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(Victor 19585)
Recorded 1/30/1925 New York, New York.
When my sugar walks down the street (All the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet) (Primary title)
Aileen Stanley (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Gene Austin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Nathaniel Shilkret (conductor)
Gene Austin (lyricist)
Jimmy McHugh (composer)
Irving Mills (composer)
"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)" is a 1920s jazz standard, written by Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills in 1924.
The Victor Talking Machine Company (which years later would be bought by RCA and renamed RCA Victor at the end of 1928) made the first major recording of the song in January 1925. In his autobiography, Nathaniel Shilkret, who was a Victor A&R executive at the time and soon to replace Edward T. King as Victor's Director of Light Music, described the events leading to the recording:
It was Austin who demonstrated the song when Mills Music presented it to Victor for recording. Shilkret liked Austin's voice and paired Aileen Stanley, a top Victor artist, with Austin, unknown at the time, as vocalists, to be accompanied by Shilkret directing the Victor orchestra.
The recording was extremely popular and launched Austin's career.
According to H. Allen Smith, Austin complained that Shilkret recommended that it be sung primarily by Aileen Stanley, with Austin singing little more than "tweet-tweet-tweet".
The actual recording, stars Stanley and Shilkret, with his orchestra, are featured for 60 seconds and 70 seconds, respectively, and the unknown Austin for 30 seconds.
(Victor 19585)
Recorded 1/30/1925 New York, New York.
When my sugar walks down the street (All the little birdies go tweet, tweet, tweet) (Primary title)
Aileen Stanley (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Gene Austin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Nathaniel Shilkret (conductor)
Gene Austin (lyricist)
Jimmy McHugh (composer)
Irving Mills (composer)
"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)" is a 1920s jazz standard, written by Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills in 1924.
The Victor Talking Machine Company (which years later would be bought by RCA and renamed RCA Victor at the end of 1928) made the first major recording of the song in January 1925. In his autobiography, Nathaniel Shilkret, who was a Victor A&R executive at the time and soon to replace Edward T. King as Victor's Director of Light Music, described the events leading to the recording:
It was Austin who demonstrated the song when Mills Music presented it to Victor for recording. Shilkret liked Austin's voice and paired Aileen Stanley, a top Victor artist, with Austin, unknown at the time, as vocalists, to be accompanied by Shilkret directing the Victor orchestra.
The recording was extremely popular and launched Austin's career.
According to H. Allen Smith, Austin complained that Shilkret recommended that it be sung primarily by Aileen Stanley, with Austin singing little more than "tweet-tweet-tweet".
The actual recording, stars Stanley and Shilkret, with his orchestra, are featured for 60 seconds and 70 seconds, respectively, and the unknown Austin for 30 seconds.
