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When My Sugar Walks Down the Street

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According to H. Allen Smith, Austin complained that Shilkret recommended that it be sung primarily by Aileen Stanley, with Austin singing little more than "tweet-tweet-tweet" (see). The original recording is commercially available on CD, and in the actual recording, stars Stanley and Shilkret, with
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It was Austin who demonstrated the song when Mills Music presented it to Victor for recording. Shilkret liked Austin's voice and paired
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his orchestra, are featured for 60 seconds and 70 seconds, respectively, and the unknown Austin for 30 seconds.
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at the end of 1928) made the first major recording of the song in January 1925. In his autobiography,
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Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
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as Victor's Director of Light Music, described the events leading to the recording:
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When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)
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Shilkret, Nathaniel, ed. Niel Shell and Barbara Shilkret,
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Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business
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Index

Song
Gene Austin
Songwriter(s)
Gene Austin
Jimmy McHugh
Irving Mills
Gene Austin
Jimmy McHugh
Irving Mills
Victor Talking Machine Company
RCA
RCA Victor
Nathaniel Shilkret
Edward T. King
Aileen Stanley
Duke Ellington
Nat King Cole
Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love
The Ink Spots
Hot Lips Page
Johnny Mathis
The Four Freshmen
Bix Beiderbecke
Red Nichols
Ella Fitzgerald
Ralph Marterie
Sy Oliver
Wolverines Orchestra
A Star Is Born

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