Irving Kaufman, Ben Selvin Orch.- "Who's Sorry Now?" (1923)

[musicmandon1]

Whoever said Kaufman sounds like Jolson is wrong. Jolson's voice is tiresome, but I can't get enough of Kaufman. In the '70s you could only hear him on the Joe Franklin show "Memory Lane," and that only now and again. Glad so many of his are on youtube.

[bsgs98]

@musicmandon1 They were both very good at what they did. Jolson was primarily an entertainer who performed in vaudeville, stage, recordings, film and radio. Kaufman was probably the most prolific recording vocalist of his era. He could sing in any style with a vocal rage ranging from baritone to tenor.

[HarborGuy]

OMG I never realized that this was this old.  Great even at the start.

[bsgs98]

@HarborGuy We all remember that Connie Francis sang it in the 1950s. It was a big hit for her, but she didn't like it at first. She claimed it was her father who suggested she record it. Her father told her "it stood a chance of becoming a hit because it was a song adults already knew and that teenagers would dance to if it had a contemporary arrangement." (see "Connie Francis" in Wikipedia)

[ThePeaceableKingdom]

Thanks for posting this. I've long looked for an early-twenties version of this with vocals. Most of the ones I've heard from the early twenties are instrumentals.

[bsgs98]

@ThePeaceableKingdom There are other early vocals of this done by Billy Jones and Arthur Hall but they're not on YT. There is a very poignant rendition done by Marion Harris. Search "Marion Harris - Who's Sorry Now (1923)"

[abendstunde49]

Thanks for this great Irving Kaufmann!

[bsgs98]

@abendstunde49 Glad you like it! Kaufman was one of the the most recorded vocalist of the 1920s.

[UkesterBrown]

Nice. I'd never heard the intro before.