Your Mother's Son-In-Law

"Your Mother's Son-In-Law" is a song written by Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner that was recorded by Billie Holiday with a band led by Benny Goodman on 27 November 1933.

[3] Holiday was also intimidated by the presence of the famous vaudevillian Buck Washington who played the piano on the recording.

[4] The song was recorded in a key that Holiday was uncomfortable with and at a faster pace than she wanted at Goodman's behest.

[3] In his book Texan Jazz, Dave Oliphant noted that on the song Holiday was already using her noted "quavering drop" at the end of words which was possibly adapted from the trumpet stylings of Louis Armstrong and began words with a "gruffness" to lend her vocal lines forcefulness and personality.

[5] Oliphant highlights Jack Teagarden's trombone solo on the song, noting that it shares with Holiday's vocal "some of the same exuberance in the face of the wistful and (even inappropriate lyrics)".