Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What's the Reason (I'm Not Pleasin' You)
Words by Coy Poe and Jimmie Grier, Music by Pinky Tomlin and Earl Hatch
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
Vocal refrain by Carmen Lombardo
Recorded February 22, 1935
Decca 393

Times Square Lady was a 1935 film starring Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce and Pinky Tomlin. Songwriter Tomlin plays himself and introduces his own song "What's the Reason I'm not Pleasin' You" and probably his best known hit "The Object of My Affection."

A film clip of Pinky Tomlin singing this song can be found on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=xv4lAsw0NOo

Here is Betty Roth and Pinky Tomlin singing with the Jimmie Grier Orchestra. youtube.com/watch?v=UAgDDyCqSG8