"The Blue Room" (Joe Venuti, 1928)

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Jazz violinist Joe Venuti took a break from Paul Whiteman's band to team up the Blue Four (here with vocalist Harold Arlen) in 1928 to cut this instant standard from Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's 1926 show, "The Girl Friend". THE BLUE ROOM We'll have a blue room, A new room, For two room, Where ev'ry day's a holiday Because you're married to me. Not like a ballroom, A small room, A hall room, Where I can smoke my pipe away With your head upon my knee. You sew your trousseau, And Robinson ...