- Style
- Jazz
- Tradition
- Jazz standard
- Form
- ABAC, 40 bars
- Keys
- G and F
- Level
- 4
- Played on
- Voice
In the public domain. Source
Music
The 40 bar chorus with its pickup. Usually played as a hot two beat.
120bpm
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Chord chart
History
Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel wrote the music and Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman the words. Ted Lewis introduced it in the Broadway revue The Passing Show of 1923, and Jack Mills published it in 1924. Isham Jones and his Orchestra made the first record on February 22, 1924.
Red Nichols, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers all recorded it between 1928 and 1931.