"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles," sung as a male vocal duet by Charles Hart and Elliott Shaw

with violin (Howard Rattay) and orchestra under conductor Josef Pasternack. It was recorded March 10, 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, matrix B-22600, take 5. The flip side of your record, Victor 18540-A, is "Don't Cry, Frenchy, Don't Cry" by the same duo, recorded the previous day. The two singers were old colleagues from Victor's Shannon Four, one of the era's most popular male quartets. Their version was one of many competing "Bubbles" records in 1919 — Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra had the big chart hit with it, while Campbell & Burr, Helen Clark, and Brunswick's Hart-Shaw version all chased the same song. The music was written in 1918 by John William Kellette, and the lyrics are credited to "Jaan Kenbrovin" — a collective pseudonym combining James Ken-dis, James Brock-man, and Nat Vin-cent, three lyricists who were each under contract to different publishers and needed a shared pen name. The song debuted in the Broadway revue The Passing Show of 1918 and was first published in 1919 by Kendis-Brockman Music Co., then transferred to Jerome H. Remick & Co.. It later became famous as the West Ham United football anthem.