Willard Robison
Willard Robison
Top Songs
| 1 | Hello Bluebird | ||
| 2 | Blue River | ||
| 3 | Back in Your Own Back Yard | ||
| 4 | We'll Have a New Home (In the Mornin') | ||
| 5 | Harlem Blues |
Albums
Nov 1927 • 1 song
Nov 1927 • 1 song
Aug 1927 • 1 song
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Biography
A songwriter and occasional performer of his own pastoral, semi-rural ballads, Willard Robison offered several standards to the classic American pop repertoire, including "A Cottage for Sale," "Don't Smoke in Bed," "'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So," "Old Folks," and "Peaceful Valley" (the latter Paul Whiteman's theme song). Born in Missouri, Robison played piano and led a few territory bands in the Southwest during the '20s (including work with Jack Teagarden) and recorded several dozen sides in New York later in the decade as the leader of Willard Robison's Levee Loungers and t...