Al Jolson - "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" (1919)

You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet
Words and Music by Al Jolson, Gus Kahn and Bud De Sylva
Performed by Al Jolson
Recorded September 22, 1919
Columbia A2836

For those familiar with "The Jazz Singer" (1927), Al Jolson's first spoken dialog in the first sound film was "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin'! Do you wanna hear 'Toot, Toot, Tootsie!'?" Although it is believed that he ad-libbed this in the film, it was a phrase that was a known Jolson tag line often repeated in his stage act for many years. The song "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" was written for the Broadway musical play, "Sinbad" which had a very successful run during 1918 and 1919. It was in this musical that Jolson introduced George Gershwin's "Swanee."