1928 HITS ARCHIVE: Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella - Roger Wolfe Kahn (Franklyn Baur, vocal)

Collectors of 1920s-era 78s may recall running across many copies of this popular pressing. The previously-posted flipside is the Shilkret-Troubadours up-tempo version of Gershwin’s “The Man I Love.”

Transferred from the original 78rpm: Victor 21233 - Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella (Kahal-Wheeler-Fain) by Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra, vocal by Franklyn Baur, recorded in NYC February 8, 1928

THE 1928 HITS ARCHIVE - a collection of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1928 (some were recorded in 1927) via sales, sheet music, and radio exposure.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed. .
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