Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby

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"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" is a 1944 Louis Jordan song, released on a single with "G.I. Jive" which reached #1 on both the Billboard pop and R&B charts.

It was co-written by Jordan and Billy Austin. Austin (March 6, 1896 - July 24, 1964)^[1] was a songwriter and author, born in Denver, Colorado. The phrase "Is you is or is you ain't" is dialect, apparently first recorded in a 1921 story by Octavus Roy Cohen, a Jewish writer from South Carolina who wrote humorous black dialect fiction^[2].

In 1946 the song was sung by Tom in the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Solid Serenade", and featured in the first season finale of the British sitcom Spaced.

The tune has become something of a jazz standard with versions recorded by artists including The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Buster Brown, Renee Olstead, Dinah Washington, Joe Williams, B.B. King and Joe Jackson.

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