- Style
- Jazz
- Tradition
- Jazz standard
- Form
- 32 bars
- Key
- G
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Voice
In the public domain. Source
History
The tune first came out as "Lookin' for Another Sweetie," credited to Chris Smith and Sterling Grant, and Fats Waller and His Babies recorded it on December 18, 1929. In 1930 Al J. Neiburg gave it new words as "Confessin'," with the music credited to Doc Daugherty and Ellis Reynolds.
Louis Armstrong recorded it in August 1930, bending the melody and adding scat breaks, and he kept it in his act for the rest of his career. Guy Lombardo and Rudy Vallée also recorded it that year, and Django Reinhardt cut it in 1934.