I used to consider myself a great piano player until I started hearing pianists from the 1920's. Then I said, wait a minute. ;)

Dance fingers, dance!

Thanks for sharing ❤️

Just what we need for these rainy, bluesy days to perk us up; thanks!

I used to have one of these in my living room. I gave it away...darn! (It worked well too.)

I adore this song, and it really makes my day.

Gosh, he totally TEARS IT UP! Fantastic!

this is a masterful arrangement and it rivals if not exceeds the great Arden/Carroll Ampico version. It never ceases to amaze me how smaller piano roll companies often produced more superb renditions than the major brands.

I firmly believe that the shadowy artist/arranger figures at Atlas (which was basically a continuation of the old Standard Music Roll Co.) including Annabelle Taylor, Phil Lynch, Joseph Fecher, Finisher Johnson etc. found the MAGIC formula towards making a great piano roll arrangement! I have yet to hear a bad roll from their company!!! They were obviously trying really hard to compete with the tasty stuff that Rudy Erlebach was doing on the Paramount label - and I think they were SUCCEEDING!

Merry making song.I do like it,too.

Just reviving this old favorite video of mine. This is a fantastic four hand arrangement of this song, I love to heart.

Wonderful, outstanding arrangement, fantastic!

Sounds beautifully ❤️🏵️💐😍🤗🌄🌅🌇 and I love 💕😘 that piano roll 🥐 too.

Wonderful arrangement.

Love it, a very good roll and a nice sounding piano, Thanks!

Absolutely lovely,thanks

I love this snappy tune and it is what reminded my dad of the repeal of Prohibitiion. Those dry days did not stop my step grandpa who got the good stuff from out of the country from the boats docking in Tacoma and sold to the local hotel Maitre D's It was a bustling business but got him busted by the dry squad just like nearly every other bootlegger, but continued his hobby!!

Great, one of my favorite tunes!

TERIFF! WHAT A GREAT ARRANGEMENT... THANK YOU FOR SHARING. MAY THOSE HAPPY DAYS RETURN...HA.

This time as I played the song, thanks to your good photography, I could read and sing the words right alone with the roll

I can't play this video enough. By the end of the song, I am ready to take on almost anything ! :)

Yes I do, and I plan to put them on KZfaq soon. The next one will be "Bashful Baby" a song from the late 1920's.

What a fun arrangement

Love this one, I have a copy never played...

The main theme sounds like the song from the Tom and Jerry episode with the haunted house!

that is all interesting. I have read on the 'Net that other pianists actually recorded under Wendling's name but I don't know if that is true. Back in the 1960s one of my Dad's old friends, long since deceased, said that "Ohman and Arden" was one of the few music roll artists that stuck in his mind, going back in his memory through the decades that had passed since the 1920s. I've got some of their 78s. Victor Arden was not his real name, that was a stage name.

Thanks again. It appears that a lot of people like this roll besides you and me. I have another Phil Lynch roll on KZfaq of "Bashful Baby" that you might enjoy. My own taste in pop piano rolls is for people like Pete Wendling, Phil Ohman and Frank Milne. Adam Carroll is one of my least favorites, along with Victor Arden (except when he was playing with Ohman)

Oh yeah!

Wish I could play this well. Nuff said !

The best qualiry KZfaq piano recording I've heard and a fantastic player. Thank you so much for putting this up. Keep em coming please.

I so enjoyed this post. Your piano sounds GREAT ! Now I am going to have to track down a copy of this roll. . . .

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Since FDR was nominated as a presidential candidate in 1932 this has been the anthem of the Democratic Party.

I just found out that Phil Lynch was a real person... a piece of sheet music with his photo on the cover just sold on eBay about a month ago. It turns out he was a dance bandleader as well as a pianist, and I believe he was based in New Jersey, which makes sense for Atlas (also based in New Jersey). I haven't yet found any reference to any recordings by him or his band, what a shame!!!

Very well played by the piano and you!

I feel like I'm sitting in a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor.

Great Arrangement! It would sound good on an A roll piano.

GOD this looks like it would be SO FUN to play!!! (by hand, I mean)

Some ATLAS rolls WERE made with square punches. Certain arrangements demanded it for a more natural sound. If the difference is not obvious, check the Duo-Art reroll perfs at the end of the roll. There will either be a chain of rectangular holes (as on this roll) or a chain of square ones (as on relatively few other rolls). BTW, as great as this arrangement sounds, there is one note that hesitates. This is not a malfunction of the player, but rather the perforator that made this particular roll.

I was taken to this by Google

Playing this...someone asks Why I say "Now you know, Now you know what its like to live inside my skull" they look at me and say "Your the most sane person in the room right now"

Lucille Esmeralda McGillicutty Ricardo to Ethel Louise Roberta Mae Potter Mertz: "What would you do if Fred ever left you?" Ethel Louise Roberta Mae Potter Mertz to Lucille Esmeralda McGillicutty Ricardo: "I'd be singing 'Happy Days are Here Again."

Although credited to New Jersey dance band leader and pianist Phil Lynch, I hear a TON of (Standard and Atlas house artist) Joe Fecher's style in this, so although Mr. Lynch could have done a lot of this, I think the final version here is likely a joint Lynch / Fecher effort in terms of musical ideas, much like how practically every Columbia / Capitol roll arrangement was a collaboration between house arranger Roy Rodocker and the credited artist. This becomes more apparent when a number of Atlas rolls by various artists are auditioned in a row, then compared with audio recordings of those same artists, if/when possible. Stupendous arrangement though, it gets syncopated as hell by the end.

The "MAGIC" formula was a financial one."Time is money." By using rectangular punches and 1:1 masters they could punch out rolls in half the time it took running the industry standard 2:1 mastering system, and without the characteristic poor performance of other rolls made from 1:1 masters using square or round punches. Unfortunately this meant only half as many positions available for holes in any given length of paper. Arrangers innovated clever, catchy ways of getting around this limitation!

@KawhackitaRag Yes, it is an Atlas Roll, # 3975

This is Like 1876 Music' so 😁

A great piece [] :{)

that is a kick-ass performance!

I like it ! I like it ! :{)

This is by far best version I've ever heard. The growling in the beginning and the taking you up (around 2:06) and the transitioning down is just fantastic. Thanks for posting. Do you have anymore from Phil Lynch?

🎶 November 3, 2020 the whole world will be singing this song!! 🎶

nice for ivory tinklers..

has some way to sing _this?_

SUPER ROLL!! PLEASE: Roll company, artist and what piano!!!??!

Is this an Atlas roll? What's the roll number?

Can you give me the company name and roll number? This is such a catchy tune that I need a copy for myself

Thanks for the second comment. I have an interesting story about Lewis J. Fuiks you might like. My email is AeolianPiano@gmail.com and we can communicate easier that way.

Who the hell was Phil Lynch??

I have a midi scan if anyone wants it. I can't post links in the comments (KZfaq removes them and it's dumb) but you can look at my channel for videos with the scans. I have direct download links.