This was a pseudonym for Fletcher Henderson, who led the most successful of the African-American jazz bands of the 20's. In 1922, he led a band at the Club Alabam, which later moved to the Roseland Ballroom where they stayed for the next ten years. The orchestra continued to tour and record until 1939 when it disbanded, and Henderson joined the Benny Goodman Orchestra as the pianist and arranger. In 1943 Henderson left Goodman's band, although he remained Goodman's arranger. In 1950, health problems definitively prevented him from performing. This song title is a kind of Spanglish, the other way round, actually an English pseudophonetical transcription of "Mi niña", which means "my little girl". The recording is an acoustical 1925 one of remarkable quality. It is interesting as well to compare this amazing jazz arrangement to the original tender ballad; listen to Lee Morse exquisitely singing this the same year: http://www.leemorse.com/her_songbook/songs/1925_0200_01/1925_0200_01.htm
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