I actually met the gal that sang this song in the 1929 film version of “Rio Rita.”
Ben Selvin’s studio orchestra recorded hundreds upon hundreds of recordings, often using pseudonyms because he was so prolific. But most were in the mid-1920s to early-1930s. Sometimes he’d hire familiar jazzmen to sit in and serve up solos for his recordings, like Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden and such.
I met Ben Selvin at a Record Research Associates meeting in NYC in 1980. Delightful guy.
Selvin is reputed to have made about 9000 recordings in one capacity or another. After making commercial records from 1909 into the early ‘thirties, he made recordings for Muzak and other outfits for many more years.
Selvin was, of course, Jewish. His son, Rick, became a Catholic in the 1990’s, and died a couple of years ago.