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Nick Lucas was a very popular recording artist of the 1920's and 1930's. A skilled multi-instrumentalist (mandolin, guitar, banjo, ukelele, etc.) he played and sang variously in vaudeville and clubs, and was billed as "The Singing Troubadour." From 1918 until 1920 Nick and his brother Frank formed part of the Lucas Ukelele Trio and Novelty Quartet which recorded for Pathe. A first generation American, Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1897. Lucas sang with conviction and style, and was able to bring sincerity and musicality to the best songs of a great era of songwriting. As a guitarist he was one of the most advanced soloists in the entire family of string instruments in that pivotal early period. Lucas made the first solo jazz guitar record for Pathe in 1922, featuring his original compositions, "Pickin' The Guitar" and "Teasin' The Frets." In 1929 he was featured in two Warner-Vitaphone pictures, The Show Of Shows, and the more prestigious 1929 Gold Diggers Of Broadway, where he introduced "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" and "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me," which provided Nick with his only No. 1 hit. It would sell in excess of two million copies and secured his immortality. During the 1950's Nick made extensive tours of Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe. A regular on American TV, he was often featured on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1974 he sang "I'm Gonna Charleston Back To Charleston," "When You And I Were Seventeen," and "Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue" for the soundtrack of the Academy Award-winning Paramount re-make of The Great Gatsby, the following year providing similar fare for the Oscar-nominated satire on Hollywood's early talkie era: The Day Of The Locust. Nick Lucas died in Newark, New Jersey, on July 28, 1982.