[Dixielandjazz] Re: House Cleaning Blues

[Bill Haesler]

on 14/12/03 5:20 PM, John Farrell at stridepiano at tesco.net wrote:

> Does anybody know who wrote the music for the song "The House Cleaning
Blues" sung by Betty Boop in the cartoon movie of the same name ......... am
beginning to think that the studio might have employed a stable of anonymous
tunesmiths who churned out this kind of stuff on demand.<

Dear John,
You are probably right.
The sound clip I found on the internet is an uninspired George Formy style
tune.
This Paramount cartoon, "House Cleaning Blues" (with Mae Questal as the
voice of Betty Boop), was released in Jan 1937.
Kind regards,
Bill.