The ever-present Ben Selvin is actually the bandleader on this disc recorded a heartbeat away from the Great Depression for VelvetTone records on October 23 of 1929. VelvetTone had finally seen fit to use
electric recording equipment (they were one of the last labels to convert). This is a bouncy number from the then-current New York musical (that would soon become a movie), "Lord Byron of Broadway", co-written by Nacio
Herb Brown and Arthur Freed (who together also wrote "Broadway Rhythm", "Pagan Love Song", and the classic "Temptation"). Selvin's band plays this with no solos to speak of, just good tight ensemble playing as one would
expect. The surface of this record had taken a beating with repeated playings, and running this sample repeatedly through the ClickRepair filter has done some amazing things for it.
