Poacher wrote: 
Wow, as in it's older than I am and never heard it until today... I'm also one of those who has always thought that B.B. King and Dr. John sang the definitive version—now I'm not so sure.  Pretty damn good.  If this is from a 40's recording I'm sure we must thank God at this time for remastering.

(Edit: I'm not saying that God remastered this, just saying this may be the best 40's era reproduction that I've personally ever heard)

69 years old. Wow.

Though virtually unknown, Louis is the true granddaddy of Rock & Roll.

 JonnySteele wrote: 
Yes — Dinah's version is the one I have too — for me on the Verve Remixed album (vol 1).  This is nice too, though!

ummm?
Who won the war?

Wow...  this is beautiful...  love it...

 

My father-in-law who was a really cool WWII Marine vet, used to todder around singing the chorus from this song. It was clearly a trip down memory lane in some way we could never access- I was happy for him regardless.

I love the Tom and Jerry version of this :o)

 Mugro wrote: 
Mugro:

There are times when you can't get no satisfaction. I guess this is one. ;-) 

Good to know that I am not the only male struggling with the female psyche. 

aw fun with irregular verbs.

This is how I like to remember this song...it is the first song my mother ever taught me and is one of the first I remember  and I would say "I is" after she would sing the verse that asks {"is you is or is you aint my baby"
, goofy, but true, and I will always remember it that way...I cherish it.
betty

has anyone heard Renee Olstead's cover of this song ? she does a smashing job on Summertime as well.....great to see is you is in the mix - definitely a piece of paradise

serendipity_blue wrote:

My son (age 7) has a Tom and Jerry reel he watches again and again and again, and there is indeed a segment in which Tom (the cat) serenades another cat to the tune of this song. Great song, funny segment, and wonderful flashback.

ChardRemains wrote:

I think it is a great song. I was poking fun of those among us that get bound up over things like this. I pride myself in being able to speak in legalese or gutter trash speak depending on the situation.

I can't help but associate this with the old Tom & Jerry cartoons. Which isn't necessarilly a bad thing.

Nice enough song, even if the grammar is appalling.

Mugro wrote:
Sometimes the vernacular says what the grammarian cannot express...

Get over it. Or do you whine as grievously over e e cummings' lack of capital letters?

Mugro wrote:My ninety-three-year-old mother -- a stooped white woman from the upper Midwest of the U.S. -- can and does speak English just fine. I recollect the pointed inquiry, delivered whenever she was looking to get a straight answer out of a wishy-washy subject, say, a quibbling adult or a fibbing child: "is you is or is you ain't?" I never knew where such disjoint phraseology came from, until . . .

Louis Jordan lives on.

Not bad - not fantastic, but not bad!

This one will surely drive the English teachers among us NUTS!!

jpfueler wrote:

This was my introduction to this one. Glad someone else saw it.

Was is you is a little muffled trumpet? That's not very good english. Was you saying?

A completely good-natured bouncy bit of a song.....makes me feel like grinning and tapping my feet.

You know, if they play ALLMAN BROS. next, the playlist will read JORDAN ALLMANs, hmm...

I feel like I am shopping at Pottery Barn. 8-<

Yes, please. Thank you.

Pyro wrote:

Yes. I think he played the villain in the James Bond film OCTOPUSSY, too.

This track is aces.

Wasn't there a Louis Jordan who was a white actor in the 50's? Obviously, this AIN'T him.

I have Dinah Washington's version of this. Her rendition is much more sassy than Jordan's. I like it for that reason. And the cartoon of mice dating is with Dinah's version. At least when I saw it. But Jordan's version is quite smooth. It takes on a much more sincere feeling to it than when Dinah sings it. And of course the mice thing makes hers seem more comical. I think of the cartoon every time I hear it. What route shall exploitation take next? Fortunately I've been introduced to a new "outlook" to this song. I don't see mice in my head. What a great song!