"Some of These Days" was written and composed by Shelton Brooks, a Canadian-born songwriter (1886-1975), and published in 1910. It is a jazz standard and popular song with English lyrics. Sophie Tucker adopted it as her signature song, and her first recording of it was made in February 1911.
The 1926 78 rpm version by Ted Lewis and his band sold a million copies and topped the charts for five weeks from 23 November 1926. Other notable versions include those by Coon-Sanders Orchestra (1925), Louis Armstrong (1929), Cab Calloway (1931), Bing Crosby (1932), Ethel Waters, the Mills Brothers, Django Reinhardt and the Quintette du Hot Club de France (1935), Bobby Darin, Brenda Lee and Leon Redbone. The song also appears in films including Lights of New York (1928), Honky Tonk (1929), Scarface and Three on a Match (1932), Broadway Melody of 1938 and Follow the Boys (1944).
