Gee, Baby, Ain’t I Good to You is a 1929 jazz standard written by Don Redman and Andy Razaf. It was first recorded by McKinney’s Cotton Pickers on November 5, 1929, with Redman directing, and released that year as Gee, Ain’t I Good to You. Nat King Cole and his King Cole Trio recorded a popular version on November 30, 1943 and released it as a 1944 single produced by Johnny Mercer, with the A-side I Realize Now. The Cole recording helped the group chart nationally, reaching number 20, and it was a Harlem Hit Parade success as well; the tune is usually played in E flat. Over the years the song has been recorded by many artists including Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, and John Scofield, and it remains a widely performed jazz standard appearing on numerous albums and compilations rather than on a single original album.
