Al Lynn's Music Masters, Vocal Chorus by Johnny Ryan -- There Ain't No Maybe In My Baby's Eyes, Fox Trot (Kahn --Egan- Donaldson), Edison 1926 (USA)

NOTE: Al Lynn's band belongs to those great dance and, unfortunately, ephemeric orchestras, which recorded solely for the Edison Records in mid-late 1920s, and disappeared forever from the musical scene as soon as Edison went out of business two days after the Stock Market Crash of October 1929. Very little is known about Al Lynn's Music Masters, their discography covers the period between 1926-28. "There Ain't No Maybe In My Baby's Eyes" was Walter Donaldson's great & hot hit of the year 1926; it was released on the peak of the charleston-dance-madness in both Americas and in Europe. For some reason, however, the hottest charlestons of that time were being stubbornly labelled as "fox-trots". This one is no exception: as for a "fox-trot", however, this arrangement has too-a-crystal-pure charleston-beat. Nothing is known either about the vocalist, Johnny Ryan (probably, a poseudonym).
What's funny about Thomas Edison's jazz-record releases is fact, Edison was a sworn enemy of jazz. He detested that "barbaric" music and he surrendered to issuing those fantastic jazz-records only not to lose his market share to the other big players in music business (Victor, Columbia, Brunswick, Carl Lindstroem's group). The series of Edison hot-dance recordings are today very much sought-for by collectors and some of the releases (e.g. B.A. Rolfe's Palace d'Or Orchestra) reach staggering prices at record-auctions (up to 300-400 $ / item).

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