Al's star was rising, however briefly, when this side was recorded for Brunswick in January of 1922: he was waxing for every major label and most of the minor ones as well, though by 1926 the minor labels would be the only ones
who would record him. Time might have treated him more kindly if he had kept making records like this one: the band was great, and the song had a good melody: it had been sung by Vernon Dalhart for Edison with no small success.
The lyrics were written by a young Mitchell Parish, his first published song in fact, and he would later go on to write the lyrics for "Stardust" and "Moonlight Serenade." The melody was written by the songwriting team of
Eleanor Young and Harry D. Squires, and they also wrote "Just for Remembrance" with Parish. Al Bernard makes this song his own without going too overboard with it; a good performace. The record had been played quite a lot,
but after taming the crackle with noise reduction the music comes back out from behind the noise.
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