This appears to be a pseudonym fpr Ed Kirkeby (1891-1978), who was a bandleader, vocalist and manager., is best remembered as the manager of Fats Waller, he also managed the Pickens Sisters and worked in the band booking department at NBC. He was one of the first recording managers at Columbia Records to record jazz and organized the California Ramblers to record it. He used several pseudonyms for recording including Ted Wallace, Eddie Lloyd, Loyd. As Fats Waller's manager he also acted as his archivist building a collection which is held today by the Institute of Jazz Studies. After Waller's death in 1943 Kirkeby remained active managing many other groups and musicians.Vocal by Smith Ballew. He was an excellent singer who worked with the most diverse jazz and dance bands (Ben Pollack, the Dorsey Brothers...); when the Depression struck very harshly, he could no longer perform as a member of other bands, and founded several bands under his own name, before returning to the Dorsey Orchestra and a little later joning the Glenn Miller Orchestra. This excellent record was made in 1929.
