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From the Rick Colom Collection: Recorded several years before the multi-talented Smith Ballew would trade his baton for a movie six-gun, here are two nice sounding sides by the band (flipside “I Love Louisa” also posted). His final three singles for Columbia included the “Piping Rock Orchestra” label billing, a reference to the Piping Rock nightclub in Saratoga Springs NY where Ballew and his band were performing that summer. Other recording artists releasing this 1931 Harry Barris-Harry Tobias ballad included Connee Boswell, The High Hatters and Ben Selvin (as ‘Lloyd Keating’).

Digital restoration by Bob Moke from the original 78rpm: Columbia 2503-D - What is It? (Barris-Tobias) by Smith Ballew and his Piping Rock Orchestra, vocal by Smith Ballew, recorded in NYC July 23, 1931