A Basketful of Blue Songs
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The Color Blue Figures Prominently In Many Songs
Alot of random thoughts flow through my head
each day. There are a lot of "whys" and "hows." One of them, after listening to a song with blue figuring prominently in the title and lyrics, got me to wondering, "How many songs are there with blue as part of the title or lyrics?" So I set about listing all the ones I could think of and then I went to the internet to do some searching to find a few more. I had to draw a distinction from blue singular to someone who had the "blues." If they sang about the blues, they were left out in the cold. But if they merely said they were blue, they were included. This lens is the result of my blue efforts. If I were an artist this would be my blue period. Hope you like what you read. Thanks.
each day. There are a lot of "whys" and "hows." One of them, after listening to a song with blue figuring prominently in the title and lyrics, got me to wondering, "How many songs are there with blue as part of the title or lyrics?" So I set about listing all the ones I could think of and then I went to the internet to do some searching to find a few more. I had to draw a distinction from blue singular to someone who had the "blues." If they sang about the blues, they were left out in the cold. But if they merely said they were blue, they were included. This lens is the result of my blue efforts. If I were an artist this would be my blue period. Hope you like what you read. Thanks.
Table of Contents
- Blue Used In Many Areas Of Life
- Fats Sings My Blue Heaven
- Great Stuff on Amazon
- More Blue Songs Highlighted By Devil In A Blue Dress
- YouTube
- Blue Moon by the Marcels Tops The Blue Lineup
- George Thorogood Is Bad To The Bone On This Blue Song
- Winning These Blue Auctions Won't Make You Sad
- Ella Fitzgerald Rocks With Blue Skies
- Ella Makes Blue Skies Come Alive
- CafePress
- Who Was Willie Talking About In His Song Pretty Paper?
- Did you know? Random Facts
- My Lenses
- What Makes A Song Memorable?
- Featured Lenses
- Don't Make Me Blue
Blue Used In Many Areas Of Life
Blue rhyme appeal makes it easy to use in a lot of songs
Blue is one of our most popular colors. If you use it on your website links it has been shown to get higher rates of people clicking on it. Our skies are blue, the oceans are blue and the bird of happiness is blue. On the other hand, some shades of blue can have a negative effect on us, giving feeling of depression and coldness. If that occurs you are said to have the blues. When you are freezing from cold you turn blue. And while Irving Berlin sang of "Blue skies smilin' at me," Fats Domino sang about "Blue Monday,"
As a cool spectrum color blue can mean tranquility, peace, calmness, harmony, stability, trust, truth, conservatism, security, confidence, order, cleanliness, loyalty, the sky, water, technology, and depression. In hospitals they call Code Blue on occasion when generally referring to a patient is having heart failure or cardiac arrest. The color can lower body temperatures, cut appetite reduce pulse rates, and because it shows reliability blue is often used as a business color.
Plus, blue is a great word to rhyme with you, shoe and anything with that ooh, ooh sound.
My first three blue songs, in no particular order are:
Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle
My Blue Heaven by Fats Domino
Some of you may not know it but Crystal Gayle is the younger sister of country music great Loretta Lynn. If you haven't seen the bio pic of Loretta Lynn's life, "Coal Miner's Daughter," see it. The movie is truly inspirational.
Good golly, Miss Molly, you would not believe the number of singers who have recorded "My Blue Heaven" since its first release in 1927. Crooner Gene Austin got a hit with it 1928, and people have been doing well with the song ever since. The Smashing Pumpkins even did a version of the song also. (Fats has nothing to worry about. You have to go a long way to beat his version.)
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As a cool spectrum color blue can mean tranquility, peace, calmness, harmony, stability, trust, truth, conservatism, security, confidence, order, cleanliness, loyalty, the sky, water, technology, and depression. In hospitals they call Code Blue on occasion when generally referring to a patient is having heart failure or cardiac arrest. The color can lower body temperatures, cut appetite reduce pulse rates, and because it shows reliability blue is often used as a business color.
Plus, blue is a great word to rhyme with you, shoe and anything with that ooh, ooh sound.
