It's been said that Fats Waller wrote "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" and sold the rights so now the writers credited are listed as Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields. The first public airing of the song was in Lew Leslie's "International Review" starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence in 1930. The first recording featured Roger Wolfe Kahn and is here edited to include the vocal. Roger's family was so wealthy that their London home had the largest family garden in the city next to that at Buckingham Palace!

Tommy Dorsey topped the American charts with the vocal group The Sentimentalists (sisters Mary, Peggy, Ann and Jean Clark) in 1945 when they recorded "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" for the motion picture "Is Everybody Happy?".