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.[2] 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 No.1, 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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_You_Is_or_Is_You_Ain%27t_My_Baby
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