- Style
- Jazz
- Tradition
- Jazz standard
- Form
- AABA, 32 bars
- Key
- E♭
- Level
- 5
- Played on
- Voice
In the public domain. Source
History
Eubie Blake wrote the music and Andy Razaf the words for Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930, where Minto Cato introduced it. Shapiro, Bernstein published it that year. The show ran for only 57 performances.
Louis Armstrong's 1930 record, with Lionel Hampton, is usually called the first jazz record with vibraphone. Benny Goodman played it with Hampton and Charlie Christian in 1939, and Sonny Dunham made a high trumpet feature of it with the Casa Loma Orchestra.