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Turner Layton and Henry Creamer

Style
Jazz
Tradition
Jazz standard
Form
20 bars
Keys
C and B♭
Level
4
Played on
Voice

In the public domain. Source

Music

The 20 bar chorus. Swing the eighths; bands often play it at double length and fast.

100bpm

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History

Turner Layton wrote the music and Henry Creamer the words, and Broadway Music Corporation published it in 1918. Marion Harris recorded it for Victor on July 22, 1918. The chorus runs only 20 bars, and bands playing it fast often double every note to make 40.

Sophie Tucker and Bessie Smith recorded it in 1927 and Louis Armstrong in 1929. Benny Goodman and Coleman Hawkins both recorded it in 1935, and Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli in 1936. Judy Garland sang it in the 1942 film For Me and My Gal.