The earnestly polite, yet vivacious, Ada Jones was a fixture on America's Vaudeville circuit in the years before WW1. Because her voice "waxed well", she recorded prolifically - many of her performances survive, and her innocent charm has weathered
the century intact. This relatively late example was recorded on November 22 of 1916. The song's subject matter, a husband's attempt to pull the wool over his new wife's eyes, was very popular in Vaudeville and Ada handles it with graceful applomb.
It had been written by Albert Von Tilzer (co-wrote "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"), Ed P. Moran (co-wrote "Just As We Used To Do"), and Will A. Heelan (co-wrote "Every Race Has a Flag But The Coon") earlier that same year. It fits perfectly into Ada
Jones' repertoir - in fact, she had recorded another song some years earlier with a similar title (called "Put On Your Slippers You're In For The Night") - that was popular enough for it to be re-recorded for Edison in the early 20s, shortly before
Ada passed away. The surface on this disc is noisy, as early Diamond Discs tend to be, but after fitting the right stylus to the groove the noise is sufficiently tamed - the results are quite entertaining.
