Gonna Be a Top Ten: I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (#10)

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How about that! I have new hearing aids! Now I can ignore everything that everyone says in a high-tech way! I can hear this song very well, as it’s the first song in the top ten of this month’s list of songs with “gonna” in the title. Again, a big shout out to @JudyEv for the suggestion! Here’s today’s song. #10: I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Fats Waller You talk about hard decisions? I almost used the 2012 Paul McCartney rendition! He did an album of old jazz and pop standards, and wow did he knock this song out of the park! In the end, I had to go back to 1935 and the version that made this song popular: by Mr. Thomas Wright Waller. I can explain Fats Waller’s popularity very easily: in 1936 there was an ad in the Knoxville, Tennessee newspaper for a concert Waller was having. A couple of days after the first announcement appeared it started to include a banner that said, “For colored audiences.” I wonder if they made the whites sit in the balcony if they did get to attend. Nobody cared that Fats was African-American. They just loved his music. And I still do. I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter Written by Fred E. Ahlert and Joe Young Recorded by Fats Waller Released as a single, 1935 It came from you: