[Dixielandjazz] "Is you is or is you ain't my baby"

dwlit at cpcug.org dwlit at cpcug.org
Tue Aug 7 07:58:51 PDT 2007


> Bill Haesler wrote, regarding " Is You Is Or Is You Ain't..."
> <<I wonder how often that one gets aired in the US  nowadays?>>
>

Louis Jordan's "Is you is...", "Choo choo ch'booger" and "Ain't nobody
here but us chickens" are often played by current swing bands. "Knock me a
kiss" is also revived with some regularity. The last 3 are in my "30s-40s
ake Book". Don't know why I never made a sheet for "Is you is..."

--Sheik




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