Cliff Roberts' Dance Orchestra - Sunlit Skies

This appears to be a pseudonym for Lou (aka Lew) Gold. Although largely forgotten today, Gold was a very popular orchestra leader during the 1920s. He was born Lewis Milton Goldwasser in 1894, and mainly active in the New York area during the 1920s and 1930s as a composer, pianist and orchestra leader. His orchestra made several recordings both with his own name and with different pseudonyms, depending on what label the recordings were made for. He died in 1950 and during his life he worked with artists like Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Abe Lyman and many others. The recording was made in 1930, with a vocal by Charles Lawman. Sadly, this refined tenor (although back then he was referred to as a baritone) is totally forgotten today. Very little information is available about him. Charles Swan Lawman (1901-1955) performed on the radio in the late 1920s and early 1930s and was once billed as "The Dixie Baritone". During the same period he was quite active recording for the Columbia, Banner, Crown and Oriole labels, leaving us in total around 85 sides. On Columbia he recorded under his own name. He also appeared as vocalist with several bands including Ben Selvin, Adrian Schubert, Lou Gold, Tommy Gott, Leonard Joy and Bob Haring. A record review in Time Magazine, in 1931, referred to him in these words: "A newcomer, baritone Charlie Lawman is pleasantly old-fashioned".