"Some of These Days" is a popular song, written and composed by Shelton Brooks, published in 1910, and associated with the performer Sophie Tucker. Shelton Brooks and "Some of These Days" was brought to Sophie Tucker's attention in 1910 by her maid, who insisted she meet Brooks and hear the song Tucker instantly recognized its hit potential, performed, and recorded many versions throughout the years, and eventually it became her signature song—including landing movie appearances to perform it. "Some of These Days" has been recorded by many other artists. Shelton Brooks renewed the copyright in 1937 and then the copyright was assigned to Jerry Vogel Music Company.

Shelton Brooks was a Canadian-born African American composer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century, including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball". His family moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1901 and that was where Brooks first made a name for himself in music and comedy. While he never learned to read music, his works were highly sought after for their brash style, which contrasted the previous restrictive styles of Victorian era music. He starred in several 1920s musical comedies. He appeared in the cast of Lew Leslie's Plantation Revue, which was opened in 1922. After the sudden death of his partner Florence Mills in 1927, he stopped appearing in stage shows and pursued a nightclub act. He had a radio show on the CBS network in the 1930s, and he is also credited as a contributor to the music featured in the 1932 film Harlem Is Heaven. In the 1940s he became a regular in Ken Murray's "Blackouts", a long-running salute to burlesque that played in both New York and Los Angeles, California. Brooks sang and provided piano accompaniments on records with vocalists Ethel Waters and Sara Martin. Brooks' works include "Some of These Days", "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball", "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone", "Every Day", "Somewhere in France", "Swing That Thing", "That Man of Mine", and "There'll Come a Time". He also composed "Honey Gal, You Ain’t Talkin' to Me" and "If I Were a Bee and You Were a Red, Red Rose".

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