"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" | |
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Single by Louis Jordan | |
A-side | "G.I. Jive" |
Released | 1944 |
Genre | Rhythm and blues |
Label | Decca |
"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby" is a 1944 Louis Jordan song, released as the B-side of single with "G.I. Jive". "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" reached #1 on the US folk/country charts.[1] The Louis Jordan recording also peaked at number two for three weeks on the pop chart and peaked at number three on the R&B charts.[2]
It was co-written by Jordan and Billy Austin. Austin (March 6, 1896 - July 24, 1964) 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. Glenn Miller recorded this song on a radio broadcast from Europe during World War II.
Preceded by "Straighten Up and Fly Right" by King Cole Trio |
Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number one single by Louis Jordan July 29, 1944 - August 26, 1944 (five weeks) |
Succeeded by "Soldiers Last Letter" by Ernest Tubb |