Bob Davie is an orchestra leader, pianist, and composer of popular music.
He composed the song "The Green Door," and led the orchestra which backed Jim Lowe on the best-selling version of the song in 1956. "(The) Green Door" is a 1956 popular song with music composed by Bob Davie and lyrics written by Marvin Moore. The lyrics describe a nondescript establishment, with a green door, behind which "a happy crowd" play piano, smoke and "laugh a lot," and inside which the singer is not allowed.
According to the website Songfacts, the lyrics were inspired by a popular music club in Dallas, Texas, where the kids who were not allowed in hung around outside a yellow door.[1] The color was then changed to green in the song because it "sounded better."
At the time the song was popular, many believed it was inspired by a green-doored restaurant and bar called "The Shack" in Columbia, Missouri, where singer Jim Lowe had attended the University of Missouri. Long-time Shack owner Joe Franke doubts this theory, however. [2]Bob Davie is an orchestra leader, pianist, and composer of popular music.
He composed the song "The Green Door," and led the orchestra which.