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This tune, with words by Addison Burkhardt and music by Raymond Hubbell, was the prototype mawkish sentimental song (Monty Python satirized this sort of song with Terry Jones singing, "Never Be Rude To An Arab"), but
it was the sort of tune that Vaudeville audiences loved. In fact, it seems to have been published twice - once in 1902 (when this record was made for Edison), and again in 1911 (when the sheet music to the left was printed).
Byron Harlan, the tenor half of Collins & Harlan, sings it and sells it like a pro. The surface of this 2-minute cylinder has some mold on it, which made noise reduction trickier than usual, and while it is not perfect the
record still sounds better than it did before. (A brief quote from a period catalog about Byron Harlan can be found at the "Vintage Vaudeville and Ragtime Show".)
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