Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Also posted here in a recording by Ray Starita ( youtu.be/je0ZVMbrnxU ), this was a song from the ‘lost’ 1929 Vitaphone/Warner Brothers feature film “Honky Tonk,” starring Sophie Tucker.

Transferred from 78rpm Victor 22016 - I’m Doin’ What I’m Doin’ For Love (Jack Yellen-Milton Ager) by Herman Kenin & his Orchestra, recorded in Culver City CA April 26, 1929
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