Here is another fun Verve Remix Version of Dinah Washingtons classic Is You Is or Is You Aint My Baby. Is You Is Or Is You Aint My Baby is a 1944 Louis Jordan song, released as the B-side of a single with G.I. Jive. Is You Is or Is You Aint 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. This would be Jordans second and last country chart No. 1, and the last No. 1 country chart topper for an African American artist until Charley Pride scored his first number one, All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) in August 9, 1969. 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 aint 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 but Dinah Washingtons version of the song (recorded December 4, 1956 in New York City) is one of the most famous versions available today. Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963), was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as the most popular black female recording artist of the 50s. Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of Queen of the Blues. She is a 1986 inductee of the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:42:24 +0000
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