Ain't Misbehavin'

Fats Waller and Harry Brooks wrote the music and Andy Razaf the words for Connie's Hot Chocolates, a 1929 revue at Connie's Inn in Harlem. Mills Music published it that year. The show moved to the Hudson Theatre on Broadway in June 1929 as Hot Chocolates. Louis Armstrong played a trumpet solo on the song from the orchestra pit, and it went over so well that he was brought up on stage to play it.

Six recordings of it were hits in 1929, among them ones by Leo Reisman, Armstrong, Ruth Etting and Waller himself. Waller sang it again in the 1943 film Stormy Weather, and in 1978 it gave its name to a Broadway revue of his songs.