The music was written by Ira Schuster and Jack Little, the lyrics by Joe Young. The song was published in 1932.
The Johnny Long Orchestra had a million seller of the song in 1946. This version was a slight revision of the Long band's 1940 version. Jerry Lee Lewis recorded a version in the winter of 1958/1959. Somethin' Smith and the Redheads re-charted the song in 1956.
This is a simple performance about joy, optimism, the fun and the pleasure of doing something and, of course, this is a song about a shanty in old shanty town.
In 1940, on this day (12 september), Johnny Long's Orchestra recorded this classic.
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