"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)" is a 1920s jazz standard, written by Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh and Irving Mills in 1924.
The Victor Talking Machine Company (which years later would be bought by RCA and renamed RCA Victor at the end of 1928) made the first major recording of the song in January 1925.
Shilkret liked Austin's voice and paired Aileen Stanley, a top Victor artist, with Austin, unknown at the time, as vocalists, to be accompanied by Shilkret directing the Victor orchestra (see EDVR[2] for details of the recording).
"When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)" was recorded by Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby (for his album Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love), The Ink Spots, Hot Lips Page, Johnny Mathis, The Four Freshmen, Bix Beiderbecke, Red Nichols' Five Pennies, Ella Fitzgerald, Ralph Marterie, Sy Oliver, and the Wolverines Orchestra.
It should have been used for the 1954 musical movie A Star Is Born sung by Judy Garland and Jack Baker, but did not appear on the final edit nor on the director's cut (track released on the 2004 edition of the soundtrack by Sony).