At the Music Hall: The Blue Room, 1926

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 Crusoe
Is not so far from worldly cares
As our blue room 'way upstairs.


"Blue Room,” a popular standard, is from the 1926 Rodgers and Hart musical “The Girl Friend.” The song quickly became popular both in the music halls which were dying out at the time and the Jazz Clubs which were on the rise.

Here’s a version of the song by Jazz violinist Joe Venuti and vocalist Harold Arlen, recorded in 1928.