carmen Mastren, guitar; Rowland Bundock, bass; and Doc Carney (Cenardo), drums.