Have A Smile - Sterling Trio

[Lah Ca]

Victor 18518 B - Have A Smile - Sterling Trio

https://youtu.be/_dzuM9V46LI

This Victor recording came with my Aeolian Vocalian gramophone. Released after the horrors of the preceding few years, the record is a bit of cheerful 1919 optimism . Normally it is not something that would appeal to my cynical and bitter nature, but increasingly, my wife and I find ourselves playing it, singing along with it, and later mindlessly humming it. Listening, singing, and humming seem to be psychologically helpful under present circumstances.

There are many well-known, well-studied benefits to smiling. Here from UWA (a site more or less chosen at random from a DuckDuckGo search) is one of many digests of smile research:

https://online.uwa.edu/news/benefits-of ... -laughter/

We can do this volumtarily or ... there is the O Lucky Man! smile scene:

https://youtu.be/SO_7rpbGWW8

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Henry Burr, the tenor in the trio, seems to have been a mover and shaker in his day.

http://www.henryburr.com

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/ ... r-bio.aspx