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Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' 1929

"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 song written by Fats Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf. Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later re-recorded the song for the 1943 film Stormy Weather. In a 1941 interview with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Fats claimed the song was written while "lodging" in alimony prison, and that is why he was not "misbehaving".

There were six other recordings of the song released in 1929, including versions by Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, Gene Austin, and Leo Reisman and His Orchestra. It was also used in the off-Broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolates.

It has been recorded by many other performers over the years, including Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Django Reinhardt, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, and Willie Nelson, to name a few.

The original 1929 recording of "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Fats Waller received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1984, and it was one of fifty recordings selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004.

"Ain't Misbehavin'" received a total of 79,6% yes votes!

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Stormy Weather (Andrew L. Stone, 1943)  

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Pianist/composer/singer Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943)

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1941 - Fats Waller - Shrine Auditorium - Los Angeles

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Theresa Bernstein, Hot Chocolates, ca. 1919-1928, oil on canvas.

Theresa Bernstein often painted urban scenes and everyday people at play throughout the 1920s, finding inspiration in New York’s music venues. The Hot Chocolates jazz revue started in a Harlem nightclub, Connie’s Inn, and then moved to Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Over the course of its production, Hot Chocolates featured notable jazz performers Fats Waller, Edith Wilson, Cab Calloway, and Louis Armstrong in his Broadway debut. This painting’s lively composition and rich colors capture the syncopated elements of jazz, as well as the boisterous mood of the show itself. As Harlem Renaissance gossip columnist Geraldyn Dismond wrote in 1929, some parts of Hot Chocolates could ​“make even a flapper blush.”

Text & photo: Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Nell Carter, Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, Charlayne Woodard, and André De Shields perform "Black and Blue" in Ain't Misbehavin' (1982).

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Fats Waller † December 15, 1943

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BLUE BECAUSE OF YOU by Fats Waller 1935

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Bonne soirée 💜🎺 💙

Fats Waller & Ada Brown 🎶 That Ain't Right

(🎬 Stormy Weather)

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Fats Waller was jazz musician, composer, performer, an actor, and he had a memorable “joie de vivre”. Behind the piano, he could work out songs at a very fast pace. He must have composed 400 hundred or more. He sold many of them when he had financial difficulties. An imposing figure with facial expressions while he was singing. He played what could be an earlier version of the jazz we know today called Stride style. It involves playing a syncopated rhythm with your left hand, included the bass, while your right hand is improvising and playing the melody. We owe him songs such as “Ain’t Misbehavin” and “Honeysuckle rose”. He was extremely popular during his short life, he died at 39 of pneumonia. I hope some day, we’ll have a movie about his life and his accomplishment. Jazz owes him a great deal.

Fats Waller était un musicien de jazz, compositeur, homme de scène, acteur et il avait une joie de vivre légendaire. Derrière son piano, il pouvait composer des chansons à un rythme très rapide. Il doit en avoir composé 400 ou plus. Il en vendait plusieurs quand il avait des difficultés financières. Un homme imposant physiquement, il aimait faire des expressions faciales quand il chantait. Il jouait ce qu’on pourrait appeler une version précédente du jazz contemporain appelé Stride style. Il s’agit de garder le rythme de la main gauche, incluant la bass , pendant que la main droite s’occupe de l’improvisation et de la mélodie. Nous lui devons des chansons comme « Ain’t Misbehavin », « Honeysuckle Rose ». Il fut extrêmement populaire durant sa vie courte, il est mort à 39 ans de pneumonie. J’espère qu’un jour, on aura droit à un film sur sa vie et ses accomplissements. Le jazz lui doit beaucoup.

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Need a Alastor x Reader fic based on the song "Ain't Misbehavin' " by Fats Waller

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Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943)

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Fats Waller (Stormy Weather, 1943)

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El año pasado, cuando todavía tomaba clases guitarra, descubrí, por casualidad, que uno de los motivos de una de las composiciones de Jhonny Greenwood -"House of woodcock"- para la película The Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson), estuvo antes presente en las manos y oídos de Fats Waller en su London Suite (Chelsea, minuto 2:03-2:06).

Continúa sorprendiéndome no haber encontrado comentarios al respecto.

Hasta ahora, con la única persona que compartí esta curiosidad fue con, en ese entonces, mi profesor de guitarra.

En fin, mi humilde aporte.

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