Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Am I Blue T13
1. Blue on Blue
2. Blue Christmas
3. Devil With a BlueDress On
4. My Baby Blue
5. Famous Blue Raincoat
6. My Blue Heaven
7. Tangled up in Blue
8. Subterranean Homesick Blues
9. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
10. Song Sung Blue
11. lovesick blues
12. North Country Blues
13. Blue Bayou
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Blueberry Hill.
ReplyDeleteAnda 1, anda 2... I found my thrill...
Yeah, thanks, JT
it's kinda like Name That Tune in four notes or less. And nothing takes me back faster than Fats Domino
DeleteYOUR BACKGROUND COLOR IS MY FAV
ReplyDeleteit beats the heck out of stripes, that's for sure. I picked it because it's the least offensive of the lot, at least for the eyes. And thank you
DeleteI want some Red roses for a blue lady. This dates me severely! Mr Florist, take my order please, we had a little quarrel the other day, hoping that the roses take her blues away, I want some etc etc.
ReplyDeleteThis is from what, the 50s? Back when songs had a narrative anyway, and your mom sang along while she washed the floor, favorite radio show playing.
Red Roses was part of an entire album of 'blue" songs put out by Bobby Vinton. I suspect many if not most of the early rock and roll stuff had been done decades before by people like the Inkspots and the Andrews Sister, and the new singers just borrowed the dickens out of them.
DeleteYes, I notice Dean Martin gets the credit. But my mom died years before his album came out, so yes, it's fifties BBC radio for "housewives". Funny that I remember so much of the lyric.
DeleteIf you go to YouTube and type in the name of the song, any song, you will get a string of who performed it, and possibly a bit about who wrote it, and when.
DeleteLots of these songs just came from the forties and 30s, because the people who were performing weren't writers, necessarily. Some of them, like the Everlys and Jimmy Clanton, had performer families so the music was familiar to them.
These days it's rare to see a song that's been written by 'just' a songwriter. It's an interesting kind of evolution.
It's an easy song to remember. Then again, when you hear it lebenty seven times in your (our) youth, it sort of wears its own sound track in the brain.
We end up playing a kind of "Name That Tune". =)
Wrote and lost a nice anecdote about teenage friend of mine, also teenager, who dropped in to see me, waited half an hour till I got home, listening to my mom in the kitchen singing, over and over, her fave, Just One More Chance. Left friend with permanent earworm.
Deletesome things stay with you a very long time. I believe Ron.Lavalette could attest to that. All I have to do is mention "Under the Boardwalk" and he is right there, howling at me.
DeleteMy own earworm is Roy Rogers' "Happy Trails to You", which was our theme song as ten year olds. It was almost the only song all of us knew, besides "HeyThere Hi There" from the Mousketeers...
oh. ow. Now they're both back, it's a danmn duet.
Did someone say Blue Suede Shoes? Joni Mitchell's song is now playing in my head.
ReplyDeleteblue suede shoes was Elvis, all the way. Carl Perkins wrote it, but Elvis "owned" it. I did see a frightening sight with Pat Boone singing it. ouch.
ReplyDeleteand i love Joni Mitchell. My favorite of hers is "River"...
You got me searching for Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue. :-)
ReplyDeleteFunny, I thought it was Billie Holiday, but try Crystal Gayle...
DeleteIt also helps to type in to the search engine, "songs with blue in them" and there's a list...