I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight + Every Sunday Afternoon (1925) Percival Mackey with Fred Douglas

I WONDER WHERE MY BABY IS TONIGHT { 0:00​ }
EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON { 3:00​ }
Percival Mackey’s Band; vocalist Fred Douglas
Columbia 3850 (recorded 8 December 1925; issued late January 1926)

Reviewing this record, The Gramophone declared: Percival Mackey’s Band is quite unrivalled for its “go”, and his records for the amazing volume of sound produced without its becoming in any way offensive to listen to.

The UK Columbia studios habitué, Fred Douglas, does sterling work with the vocals; and is far better than Jack Hylton who sounds flat and tuneless on his band’s recording of I WONDER WHERE MY BABY IS TONIGHT. Hylton did, however, get a better sound from the HMV engineers.

Notice that the label has ‘To-night’. That was the accepted UK spelling back then, matching the spelling of 'to-day' and ‘to-morrow’. It was similarly so with address, e.g. High-street and Main-road, in the newspapers.

Fred certainly earned his session fee with EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, which is one of the fastest and raciest fox-trots going and he maintains his clear diction. He was a stalwart of the music halls and variety, and, by the time of this recording, had over a decade of continuous recording experience behind him. My biography of him was in Memory Lane in Spring 2019.

EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON was composed by the American vocalist Chick Endor and compatriot pianist Eddie Ward. They perform on a 1928 Columbia which I uploaded some time ago:    • She's A Great Great Girl + Lila (1928...