Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Enforcement Robert More

Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Executive Assistant Director Shawn Henry, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Director of Enforcement Robert Khuzami and other officials from the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force held a press conference to announce the results to date of "Operation Broken Trust," a three and a half month operation targeting investment fraud.
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I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart (Fisher/Unger /Stern) - Ted Lewis & His Band, (v. Ted Lewis & trio) Columbia 1931 More

I'm All Dressed Up With A Broken Heart (Fisher/Unger /Stern) - Ted Lewis & His Band, (v. Ted Lewis & trio) Columbia 1931 __________________________________ From Wikipedia: Ted LEWIS (Theodore Leopold Friedman, 1890 -- 1971) was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment". Born in Circleville, Ohio, Lewis was one of the first Northern musicians to start imitating the New Orleans jazz musicians who came up to New York in the teens. He first recorded in 1917 with Earl Fuller's Jass Band, who were making an energetic if somewhat clumsy attempt to copy the sound of the city's newest sensation, the Original Dixieland Jass Band. At the time, Lewis didn't seem to be able to do much on the clarinet other than trill. He improved a bit later, forming his style from the influences of the first New Orleans clarinetists to reside in New York, Larry Shields, Alcide Nunez, and Achille Baquet. By 1919 Lewis was leading his own band, and had a recording contract with Columbia Records, which marketed him as their answer to the Original Dixieland Jass Band who recorded for Victor records. At the start of the 1920s he was considered by many people without previous knowledge of jazz (that is to say, most of America) to be one of the leading lights of hot jazz. Lewis's clarinet playing never evolved beyond his style of 1919 which in later years would sound increasingly corny, but Lewis certainly knew what good clarinet playing sounded like, for he hired musicians like Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, and the wonderful Don Murray to play clarinet in his band. For years his band also included jazz greats Muggsy Spanier on trumpet and George Brunis on trombone. Ted Lewis's band was second only to the Paul Whiteman in popularity during the 1920s, and arguably played more real jazz with less pretension than Whiteman, especially in his recordings of the late 1920s. Lewis's band got schmaltzier as the Great Depression wore on, and Lewis adopted a battered top hat for sentimental, hard-luck tunes (he called himself "the high-hatted tragedian of song"). But this seemed to match the general public's taste, as he kept commercially successful during an era when many bands broke up. Through it all he retained his famous catchphrase, "Is everybody happy?" Frequently he would stray from song lyrics, improvising chatter around them. This gave the effect of Lewis "speaking" the song: "When ma' baby... when ma' baby smiles at me... gee, what a wonderful, wonderful light that comes to her eyes... look at that light, folks..." This freelance attitude to the tunes' music line and the text pushes him out -- in opinion of many historians of jazz -- of the serious debate of the era...
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