There Must Be Somebody Else is a 1927

1927 in music

-Events:* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* April 21 - Electric re-recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, with Gershwin at the piano....

 American

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 popular song

Popular music

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 written by Maceo Pinkard

Maceo Pinkard

Maceo Pinkard was an American composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Among his compositions is "Sweet Georgia Brown", a popular standard for decades after its composition and famous as the theme of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.Pinkard was inducted in the National Academy of...

, Archie Gottler

Archie Gottler

Archie Gottler was an American composer, screenwriter, actor and film director. Gottler is known for being the director of the 1934 film "Woman Haters", the first of a series of 190 Three Stooges comedy shorts for Columbia Pictures.-External links:...

 and Sidney Clare

Sidney Clare

Sidney Clare was an American comedian, dancer and composer. His best known songs include "On the Good Ship Lollipop" , "You’re My Thrill" , and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" .In 1929, Clare wrote his...

. It is considered a jazz standard

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 and has been recorded many times.

The song was a hit when first published, and was covered by numerous artists including Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra

Ben Bernie

Ben Bernie , born Bernard Anzelevitz, was an American jazz violinist and radio personality, often introduced as The Old Maestro. He was noted for his showmanship and memorable bits of snappy dialogue....

, Annette Hanshaw

Annette Hanshaw

Catherine Annette Hanshaw was born at her parents' residence in New York City on October 18, 1901. [Ed. While Annette sometimes gave her birth date as 1910, nephew Frank W. Hanshaw III confirms 1901 as the date on Annette's birth certificate.]-Biography:...

, Ben Selvin & His Orchestra

Ben Selvin

Benjamin B. Selvin , son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music....

 and Belle Baker

Belle Baker

Belle Baker was an American singer and actress. Popular throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Baker introduced a number of ragtime and torch songs including Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies" and "My Yiddishe Mama". She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and introduced a number of Irving Berlin's songs...

. It was also featured in a Vitaphone

Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

 short film, Stories in Song (1927) as one of four songs performed by Adele Rowland. The song was part of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....

's repertoire. Barbara Rosene

Barbara Rosene

Barbara Rosene is an American jazz singer.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rosene grew up hearing jazz and big band music from her father's record collection...

included the song as a track in the 2007 album It Was Only a Sun Shower.