"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" is a 1937 jazz standard.
It was written by Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn and Bronisław Kaper especially for Ivie Anderson, who performed it in the Marx Brothers' 1937 film A Day at the Races, the tune was also used for the opening theme.
The authors (European immigrants from Poland, Germany, and Austria) were likely influenced by a traditional Negro spiritual "All God's Chillun Got Wings"[1] alternately called "All God's Children Got Shoes" which affirms that all God's children have shoes.
[2] Miles Davis's composition "Little Willie Leaps" and “Reets and I” by Benny Harris are based on the chord changes of the song.
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