Ain't She Sweet

Is not She Sweet is a pop and jazz standard from the year 1927. It was written by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen ( lyrics ) during the Tin Pan Alley - phase and known in Germany in the version of the Beatles.

Genesis

Milton Ager (1893-1979) was a professional music composer, his first works for copyright protection filed ( Rockaway Hunt) in 1915. After his military service, he got a job in 1918 at a music publisher Leo Feist. In August 1922, Ager began a partnership with composer Jack Yellen ( 1892-1991 ), which they ended 1930. In 1927 she delivered from five successful compositions; the most successful of these was not She Sweet as Charleston. Ager was inspired when simple text by his daughter Shana Alexander. The copyright lay with the music publisher Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc. ( Warner Brothers).

Original recording

The original is often attributed in the literature Ben Bernie; based on the recording data, however, turns out to Lou Gold & His Melody Men as the original artist of the song. His recording is from the January 17, 1927 ( # 5033 Silvertone ), but neither in the charts came like a second recording as Lou Gold & His Orchestra for Perfect Records (# 14777 ) on 21 February 1927 Scrappy Lambert ( vocals).

Cover versions

Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra had great success with the song. His picture was taken ten days after Lou Gold, on January 27, 1927 It was pressed on the B- side (A - side: I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover; Brunswick # 3444 ). . The B-side turned out to be successful; It reached number one in the pop charts and kept it for four weeks. This was an early example that a B-side was able to place independent of the A-side in the charts and this section even better.

Still in the first half of 1927 appeared a number of other cover versions. Harry Richman was only a day later than Bernie's orchestra in the studio, as his version was recorded on 28 January 1927. Nat Shilkrets orchestra followed on March 10, 1927, only five days later, Gene Austin, who reached his incurred on March 15, 1927 version of Rank 4 in the charts. The piano solo by Frank Banta from April 15, 1927 ( # 20610 Victor ) had no charts resonance, Richard M. Jones 's Jazz Wizards were on May 6, before 1927 the microphones. Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys followed with a medley (Mississippi Mud ) in the studio on June 20, 1927, the Brussels Jazz Band Charles Remue & His New Stompers adopted its version on July 28, 1927 in London.

Already in the original version, the German version was entitled I'm fine recorded with tenor Max Kuttner and the Jazz Symphony Orchestra in October 1927. On May 13, 1927 stock market crash in Berlin was quite shocked Germany (see Black Thursday ). The encouraging German text was referring to the stock market crisis: " I'm fine, I do not lose heart if I have money ' or 'm broke, I'm fine ." Jazz versions created by Bill Coleman, Benny Carter, Tommy Dorsey, the Dukes of Dixieland, Jimmy Lunceford, Meade Lux Lewis, Ben Webster or Erroll Garner. Frank Sinatra played a the piece in 1962.

The first rock-' n'- roll- interpretation comes from Gene Vincent, and is included on his first album Blue Jean Bop, published on August 13, 1956. Overall Cover Info lists 44 versions of the title on.

The Beatles version

The Beatles recorded their rock ' n' roll version in which they are oriented in the recording of Gene Vincent in 1956, either in the Friedrich- Ebert-Halle, or on June 24, 1961 on June 22, 1961 Studio Rahlstedt ( Rahlau 128, Hamburg- Darmstadt) in the occupation of John Lennon (vocals and rhythm guitar), Paul McCartney ( bass guitar ), George Harrison ( lead guitar ) and Pete Best (drums) under the direction of producer Bert Kaempfert. In the UK the song was released only on 29 May 1964. Tony Sheridan was not involved in the uptake, Stuart Sutcliffe left the Beatles in June 1961. During all previous Polydor Singles from Hamburg missed the UK charts, reaching the Beatles version of Is not She Sweet Rank 29 of the New Musical Express charts.

In the U.S. Atco Records brought the Beatles version on 6 July 1964 the market which penetrated up to rank 19 on the Billboard charts. Both versions have been associated with the attempt to market to participate as a free rider on the long running success of the Beatles record, but this failed.