Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away
Performed by Dick Robertson and His Orchestra (original issue Joel Shaw) (Dick Robertson vocal; Joel Shaw piano - director; ? - ? trumpet; ? trombone; Mike Doty clarinet - alto sax; Gene Kardos alto sax; ? tenor sax; ? guitar; ? tuba; ? drums)
Varsity 8039
Originally recorded ca. March 10, 1932
This record was originally issued on the Crown label as a Joel Shaw record. It was dubbed and re-issued by Varsity in 1939. I don't usually use dubs as they usually have inferior sound, but this one sounded pretty good and it was my only copy.
Dick Robertson was born in Brooklyn on July 3, 1903. He recorded under his own name and with many different bands from the twenties through the forties. He also sang in many different clubs and theaters in the United States, Canada, England and France, as well as on radio. He was a songwriter as well - his works include "At Least You Could Say Hello"; "Is There Somebody Else?"; "We Three"; "You Forgot About Me"; "Yesterday's Gardenias"; "A Little on the Lonely Side"; and "Goodnight, Wherever You Are". He died in 1979.
Joe Young and Carmen Lombardo (Guy Lombardo's brother) wrote "Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away" in 1932. The song was used in many movies, including features such as "The Crash", short subjects such as "Watch the Birdie", and animated shorts such as "Bosko's Dog Race".
Young and Lombardo also wrote "Snuggled on Your Shoulder". With other songwriters, Young co-wrote "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (for Somebody Else)"; "Annie Doesn't Live Here Any More"; "Cryin' for the Carolines"; "Daddy Long Legs"; "Dinah"; "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue"; "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)"; "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"; "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"; "In a Little Spanish Town"; "My Mammy"; "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody"; "Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home)"; "Take in the Sun, Hang Out the Moon"; "Telling It to the Daisies"; "There's a Cradle in Caroline"; "Was That the Human Thing to Do?"; "Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula"; and "You're a Heavenly Thing", while Lombardo co-wrote "Address Unknown"; "Boo-Hoo"; "Coquette"; "Footloose and Fancy Free"; "Get Out Those Old Records"; "Oooh! Look-a There, Ain't She Pretty?"; "Seems Like Old Times"; "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven"; and "Sweethearts on Parade".
"Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away" was also recorded by Ben Selvin, Riley Puckett and Will Osborne.
