On the Sunny Side of the Street

The song has become a jazz standard, it was played by:

• Louis Armstrong
• The Nat King Cole Trio
• Dave Brubeck
• Earl Hines
• Benny Goodman
• Lionel Hampton
• Erroll Garner
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Art Tatum
• Lester Young.[2] The Louis Armstrong version was recorded in the key of C major, but it has been recorded in a range of keys; Ted Lewis recorded it in D major and Ella Fitzgerald in G major.

Other versions of the song were recorded by:

• Layton & Johnstone released the song for Columbia, as the first version in 1930.
• Billie Holiday
• Judy Garland
• Doris Day
• Frankie Laine
• Keely Smith - Politely! (1958).[3]
• Nat King Cole
• Jo Stafford with The Pied Pipers (a No. 17 hit in 1945),[4]
• Frank Sinatra
• Willie Nelson
• Jon Batiste
• Rod Stewart.
• Tommy Dorsey and The Sentimentalists, which achieved chart success in 1945 reaching the No. 16 spot.[5] It arguably the most popular arrangement.
• Bing Crosby (January 21, 1946, with Lionel Hampton),[6]
• Dinah Washington - In the Land of Hi-Fi (1956)[7]
• Brenda Lee - All the Way (1961)[8]
• Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie on their 1963 album Ella and Basie!.[9]
• In 1975, rockband Trapeze covered the song on their self-titled album Trapeze and it was also released as a 7" single but it did not chart.
• James Booker - Junco Partner (1976)[10]

The song was featured in the 1991 film JFK,[11] the 1995 film Father of the Bride Part II, in an episode of the sitcom Frasier[12] and in the fourth episode of the fourth season of Northern Exposure,[13] in 1992.[14] It was also used in the fourteenth episode of the third season of Cheers,[15] in 1985,[16] where several characters each sing part of the song one after the other, as if by contagion, after walking past each other.

• List of 1930s jazz standards

• "On the Sunny Side of the Street" at Jazz Standards