"Rootie Tootie" is a single from Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart, the Louisville-based bandleader and his songwriting partner who became two of Nashville's most commercially important figures through their compositions for other artists and their own recording career at RCA Victor, known primarily to the wider audience through their co-authorship of "Tennessee Waltz." King plays accordion and leads the ensemble; Stewart plays fiddle and sings. The single presents the novelty and dance-oriented material that King and Stewart recorded alongside their better-known sentimental and patriotic compositions — the upbeat, bouncy side of their Western Swing-influenced country approach that was as much a part of their performing identity as the melancholy ballad tradition that produced their most enduring compositions.