Prima started pairing the songs in 1945 and the idea was revisited in the famous arrangement in a new, jive-and-jumping style, created by Sam Butera for Prima's 1950s Las Vegas stage show. 'I Ain't Got Nobody' is best known in a form first recorded by Louis Prima in 1956, where it was paired in a medley with another old standard, ' Just a Gigolo'.

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'Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody' medley Louis musicians, both claim that they wrote the first version, words, and music, of 'I Ain't Got Nobody', filed two copyrights in 1911, and published it that same year. copyright, and, later that year, also earned the Warfield-Young copyright. Root & Co., a Chicago publisher (né Frank Kimball Root 1856–1932), acquired the Craig & Co. Spencer Williams' copyright entry from 1916 under a shorter title attributes the composition to Davy Peyton and himself and the lyrics to publisher Roger Graham. The song title is 'I Ain't Got Nobody and Nobody Cares for Me'.

& the M.G.'s, although two covers were recorded for the film as well: a piano solo version by Jean-Michel Bernard, and a Fats Waller-esque version by Mos Def.Ĭhicago and Saint Louis ragtime pianist and blues composer Charles Warfield (1878–1955) claimed to have originally written the song and a copyright dated April 1914 attributes Warfield as the composer, David Young as the lyricist, and Marie Lucas as the arranger. The 2008 film Be Kind Rewind uses the version recorded by Booker T. It was first recorded by Marion Harris and became a perennial standard, recorded many times over the following generations, in styles ranging from pop to jazz to country music. Graham (1885–1938) wrote the lyrics, Spencer Williams composed it, and Roger Graham Music Publishing published it. ' I Ain't Got Nobody' (sometimes referred to as ' I'm So Sad and Lonely' or ' I Ain't Got Nobody Much') is a popular song copyrighted in 1915.

Im sad and lonely