Bert Lewis (of Club Kentucky) - If My Baby Cooks (as Good as She Looks)
Published 2022-02-06
Performed by Bert Lewis (of Club Kentucky)
Gennett 3399
Originally recorded October 14, 1926
I have very little information about Bert Lewis. He worked as master of ceremonies at Club Kentucky in New York City, where both Duke Ellington and Fats Waller performed in the early-to mid-twenties.
Jack Carroll and Irving Kahal wrote "If My Baby Cooks (as Good as She Looks)" in 1926. I don't know of anything else that Carroll wrote. With other songwriters Kahal co-wrote "I Can Dream, Can't I?"; "I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain"; "I'll Be Seeing You"; "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella"; "Moonlight Saving Time"; "The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful"; "Wedding Bells Are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine"; and "When I Take My Sugar to Tea".
"If My Baby Cooks (as Good as She Looks)" was also recorded by Phillips and Moore, Harry Reser, Bob Thomas and Billy West, Billy Jones and Ernest Hare (and also by Billy Jones as a soloist), Arthur Brown, Billy Harper, Tommy Christian and The Roving Romeos.