by Cass Hagan and his Park Central Hotel Orchestra
Besides the tunes reissued on the "Timeless Records" CD, including the classic "Varsity Drag",
this band released other great sides (such as this one) that haven't been reissued. The tune was written by the great songwriting team Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson (who also wrote "Makin' Whoopee" and "Sing Me a Baby Song").
January 27 of 1928 was the recording date for this Columbia waxing. The trumpet work here could be by Henry Levine (who showed up twelve years later in the radio show for NBC titled "The Chamber Music Society
of Lower Basin Street"). This is a medium-tempo number, but it moves well, and the anonymous arranger wrote a great chart with some tasty ensemble passages. The vocal is credited to Frank Harris which is a pseudonym for
Irving Kaufman - this is, to my ear, one of his better vocals. This record originally had a fair amount of crackle, as VivaTonal Columbias tend to have if they've been played, but some scratch removal has done wonders for
the sample yielding a nice clean recording of a beautiful number.
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