My first three blue songs, in no particular order are:
Blue Bayou by Linda Ronstadt
Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by Crystal Gayle
My Blue Heaven by Fats Domino
Some of you may not know it but Crystal Gayle is the younger sister of country music great Loretta Lynn. If you haven't seen the bio pic of Loretta Lynn's life, "Coal Miner's Daughter," see it. The movie is truly inspirational.
Good golly, Miss Molly, you would not believe the number of singers who have recorded "My Blue Heaven" since its first release in 1927. Crooner Gene Austin got a hit with it 1928, and people have been doing well with the song ever since. The Smashing Pumpkins even did a version of the song also. (Fats has nothing to worry about. You have to go a long way to beat his version.)
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Fats Sings My Blue Heaven
The songs talks of a traditional life many of us yearn for
A lot of people have sang "My Blue Heaven" and a lot of people have been successful with it. But I like Antoine "Fats" Domino's version the best. When you think about the lyrics this song has many traditional elements in what American people are looking for in their lives. "When whippoorwill calls, and evening is nigh (near), I hurry to my blue heaven."
Here you could say that at the end of the day he is heading for home to a place that he loves. And what does he see when he gets there? "A smilin' face, a fireplace, a cozy room, a little place that nestles where the roses bloom." Man, I want that place!
Here you could say that at the end of the day he is heading for home to a place that he loves. And what does he see when he gets there? "A smilin' face, a fireplace, a cozy room, a little place that nestles where the roses bloom." Man, I want that place!
Great Stuff on Amazon
More Blue Songs Highlighted By Devil In A Blue Dress
Devil in a blue dress was also a great novel by Walter Mosley
Venus in Blue Jeans by Jimmy Clanton
Devil With a Blue Dress by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Mr. Blue Sky by ELO
Blue Angel by Roy Orbison
Rock On (Blue Jean Baby Queen) by Davie Essex
Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino (this one is kind of cheating since its about a blueberry and not just blue, but I like the song).
Blue Side of Lonesome by Jim Reeves
Devil With a Blue Dress by Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
Mr. Blue Sky by ELO
Blue Angel by Roy Orbison
Rock On (Blue Jean Baby Queen) by Davie Essex
Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino (this one is kind of cheating since its about a blueberry and not just blue, but I like the song).
Blue Side of Lonesome by Jim Reeves
Roy Orbison
David Essex
Jim Reeves
YouTube
Blue Moon by the Marcels Tops The Blue Lineup
Blue Monday by Fats DominoBlue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins
Blue Highway by George Thorogood (If you haven't heard it before give it a listen. It's a great song.)
House of Blue Lights by Chuck Miller (Boy! Just about everyone has done a version of this song. I listened to most of them to see which I liked the best. The Chuck Miller version won out, though the original Freddie Slack version with Ella Mae Morse and is also exceptional.)
Blue Moon by the Marcels
Blue by Leann Rimes
Carl Perkins
George Thorogood
Leann Rimes
"Blue Moon" was written in 1933 by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for a Metro-Goldwyn Mayer production. It didn't make it into the movie. It went through a number of lyric revisions before it got to what is mostly used by the Marcels in their 1961 hits. You would not believe the number of singers who have sang this song. Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, and Rod Stewart to name just a few. But the Marcel's doo wop version is the most notable and the one that went Gold selling a million copies.
The story goes that the Marcels had three songs left to record in 1961 for their album they were making and needed one more. Their producer Stu Phillips asked them if they knew either "Heart and Soul" or "Blue Moon," because the chord changes were the same. One of the members knew "Blue Moon" and taught it to the others. The rest is music history.
"Blue Moon" by the Marcels rocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Pop chart for three weeks and No. 1 on the R&B charts. Even in the UK it hit No. 1 on the singles chart. Their version of the song is featured in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
"Blue" (I'm so lonesome for you) by LeAnn Rimes. Man, the first time I heard this tune I thought it was a Patsy Cline song. I was driving a big rig through Pennsylvania and down through Maryland. I kept tuning to new radio stations hoping to hear it again.
