"Organ Grinder's Swing" is a song composed by Will Hudson, with lyrics credited to Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills (Mills was the publisher), published in 1936.
[2] Ella Fitzgerald recorded the song in November 1936 with her Savoy Eight, and recorded it for a second time with the Count Basie Orchestra for her last album with Basie, 1979's A Classy Pair.
Other contemporary versions were recorded by Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt and the Mills Brothers.
Vibraphonist Milt Jackson recorded it again in 1976 live at the Kosei Nenkin, Tokyo, with Teddy Edwards, Cedar Walton, Ray Brown and Billy Higgins.
In the 1935 film The Littlest Rebel, Shirley Temple and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson tap dance to the tune in order to get enough money for train fare to Washington, DC.