[1] It was introduced by Walter Catlett in the Broadway musical Lady, Be Good!
written by Guy Bolton, Fred Thompson, and the Gershwin brothers and starring Fred and Adele Astaire.
Recordings in 1925 were by Paul Whiteman, Carl Fenton, and Cliff Edwards.
[2] A 1947 recording of the song became a hit for Ella Fitzgerald, notable for her scat solo.
For her album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959), it was sung as a ballad arranged by Nelson Riddle.