Dick Robertson (

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, July 3, 1903 – 1979) was an American popular

big band A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s ...

singer and

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

of the 1930s and 1940s. He sang for many bandleaders such as

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and

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and His Orchestra, and was on the artist roster at

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. In fact, he was one of the most prolific New York based vocalists (along with Irving Kaufman,

Chick Bullock Charles (Chick) Bullock (September 16, 18981900 U.S. Federal Census, Township #5, Silver Bow, Montana, enumeration district 90, page 5. Bullock's birth date is confirmed by his entries in the Social Security Death Index and the California Death ...

Scrappy Lambert Harold "Scrappy" Lambert (May 12, 1901 – November 30, 1987, in New Brunswick, New Jersey) was an American Big band, dance band vocalist who appeared on hundreds of recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s. At Rutgers University he was a cheer ...

, Elmer Feldkamp, Paul Small and

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) on scores of records from late 1928 through the mid 1930s. A series of records issued on Melotone/Perfect/Banner/Oriole/Romeo, Crown, Bluebird from 1930-1934 were issued under his name or are listed in the 2010 edition of ''"American Dance Bands on Record and Film (1915-1942)"'' by Richard J. Johnson and Bernard H. Shirley as being under his nominal leadership. His last recording session as a singer was in 1949. He also used the pseudonym Bob Richardson for some recordings on Mayfair Records. As a songwriter his biggest hit was " We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" in 1940.Warren W. Vaché The unsung songwriters: America's masters of melodies 2000 p403 "Anybody who bought popular records during the thirties and forties would be familiar with his voice. Besides performing as a vocalist, Robertson also doubled as a songwriter, collaborating on a number of very respectable entries in the popular field. His biggest hit was the wistful ballad We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me), a 1940 " The Sinatra version of the song was re-released on '' The Song Is You (album)'' and again on '' Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra''. Jukebox Ella: The Complete Verve Singles, Vol. 1

As songwriter

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I'd Do It All Over Again "I'd Do It All Over Again" is a hit 1945 song by Dick Robertson, Frank Weldon and James Cavanaugh. It was recorded by the orchestras of Hal McIntyre and again by Frankie Carle Frankie Carle (born Francis Nunzio Carlone, March 25, 1903 – March ...

", 1945, co-written with Frank Weldon and James Cavanaugh.

As singer

* "

Singin' in the Bathtub "Singing in the Bathtub" is a song written in 1929 by Michael H. Cleary, with lyrics by Herb Magidson and Ned Washington for the film ''The Show of Shows''. ''The Show of Shows'' was Warner Bros.' answer to MGM's '' The Hollywood Revue of 1929 ...

", 1929 * "Lazy Day", 1932 * "Lovable", 1932 * "If I Ever Get a Job Again", 1933

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* " All I Do Is Dream of You", 1934 * " She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor", 1940 - banned by the BBC * " Any Bonds Today?", 1940 * " Ferryboat Serenade", 1941 - Number 1 in Australia * " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time", 1945

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