Lee Morse - When I Lost You

Morse was a very popular recording artist, songwriter and actress during the 20s and early 30s. She had her debut in vaudeville on the West Coast around 1920 and performed in several plays and revues on Broadway. In 1924 she began to record under her own name for the Pathé Actuelle company. Many of her recordings especially those released under the name of Lee Morse and her Bluegrass Boys feature accompaniment by a small jazz band that often included some of the best white jazz musicians of the era. Morse was an excellent and unique singer. Morse's career faded in the early 1930s. In the late 1940s she tried a comeback and briefly had a local radio show in upstate New York. She recorded one last record in 1950, and died four years later. This unforgettable rendition seems to have recorded in 1938; although another, according to some conflicting sources, may have been made ten years earlier in 1928. In a way, 1938 is quite unlikely as her biographis suggest she didn't record between the early 30's and the 50's when she attempted a brief comeback.