answer:Take your pick straight out of artsites.ucsc.edu vvvvvv vvvvvvvvv House of Blue Lights Gary Haggerty, of the Berklee College of Music, informs me that The House of Blue Lights was a Chicago after hours club. It was connected to the El Grotto (owned by Earl Hines) at the Pershing Hotel in the mid-1940’s. The song, “House of Blue Lights”, words and music by Freddie Slack and Don Raye, (1947), gives some idea of what, generaically, a house of blue lights is: Lace up your boots and we’ll broom on down To a knocked out shack on the edge of town There’s an eight beat combo that just won’t quit Keep walkin’ ‘til you see a blue light lit Fall in there and we’ll see some sights At the house of blue lights chorus There’s fryers and broilers and Detroit barbeque ribs But the treat of the treats is when they serve you all those fine eight beats You’ll want to spend the rest of your nights Down at the house, The house of blue lights We’ll have a time and we’ll cut some rug While we dig those tunes like they should be dug It’s a real home comin’ for all the “Cats” Just trilly down a path of welcome mats Fall in there and we’ll see some sights At the house of blue lights (c) 1946 Robbins Music This song has been recorded by an impressive array of performers: * The Andrews Sisters * Asleep At The Wheel * Chuck Berry * Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen * The Flamin’ Groovies * John Lee Hooker * George Thorogood and the Destroyers * Mitch Woods and the Rocket 88’s