Ray Henderson and Lew Brown, the songwriting team that were responsible for "Black Bottom" and "Birth of the Blues", wrote this song in 1923. It wasn't a huge hit, not by their later standards anyway, but Dave Kaplan
thought well enough of it to record it for Edison with his own "house band" on June 12th of that year. The arrangement takes a few interesting twists and turns, incorporating that new thing called "syncopation," and makes
a delightful record out of it. The record from which this was sampled had been played with the wrong needle once, so there were damaged grooves throughout the record surface, but editing the good pieces together with some
judicious splicing over the top has made for a very nice sample - it will certainly do until I can find a better copy.
