The Andrews Sisters
Artie Shaw
Vaughn Monroe
The Ames Brothers
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Hank Williams
Nellie Lutcher
Wynonie Harris
The Harmonicats
Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour and The Brazilians
Lead Belly
Dizzy Gillespie
Harry James & Helen Forrest
Pee Wee Crayton
Robert Nighthawk
Mahalia Jackson
Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman
Tampa Red
Cecil Gant
Tex Williams
Lena Horne
Will Bradley And His Orchestra featuring Ray McKinley
Ivory Joe Hunter
Jimmie Davis
Dinah Shore
Johnny Mercer & Paul Weston and His Orchestra & The Pied Pipers
Big Jay McNeely
Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Charles Brown
Dinah Washington
Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra
Frankie Laine
Julia Lee
Dooley Wilson
Margaret Whiting
Sonny Boy Williamson
Arthur Smith (Country)
The Orioles
Tommy Dorsey
Billy Eckstine
Al Dexter
Bill Monroe
Jimmy Witherspoon
Bob Wills
Louis Jordan
Les Brown
Delmore Brothers
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Woody Guthrie
Billie Holiday
T-Bone Walker
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Eddy Arnold
John Lee Hooker
Ernest Tubb
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Perry Como
Muddy Waters
Lonnie Johnson
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
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Roy Brown
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Ruth Brown
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Sammy Kaye
Red Foley
Lionel Hampton
Gene Autry
Sticks McGhee
Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers
The Nat “King” Cole Trio
Big Bill Broonzy
Al Jolson
Woody Herman
Xavier Cugat
Thelonious Monk
Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners
The entire song is just twelve lines long!
This is a good example of country music just after WW2; that’s why they called it Country and Western. If you weren’t into Hank Williams or the Carter Family, you listened to the Delmore Brothers.
It’s amazingly sparse, and it’s the opposite of many mo...
Blues stay away from me
Blues why don't you let me be
I don't know why you keep on haunting me
Love was never meant for me
True love was never meant for me
It seems somehow we never can agree
[Harmonica bridge]
Life is full of misery
Dreams are like a memory
Bringing back your love that used to be
Tears so many I can't see
Years don't mean a thing to me
Time goes by and still I can't be free
Blues Stay Away From Me was written by Henry Glover & Wayne Raney & Alton Delmore & Rabon Delmore.
Delmore Brothers released Blues Stay Away From Me on Wed Aug 31 1949.