"Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" is a 1929 song written by Andy Razaf and Don Redman. It was recorded by the Redman-led McKinney's Cotton Pickers on Victor on November 5, 1929, as "Gee, Ain't I Good to You."[2]
Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio recorded the song on November 30, 1943, during a three-hour recording session at C.P. MacGregor Studios in Hollywood. "Straighten Up and Fly Right,"『If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes,』and "Jumpin' at Capitol" were recorded during the same session, produced by Johnny Mercer and engineered by John Palladino.[1] The single peaked at number 20 on the national charts and was the group's final number 1 on the Harlem Hit Parade.[3] The A-side of the song, "I Realize Now" peaked at number 9 on the Harlem Hit Parade. It is usually played in E flat.
^ abCogan, Jim; Clark, William (2003). Temples of Sound: Inside the Great Recording Studios. San Francisco, California, USA: Chronicle Books. p. 17. ISBN0-8118-3394-1.