George Thorogood Is Bad To The Bone On This Blue Song
Blue-rock guitarist George Thorogood had aspirations to be a major league baseball player and was recruited and working in the minors when he decided to on music as a career in 1970 when he saw Paul Hammond, also a blues-rock muscian and singer-songwriter, in concert. Three years after this event he started the Destroyers and the rest is history.
Winning These Blue Auctions Won't Make You Sad
Ella Fitzgerald Rocks With Blue Skies
Blue Skies has been recorded by nearly 60 recording artists
Blue Eyes by Elton John
Blue Christmas by Elvis Pressley
Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald
Blue on Blue by Bobby Vinton
Am I Blue by Eddie Cochran
Bobby Vinton helped me out a little with this lens when he put out an album in 1963 devoted to blue songs. Thanks, Bobby.
All these artists names starts with "EL". Just an observation. I didn't design it that way. "Blue Skies" has been recorded by nearly 60 artists or groups including Brent Spiner, who played the android character Data in "Star Trek: Next Generation," in a film version of the show. The song has also appeared in 14 movies.
Blue Christmas by Elvis Pressley
Blue Skies by Ella Fitzgerald
Blue on Blue by Bobby Vinton
Am I Blue by Eddie Cochran
Bobby Vinton helped me out a little with this lens when he put out an album in 1963 devoted to blue songs. Thanks, Bobby.
All these artists names starts with "EL". Just an observation. I didn't design it that way. "Blue Skies" has been recorded by nearly 60 artists or groups including Brent Spiner, who played the android character Data in "Star Trek: Next Generation," in a film version of the show. The song has also appeared in 14 movies.
Elton John
Ella Fitzgerald
Elvis Pressley
Blue Morning, Blue Day by Foreigner
Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain by Willie Nelson
Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton
I'm Mr. Blue by The Fleetwoods
Crystal Blue Persuasion by Tommy James and the Shondells
Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain by Willie Nelson
Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton
I'm Mr. Blue by The Fleetwoods
Crystal Blue Persuasion by Tommy James and the Shondells
Ella Makes Blue Skies Come Alive
It's a happy person who goes around singing "Blue Skies"
When you hear the first verse in this song it is not just a happy person who wrote this song, it's also an optimistic person. "Blue skies, smilin; at me (happy). Nothing but blue skies do I see (optimistic).It's a great song and it easy to see why so many people have recorded it.
curated content from YouTube
CafePress
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Who Was Willie Talking About In His Song Pretty Paper?
Nelson was talking about a handicapped man selling pencils and paper
Pretty Paper (Pretty Ribbons of Blue) by Willie Nelson
Country music legend Willie Nelson early in his career worked at a Fort Worth radio station. As he left the station he noticed a cripple man, no legs, who pushed himself around on a board with wheels. He worked various areas around Fort Worth selling pencils and paper.
Blue Destiny by Neil Diamond
This is one of Neil's early songs done in 1958. It has a folk feel to it. Neil is reported to have said about the song: What Neil had to say about this song: "This was the first song that had an emotional effect on me. The others were just words and music that started at the same time and ended at the same time and maybe had some pretty things in them. I know this was my fifth song because I made a mental note to try and keep doing whatever I was doing on 'Blue Destiny.' For me it had a uniqueness and an honesty that made me feel as though I could be a real writer at some point."
Blue Highway by Neil Diamond
Blue On Blue by Bobby Vinton
Blue Moon of Kentucky by Elvis Pressley
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Written by Bluegrass great Bill Monroe in 1946, the song was inducted in 2002 into the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In addition, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" was voted No. 11 on its 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
Country music legend Willie Nelson early in his career worked at a Fort Worth radio station. As he left the station he noticed a cripple man, no legs, who pushed himself around on a board with wheels. He worked various areas around Fort Worth selling pencils and paper.
Blue Destiny by Neil Diamond
This is one of Neil's early songs done in 1958. It has a folk feel to it. Neil is reported to have said about the song: What Neil had to say about this song: "This was the first song that had an emotional effect on me. The others were just words and music that started at the same time and ended at the same time and maybe had some pretty things in them. I know this was my fifth song because I made a mental note to try and keep doing whatever I was doing on 'Blue Destiny.' For me it had a uniqueness and an honesty that made me feel as though I could be a real writer at some point."
