Songwriter Byron Gay (who also co-wrote "The Vamp" and the evergreen "Four or Five Times") teamed up with the prolific Neil Moret to write this hit number in 1927. This particular version comes from the newly-electrified Edison studios on November 1 of 1927.
The arrangement is interesting, meandering back and forth between Spanish motifs and jazzy ones - the two-guitar "solo" toward the end of the record is an interesting highlight, one that would have been cut out on a standard length 78 rpm record. Theo Alban does
the vocals in an adenoidal style that could only happen during the transition from acoustic to electric recording. The surface sounded much better than it looked - the scratches that showed on the surface didn't go deep, so there was very little surface noise to
tame. After a once-over-lightly with the noise reduction, this disc sounds quite good.
