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Roebie Kirk w/ Tab Smith and His Orchestra - Where Is Your Husband At? ~1945

Winfield Scott, who went by Roebie (or Robie)Kirk when doing the actual singing, was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on November 27, 1920. As a boy, he was always looking for ways to make money by helping neighbors and doing chores or selling newspapers. I was unable to find anything about how he got started in the music business. The earliest information I was able to find was a discography of indie labels started by Mayo Williams, on which Kirk would perform quite a bit with saxophonist Tab Smith. Some of Kirk's first recordings came from mid 1945, almost simultaneously releasing on King, Harlem, and 20th Century record labels. In September of 1945, Roebie, with the backing of the uncredited Tab Smith and his Orchestra, recorded today's song, "Where Is Your Husband At?" for the Queen label. They would record together through 1945 and into 1946. Everything goes a bit dark for a while as Kirk became more focused on songwriting than performing, that is until 1954 when Atlantic Records pianist and arranger, Jesse Stone, asks Kirk to join a label standard quartet backing group that would later be called "The Cues". Oddly enough, the Cues would never actually record for Atlantic under their own name. Each artist had a "different" backup group: Ruth Brown (Rhythmakers), Lavern Baker (Gliders), Ivory Joe Hunter (Ivorytones), Joe Turner (Blues Kings), Charlie White (Playboys), all of which used certain members of The Cues, so it's difficult to tell what other songs Roebie would have sang in. He maintained songwriting while working for Atlantic, and actually scored his biggest hits during that time period. He would write the LaVern Baker hit "Tweedle Dee" (and sang backup in it as well). He wrote the song "Many Tears Ago" for Connie Francis (1960) which reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, and in 1962 would get his biggest hit while co-writing with Otis Blackwell, scoring the Elvis Presley hit "Return To Sender" which hit number 1 in he UK and peaked at number 2 in the US. The duo also wrote a version of the title track for the Elvis movie "Roustabout", however just before release, producer Hal Wallis preferred the version written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum, and Florence Kaye. This wasn't revealed until 2003 which launched a frenzy to find the lost Elvis recording which was eventually found and released on the 2003 Elvis compilation album "2nd To None". Scott would pass away in 2015 at the age of 94.