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"It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)" is a 1942 jazz and pop song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The song was released as an RCA 78 single by Glenn Miller in 1944. Woody Herman also released the song as a single and as a V-Disc. ==Background== Based on the original 1929 song Jam Don't Shake by Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon. The music for Glen Miller's version was written by J.C. Chummy MacGregor and George "The Fox" Williams and the lyrics by Sunny Skylar. George Williams also arranged the song. A version was also recorded by the Army Air Force band under Glenn Miller. Sheet music was published in the U.S. by Mutual Music Society, Inc., New York, N.Y. In the UK, the sheet music was published by Chappell & Co., Ltd., London. The 1944 Woody Herman recording featured the additional lyrics written by Sunny Skylar and sung by Woody Herman and Frances Wayne. The song was first recorded on July 15, 1942 by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra at Victor Studios, Chicago, Illinois, in a Wednesday session that lasted from 11:00 am to 3:15 pm in one take. The 1942 lyrics to the song as recorded by Glenn Miller were: "It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that / It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that / Oh Mama, you're so big and fat!" The Glenn Miller civilian band played the same arrangement that was performed at least twice, available on a Victor 78 recording, Victor 20-1546-A, recorded July 15, 1942.〔(A Jazz Anthology. )〕 There is also a version taken from a radio remote broadcast from September 15, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts and later re-released by RCA Victor on LPT 6700. "It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)" was the first song performed on the October 16, 1943 ''I Sustain the Wings'' radio program with the Army Air Force Band.〔(''I Sustain the Wings'', October 16, 1943. )〕 The 78 single, Victor 20-1546, reached number twelve on the ''Billboard'' charts in January, 1944, where it stayed for eight weeks on the charts.〔(Song artist 6 - Glenn Miller. ).〕 Moreover, the record was a crossover hit, reaching number two on the ''Billboard'' 'Harlem' Hit Parade Chart on February 19, 1944, the then equivalent of the later R&B chart, and number sixteen on the ''Billboard'' Juke Box Chart. An ad for the RCA Victor release appeared in the December 11, 1943 ''Billboard magazine.〔(''Billboard'', December 11, 1943, p. 67. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake like That)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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