(WHAT DID I DO TO BE SO) BLACK AND BLUE

Created on 02/03/2026
Latest update on 02/03/2026

Artist: Louis Armstrong
Author: Fats Waller/Andy Razaf/Harry Brooks
Label: Okeh
Year: 1929

B-side of Ain't Misbehavin', anotheren Fats Waller composition and both fromt revue Connie's Hot Chocolates.

Covers:

1929:

Duke Ellington

1930:

Edith Wilson [who introduced it in Broadway musical Hot Chocolates]

1930:

Ethel Waters

1941:

Jack Teagarden

1947:

Frankie Laine [top 30 US]

1953:

Sidney Bechet

1957:

Dinah Washington

1963:

Lou Rawls

1964:

Pete Fountain

1988:

Carmen McRae

1996:

Pointer Sisters [in Fats Waller musical Ain't Misbehavin'!]

2001:

Kermit Ruffins

2003:

Flat Earth Society

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