With the stride style he adapted from ragtime, Harlem native Thomas “Fats” Waller became ... written or popularized by Waller during his short, prolific life. Ain’t Misbehavin’ has ...

Daedalus, Vol. 142, No. 4, American Music (Fall 2013), pp. 109-119 (11 pages) Just before he died in 1943, Fats Waller wrote the music for a Broadway book musical with a mostly white cast, the first ...