Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
78 rpm Victor 19685 A
It’s nice to hear tunes that have been used a lot in the New Orleans Revival in their original 1920s versions, straight and including the verse. Here it is: The Benson Orchestra of Chicago plays one such number on a very early electrical recording. The recording date was May 23, 1925.
It’s a song that, like several others of the time, directs the affection, not to the lover but to the mother. (We do not hear that often in today’s love songs.)
Nice lift in the last sixteen bars and good saxophone section work before that!