Gee, But You're Swell was written by Abel Baer and Thomas Tobias in 1936, and published by Remick Music Corp. in the same year. 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

One of the first recordings was in 1937, by Chick Webb and his Orchestra with vocal by Louis Jordan. A (very) brief MP3 excerpt can be heard here  (http://www.mp3.com/tracks/895239/dl_streams.html). William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (10 February 1909 - 16 June 1939) was a jazz and swing music drummer and band leader. ... Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 - February 4, 1975) was an African-American jazz and rhythm & blues musician, and one of the few such to sell well to mainstream audiences in the post swing music era. ... MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. ...

The lyrics are: Lyrics are the written words in a song. ...

Gee, but you're swell,

When I say swell,

I mean, you're lovely as well -

When I say lovely,

I mean glorious, too.

I'm mad about you,

You're about the grandest thing

That I ever knew!

You got just what it takes,

And I'll admit,

I get the luckiest breaks;

And I mean lucky,

For what else could it be

When a girl like you loves me?

I mean it, honestly,

Gee, but you're swell!

Gee, But You're Swell was adopted by Australian television performer Graham Kennedy as his theme song for In Melbourne Tonight. Graham Cyril Kennedy (born 15 February 1934) is an Australian television performer. ... In Melbourne Tonight, otherwise known as IMT, was a variety and interview television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 1957 to 1970. ...