"The House of Blue Lights" is a boogie woogie-style popular song written by Don Raye and Freddie Slack.
Published in 1946, it was first recorded by Slack with singer Ella Mae Morse and Raye.
The song's intro includes a "hipster"-style spoken exchange: A single review in Billboard magazine included similar hipster parlance: For back-room boogie with a mellow eight-to-the-bar kick, la [sic] Moore teams her tobacco pipes to the Black rhythm wing, giving big-time treatment to a small-time tune.
Dialog patter between Miss Moore and the tune's cleffer, Don Raye, is clever but takes up too much surface.
[2] "The House of Blue Lights" has been recorded by a variety of musical artists.