<Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Billy Austin, Louis Jordan </Td> </Tr> <P> "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" recorded October 4, 1943, is a Louis Jordan song, released as the B - side of a single with "G.I. Jive". "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby" which reached No. 1 on the US folk / country charts . The Louis Jordan recording also peaked at number two for three weeks on the pop chart and peaked at number three on the R&B charts . This was Jordan's second and last country chart No. 1, and the last No. 1 country chart topper for an African American artist until Charley Pride scored his first No. 1, All I Have to Offer You (Is Me) on August 9, 1969 . </P> <P> It was co-written by Jordan and Billy Austin . Austin (March 6, 1896--July 24, 1964) was a songwriter and author, born in Denver, Colorado . The phrase "is you is or is you ain't" is dialect, apparently first recorded in a 1921 story by Octavus Roy Cohen, a Jewish writer from South Carolina who wrote humorous black dialect fiction . Glenn Miller recorded this song on a radio broadcast from Europe during World War II . </P> <P> Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters recorded the song on June 30, 1944 for Decca Records and it too reached the No. 2 spot in the Billboard charts during a 12 - week stay . </P>

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