SING, YOU SINNERS

Created on 17/05/2021
Latest update on 16/04/2024

Artist: Lillian Roth
Author: Sam Coslow/W. Franke Harling
Year: 1930

In film Honey. In his Talkartoon series Max Fleischer released a scary cartoon entitled Swing, You Sinners, also in 1930 and using this same melody.

Covers:

1930:

High Hatters [top 10 US]

1930:

Smith Ballew [top 20 US]

1930:

Charleston Chasers

1930:

Harlem Hot Chocolates [alias Duke Ellington's band]

1935:

Valaida Snow [nicknamed Little Louie, queen of the trumpet; Armstrong named her the second best trumpet player in the world]

1935:

Ramblers Dansorkest [vocal: Annie de Reuver]

1950:

Tony Bennett [and in '06 in duet with John Legend]

1950:

Ted Lewis

1951:

Margaret Whiting

1959:

Rosemary Clooney

1962:

Mel Tormé

1997:

Manhattan Transfer

2021:

Maria Muldaur with Tuba Skinny [as Swing, You Sinners, inspired by Valaida Snow; they also cover her Patience & Fortitude]

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