The lyrics were sung by Kay Weber, one of the first female singers of the Big Band Era, and Glenn Miller, who had discovered her.
[5] John McClelland wrote in The Stanford Daily that there was a controversy regarding the appearance of the Dorsey band at a campus concert because Kay Weber would "sing the wrong kind of songs".
He invoked "blue laws" that were used to argue against the performance of the song "Annie's Cousin Fanny" by the band because it was deemed "shady".
In 2000, Mora's Modern Rhythmists Dance Orchestra, a ten-piece ensemble that plays jazz and swing from the 1920s and 1930s, recorded a version which they released on the Mr.
There was also a follow-up song entitled "Since Annie's Cousin Fanny Married Heinie" by Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin which was copyrighted on January 9, 1937, and published by Leeds Music Company in New York.
[6] The members of the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra in 1934 included: Ray McKinley on drums; Skeets Herfurt on tenor sax; Delmar Kaplan on bass; Bobby Van Epps on piano; Roc Hillman on guitar; Don Matteson on trombone; Kay Weber on vocals; Jack Stacey on alto sax; George Thow on trumpet; Tommy Dorsey on trombone; Jimmy Dorsey on sax; and, Glenn Miller on trombone.