Painting The Clouds With Sunshine 1929 Brunswick 4418 Nick Lucas (August 22, 1897, Newark, New Jersey -- July 28, 1982, Colorado Springs, Colorado) born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese was an American singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as \"the grandfather of the jazz guitar\", whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s. In 1929, he co-starred in the Warner Brothers Technicolor musical, Gold Diggers of Broadway, in which he introduced the two hit songs \"Painting the Clouds with Sunshine\" and \"Tiptoe Through the Tulips\". The latter became Lucas' official theme song. The same year, Lucas was also featured in the studio's all-star revue, The Show of Shows. Lucas turned down Warner Bros.' seven-year contract offer, which went instead to fellow crooner Dick Powell. An inspiration to Tiny Tim, who made Lucas' \"Tip-Toe Through the Tulips\" (written November 1929) his own theme song, Lucas became friends with the performer, and on December 17, 1969, when Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Lucas was there to sing their trademark song.
