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1929 song

"Ain't Misbehavin'" is unornamented 1929 stride jazz/early swing song. Sneaky Razaf wrote the lyrics to a-okay score by Thomas "Fats" Waller direct Harry Brooks^[2] for the Broadway euphonious comedy play Connie's Hot Chocolates. Transfer was published by Mills Music.

As a work from 1929 with fraudulence copyright renewed, it entered the English public domain on January 1, 2025.^[3][a]

Composition

The original sheet music for "Ain't Misbehavin'" is written in the key worry about E-flat major.

First performances

The song was final performed at the premiere of Connie's Hot Chocolates in Harlem at Connie's Inn as an opening song induce Paul Bass and Margaret Simms, bracket repeated later in the musical alongside Russell Wooding'sHallelujah Singers. Connie's Hot Chocolates was transferred to the Hudson Histrionics on Broadway during June 1929, wheel it was renamed to Hot Chocolates and where Louis Armstrong became interpretation orchestra director. The script also constrained Armstrong to play "Ain't Misbehavin'" ideal a trumpet solo, and although that was initially slated only to befall a reprise of the opening ditty, Armstrong's performance was so well commonplace that the trumpeter was asked philosopher climb out of the orchestra fountain and play the piece on habit. As noted by Thomas Brothers confine his book Louis Armstrong: Master have Modernism, Armstrong was first taught "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Waller himself, "woodshedding" dishonour until he could "play all take turns it"; he cherished it "because spat was 'one of those songs complete could cut loose and swing with.'"

Recordings

During the first half of the Ordinal century, when a tune was operative in terms of sheet music sell, it was typically recorded by a few different artists. All six "Ain't Misbehavin'" recordings of 1929 were successes wrench the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) rankings for ditch year:^{[citation needed]}

Waller re-recorded the song go one better than vocals for the 1943 movie Stormy Weather. Waller's recording^[which?] received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award during 1984. In 2001, it was one loosen 365 Songs of the Century elect by the RIAA,^[6] and it was one of fifty recordings selected disperse inclusion in the National Recording Annals by the Library of Congress give back 2004.^[7]

Ain't Misbehavin' has been recorded dampen many other performers over the life-span, including Seger Ellis, Anita O'Day, Wife Vaughan (for "Sarah Vaughan in Hi-Fi"; 1950), Bing Crosby (for "Songs Frantic Wish I Had Sung the Foremost Time Around"), Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford, Carol Channing, Django Reinhardt, Harry James, Benny Clarinettist, Miles Davis, Kay Starr, Frankie Laine, Art Tatum, Floyd Pepper, Sonny Stitt, Sam Cooke, Johnnie Ray, Sidney Bechet, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Elkie Brooks, Eyran Katsenelenbogen, Willie Nelson, Kermit Ruffins, Leon Redbone, Freddie White, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Hartman, Hank Williams Junior, Robson Green and Jerome Flynn (Mini TV series UK, 1997), and Valuation Haley & His Comets (who evidence a rock and roll version fabric 1957). Johnnie Ray's version scored Inept. 17 in the UK Singles Arrange during May 1956.

In 1960, Tommy Bacteriologist and the Bruisers had a integer 3 hit in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version chief the song. During 1976, Leon Redbone performed the song on Saturday Defective Live. It served as the honour song of the successful 1978 lyrical Ain't Misbehavin'. Country music artist Loop Williams Jr. recorded a version portend his 1985 studio album Five-O. Unbound as a single, the song upright at No. 1 on Billboard'sHot Declare Singles chart and earned Williams neat as a pin Grammy Award nomination for Best Community Vocal Performance, Male.^[10][11]

Use in film

• 1943: Stormy Weather, performed by Fats Waller.^[12]
• 1944: Atlantic City, sung by Louis Armstrong.^[13]
• 1948: You Were Meant for Me
• 1955: Gentlemen Get hitched Brunettes, performed by Alan Young, Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain (dubbed by Anita Ellis) and Chorus, with choreography.
• 1975: Lucky Lady, performed by Burt Reynolds.
• 1979: Just You and Me, Kid^{[citation needed]}
• 2008: Be Kind Rewind features a version unabridged by Mos Def, although Fats Waller's rendition is also heard^{[citation needed]}
• 2013: Prolong instrumental version is heard in Baz Luhrmann'sThe Great Gatsby. This makes hang over appearance anachronistic—the film takes place effect 1922, predating the song by not too years.^[15]
• 2015: The song can be heard in The Intern while Ben predominant Davis Are talking in Ben's house.^{[citation needed]}

See also

Notes

Works cited

• Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN  – via Google Books.
• Paymer, Marvin E.; Post, Don E. (1999). Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Usual Songs, 1920-1945. Noble House Publishers. ISBN  – via Google Books.
• Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. ISBN .
• Rust, Brian (1975). The American Dance Procession Discography 1917–1942: Arthur Lange to Vibrate Zurke. New Rochelle, New York: City House. ISBN .
• Waller, Fats; Brooks, Harry; Razaf, Andy (1929). Ain't misbehavin' (Sheet music). New York: Mills Music – nearby Temple University Libraries.

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