One of the bigger songs from the mid 1920s, this was given a blissfully simple treatment by one of the pioneer performers of early radio (whose vocal styles would be influential on later swing-era singers such as Helen Ward and Edith Wright). Written by Ned
Miller (manager of Feist Music in Chicago, co-wrote "Sweetness" and the evergreen "Sunday"), Art Kahn (bandleader active in the mid 1920s, co-wrote "Blue Evening Blues" and "Twilight Echoes") & Chester Cohn (manager of Feist Music in New York, co-wrote "Don't
Mind the Rain" and "My Supressed Desire") in early 1927. Ruth recorded it for Columbia in New York on July 1 of that same year. Her native folksy sweetness is evident here, as it is on her early records before the world-weariness of "Ten Cents a Dance" took
root in her. The record had seen some wear, and gets a bit crackly toward the end, but after some appropriately aggressive noise treatment it becomes pleasant to hear once again. (The flip side, "I'm Nobody's Baby", can be heard as a sound sample at the
"Remembering Ruth Etting" web site. "I'm Nobody's Baby" has also been reissued on CD and is available through
Amazon.com.)
