who wrote is you is or is you ain't my baby lyrics
Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby It was co-written by Jordan and Billy Austin. Austin (March 6, 1896 â€“ 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.
I'm Not the Only One Lyrically, "I'm Not the Only One" talks about infidelity and betrayal in a relationship, where someone decides to stay with a partner they know is cheating on them. In the chorus, Smith admits: "You say I'm crazy/'Cause you don't think I know what you've done/But when you call me baby/I know I'm not the only one".[16] Smith revealed to Lewis Corner that the song was the only one on the album that is not about his life, but a marriage he observed first-hand, where he put himself into the woman's shoes.[15] He added: