The Knickerbockers (Ben Selvin’s Orchestra) – Where Can You Be? Fox-Trot from the Film “Cheer Up and Smile” (Jesse Greer – Ray Klages) with Vocal chorus (Libby Holman?), Columbia 1930 (USA)

NOTE: It’s a moody foxtrot created during the darkest days of the Great Depression and featured in the film comedy entitled meaningfully “Cheer Up And Smile”. Such titles were meant to build up a little the general gloominess of the American society, plunged in the depths of the economical crisis. Similarily, the strongly propagandistic was also title of the big hit of that time: Happy Days Are Here Again: the line optimistically heralding the machinery of the nation slowly going back into action, due to the legislation of the Roosevelt/ Hoover’s New Deal of 1932.
I hope I’m not wrong in my hint, this so a nice vocal has been made in this recording by Libby Holman.

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