Blue Highway by Neil Diamond
Blue On Blue by Bobby Vinton
Blue Moon of Kentucky by Elvis Pressley
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" - Written by Bluegrass great Bill Monroe in 1946, the song was inducted in 2002 into the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In addition, "Blue Moon of Kentucky" was voted No. 11 on its 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music.
Bill Monroe
Bobby Vinton
Neil Diamond
Did you know? Random Facts
Many Greek structures such as doors, windowsills, furniture, and church domes are painted a turquoise blue, especially in the Cyclades Islands. It is used because of an ancient belief that this shade of blue keeps evil away. Ancient Greeks called the color kyanos, which the words "cyan" and "cyanide" are derived from.
Romans discovered that mixing lead with wine not only helped preserve wine, but also gave it a sweet taste and succulent texture. Chronic lead poisoning has often been cited as one of the causes of the decline of Rome.
Some historians blame President Woodrow Wilson's (1856-1924) lingering case of the Spanish flu as the reason he unexpectedly caved into stringent French demands for the harsh peace terms that decimated Germany which, in turn, led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and WWII (1939-1945).
According to popular legend, tea was discovered by the Chinese emperor Shennong in 2737 B.C. when a tea leaf fell into his boiling water. The Chinese consider tea to be a necessity of life.
The blue whale can weigh over 200 tons but feeds exclusively on krill a crustacean smaller than a child's finger. The massive mammals gain much of their weight while they are nursed by their mothers, with a blue whale calf gaining approximately 250 pounds every day during its first three weeks of life.
In Star Trek: The Original Series, uniform colors indicated the wearer's role on the Enterprise. Gold uniforms indicated the wearer was on a command track. Blue meant the sciences, including medicine. Red indicated support services, such as communications, engineering, or security.
Romans discovered that mixing lead with wine not only helped preserve wine, but also gave it a sweet taste and succulent texture. Chronic lead poisoning has often been cited as one of the causes of the decline of Rome.
Some historians blame President Woodrow Wilson's (1856-1924) lingering case of the Spanish flu as the reason he unexpectedly caved into stringent French demands for the harsh peace terms that decimated Germany which, in turn, led to the rise of Adolf Hitler and WWII (1939-1945).
According to popular legend, tea was discovered by the Chinese emperor Shennong in 2737 B.C. when a tea leaf fell into his boiling water. The Chinese consider tea to be a necessity of life.
The blue whale can weigh over 200 tons but feeds exclusively on krill a crustacean smaller than a child's finger. The massive mammals gain much of their weight while they are nursed by their mothers, with a blue whale calf gaining approximately 250 pounds every day during its first three weeks of life.
In Star Trek: The Original Series, uniform colors indicated the wearer's role on the Enterprise. Gold uniforms indicated the wearer was on a command track. Blue meant the sciences, including medicine. Red indicated support services, such as communications, engineering, or security.
My Lenses
What Makes A Song Memorable?
My theory on what makes a memorable song is the tune has to be simple, catchy, and hummable. If you can't hum a song while you are doing the dishes or washing the car, no one is going to remember it. Which song do you remember best: "3 Blind Mice," or Celine Dion's "Titanic" theme love song?
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Don't Make Me Blue
Tell Me What You Think About Blue Songs - Did I Miss Any?
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JoshK47
Jan 30, 2012 @ 4:52 pm | delete
- Some wonderful songs here - love 'em! Blessed by a SquidAngel!
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waldenthree.net
Dec 28, 2011 @ 7:25 pm | delete
- Appreciating your topoic. Blues is big in Metro Washington DC ! Congrads on reaching the Squidoo Level. Go for next. Feel free to use some ideas from my lenses on music. Wow, I just got an idea from you ! Thanks.
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fugeecat
Dec 25, 2011 @ 6:16 pm | delete
- Great list of songs.
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