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During the 1920s, Robison recorded extensively for [[Perfect Records]], with scores of vocal recordings accompanying himself on piano (displaying his rather eccentric stride piano style), as well as "Deep River Orchestra" recordings using standard stock arrangements (including many popular and obscure songs) One recording was his fox trot arrangement of George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody In Blue'' on both sides of Perfect 14825 and Pathe 36644.<ref>Art Deco: The Crooners, Various Artists, Sony, CD, 1993. Liner notes by Michael Brooks.</ref>
In [[Alec Wilder]]'s definitive study, ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950'', the songwriter and critic writes of Robison: <blockquote>He, if ever there was one, was the maverick among song writers. Everyone loved him and many tried to help him, among them [[Johnny Mercer|John Mercer]]. [[Mildred Bailey]] revered him and sang every song of his she could lay her hands on...He did manage, during his almost euphoric life, to write a few successful songs--''[[A Cottage for Sale]]'', and ''<nowiki/>'Taint so, My Honey, 'Taint So''--but generally his songs were known only to a few singers and lovers of the off-beat and the non-urban song. He had a special flair for gentleness and childhood, the lost and the religious.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950|last=Wilder|first=Alec|publisher=Oxford|year=1990|isbn=0-19-501445-6|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/americanpopulars00alec/page/460 460–461]|orig-year=1972|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americanpopulars00alec/page/460}}</ref></blockquote>
Wilder concludes that although Robison's songs may not have significantly influenced the development of American popular song, "[I]f they could so much bolster John Mercer's conviction that there was more to write lyrics about than city life, that the world of memory, of remembered sayings and scenes, was as evocative as the whispered words of lovers, then he did make a contribution." <ref name=":0" />
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