William Benton Overstreet (April 3, 1888[1] – June 23, 1935)[2] was an American songwriter, bandleader and pianist in the early twentieth century.
A prominent bandleader of the period, he also ran a group backing the "Rag Shouters" with singer Estelle Morris in Chicago.
[3] As a songwriter, Overstreet was rated by Langston Hughes as one of the "better poets of jazz".
The song was widely recorded, by Marion Harris, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Bob Wills, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday, and others.
[8] Overstreet was working as a music teacher in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1930,[1] and continued to make recordings as a piano accompanist into the early 1930s.