IT MUST BE JELLY ('CAUSE JAM DON'T SHAKE LIKE THAT)
(George Williams / Chummy MacGregor - Additional Lyrics: Sunny Skylar)

**Probably based "You Know Jam Don't Shake", a 1940 recording by 
Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon (see elsewhere on International Lyrics Playground)


Gleen Miller & His Orch. (vocal: The Modernaires) - 1942
Woody Herman & His Orch. (vocal: Herman & Frances Wayne) - 1944
Johnny Long & His Orch. - 1944

Also recorded by: Harry James; Back Alley Hoodoo; Frankie Ford.







As recorded by GLENN MILLER, July 15, 1942, Chicago, Illinois, 
it was virtually an instrumental with just the one opening verse:


It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that
It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that
Oh, mama, you're so big and fat


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As recorded by WOODY HERMAN and FRANCES WAYNE,
with added lyrics by Sunny Skylar:


BAND:
It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that
It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that
Oh, mama, you're so big and fat

HERMAN:
Must be Monday, I feel low down and blue
Said it must be Monday, I feel low down and blue
Baby, see what you can do

WAYNE:
Lost my sugar on Sugar Hill
Lost my sugar way on Sugar Hill
Sugar, that's a bitter pill

Must be Shorty 'cause Joe's got hair
Said must be Shorty 'cause Joe's got hair
Say, Shorty, put your rug up there

HERMAN:
You must be Mary 'cause Tilly's big and fat
You must be Mary 'cause Tilly's big and fat
Mary, Mary, don't you get like that, don't you do it

(Instrumental Break)

HERMAN:
Must be jelly 'cause it ain't like jam
It ain't jam, I don't know what it am
Sure looks like jelly to me






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2015)