Barry Gibb re-recorded the song as a duet with country music star Miranda Lambert for his 2021 album Greenfields.

The song's rhythm was modelled after the sound their car made crossing the Julia Tuttle Causeway each day from Biscayne Bay to Criteria Studios in Miami.

It was overdubbed by keyboardist Blue Weaver using a then state-of-the-art ARP 2600, which producer Arif Mardin had brought in for the recording of the Main Course album.

[9] After hearing "Jive Talkin'", Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, and co-producer Richard Dashut built up the song "Second Hand News" (released on the band's Rumours in 1977) with four audio tracks of electric guitar and the use of chair percussion to evoke Celtic rock.

[10] Upon its release to radio stations, the single was delivered in a plain white cover, with no immediate indication of what the song's name was or who sang it.

It was the second time in the band's career that this strategy had been employed to get airplay for their music, after a similar tactic had popularised their debut US single "New York Mining Disaster 1941" in 1967.

"[11] The original studio version was included on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, as it was used in a scene that was cut from the final film.

In 1987, "Jive Talkin'" was covered by Boogie Box High, a musical project of Andros Georgiou's that featured collaborators such as George Michael and Haircut One Hundred's Nick Heyward.