Harold Atteridge (co-wrote "Bagdad" and "Tell That to the Marines"), Jean Schwartz (co-wrote the classic "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"), and Alfred Bryan (co-author of "When Alexander Takes his Ragtime Band Back
to France") wrote a hit musical called "Make It Snappy" in early 1922. It played for three months on Broadway, and included both tunes featured in this medley: the title tune, and a nicely-named number called "Hootch Rhythm."
The tune "Lovable Eyes" was a major hit, recorded at least once by every label in business at the time, and Edison Labs had one of their generically-named house bands put it to wax on May 25. It was released on both disc and cylinder.
The tempo is different from most fox-trots, almost a fast march, though after a while it makes sense; it fits the personality of the tune. The recording is nice and bright on the high end. That, and the mini-crescendos throughout
the piece, must have made it very useful as a demonstration disc for Edison machines. The disc had been played with a regular Victrola once, something that nobody should do with an Edison disc, but the area of damage was brief and
the resulting sample responded well to noise reduction.
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