by The Happiness Boys (Billy Jones and Ernest Hare)
Val and Ernie Stanton wrote this song, in late 1921, as a tribute to the legendary Vaudeville performer - Eddie is remembered by his songs, "Ida Sweet As Apple Cider" and "Roll Them Roly-Boly Eyes" (featured in a Broadway musical by that name in 1919
according to the Internet Broadway DataBase). This is one of the three recorded versions of the Stanton's song to be released - the California Ramblers waxed it for Vocalion, and
Lanin's Southern Serenaders recorded it for Emerson. Billy Jones and Ernest Hare sang this for Brunswick on January of 1922 with Carl Fenton's orchestra accompanying them - one of the better backups they ever had. The comraderie that Jones and Hare exuded,
even before they were called "The Happiness Boys", is fully evident here and they sell this song exceptionally well. On a personal note, this was my first Jones and Hare disc and has been a favorite of mine for literally decades; some of the wear you'll
hear on this copy is wear that I put there myself. I managed to minimize the effects of groove stress with noise reduction treatment, and preserve the original fidelity at the same time.
