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Don Bestor & His Orchestra

"Sweetheart Darlin'"

Victor 24317

May 8, 1933

Song by Herbert Stothart & Gus Kahn

My father was Irish, my mother was English
But the Irish has the upper hand in me
And speakin' of Irish people and things
How'd ya like an Irish melody?

There's a light in your eyes, sweetheart darlin'
And it makes all the world fair and bright
Like the light in the skies, sweetheart darlin'
When the mornin' steals out of the night.

His lovelight is shinin' for someone
Sure I'm wondrin' just who it could be

My darlin',
There's a light in your eyes, sweetheart darlin'
Tell me, darlin', it's shinin' for me

Here is a sad footnote about one of the songwriters: Herbert Stothart had a wife named Dorothy Wolfe who committed suicide in front of him while he played a piano at home. Their 4-year-old daughter in the house. It happened in 1924.

Why she took her life or why she did it in this manner is not clear.

Perhaps it was due to Herbert being an unfaithful spouse. Two years earlier, in 1922, Frances White was sued for alienation of affections by Dorothy Wolfe Stothart.

In March 1929, Herbert married the sister of his deceased first wife. The new wife was Mary Wolfe.

Stothart was a Broadway composer who eventually abandoned the stage to compose mostly background music for films.

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Don Bestor was born on September 23, 1889, in Longford, South Dakota.

His mother was Mrs. Carrie Bestor. His brother, A. L. Bestor, was also a musician.

Don Bestor became a skilled piano player.

By the age of 16, he worked as pianist with a traveling vaudeville orchestra. He later organized his own band, touring theaters in the Midwest.

In 1922, Bestor, at age 33 years old, worked for Edgar Benson, a Chicago entrepreneur who managed dozens of dance bands and orchestras.

Bestor remained with the Benson organization until 1925.

For the remainder of the 1920s and early 1930s, Bestor fronted his own orchestra, playing dance clubs and hotel ballrooms across the eastern United States, and recording for Brunswick.

He died in Metamora on January 13, 1970, at the age of 80.