[1] It was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence.
Having become a jazz standard, it was played by Louis Armstrong, the Nat King Cole Trio, Dave Brubeck, Earl Hines, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, James Booker, Count Basie, and Lester Young.
The song was recorded by Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby (January 21, 1946, with Lionel Hampton),[3] Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Brenda Lee (1961), Frankie Laine, Keely Smith, Nat King Cole, Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers (a No.
[9] It was also used in the fourteenth episode of the third season of Cheers,[10] in 1985,[11] where several characters each sing part of the song one after the other, as if by contagion, after walking past each other.
The song was also used on the series finale of Perry Mason (2023), as the protagonist begins a short jail term for withholding evidence.