"Darktown Strutters' Ball" is a popular song by Shelton Brooks, published in 1917.

The song has been recorded many times and is considered a popular and jazz standard.

Soon after its 1917 publication, "Darktown Strutters' Ball" was included by Sophie Tucker in her Vaudeville routine.

[1] The song was recorded on May 9 that year by the Six Brown Brothers.

More than three million copies of the sheet music were sold.