"Ain't She Sweet" is a Tin Pan Alley standard with music by Milton Ager and lyrics by Jack Yellen, published on 17 January 1927 by Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc. Ager wrote it for his daughter, Shana Ager, later Shana Alexander. Both writers were elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The song was popular in the first half of the 20th century and is typical of the Roaring Twenties. The original recording was made in 1927 by Lou Gold with The Melody Man, with a vocal chorus by Murray Amster. The first commercial hit was Gene Austin's Victor recording, released as a single on 13 May 1927, with "What Do I Care What Somebody Said" on the B-side. The song was used in films including Duck Soup (1933), Strangers on a Train (1951) and Midnight in Paris (2011), and in television episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies and All in the Family. The Beatles recorded it in Hamburg in June 1961 with Tony Sheridan, with John Lennon on lead vocal. That version was released in 1964 and reached No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100. The group had known the song from Gene Vincent's 1956 recording. Many other artists have recorded it, including Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra and Gene Vincent.
