SINGING THE BLUES

Created on 28/11/2000
Latest update on 13/10/2022

Artist: Marty Robbins
Author: Melvin Endsley
Label: Columbia
Year: 1956

First success for wheelchair-bound songwriter Melvin Endsley. On his demo (July '55) still called I Never Felt More Like Singing The Blues. Endsley's Knee Deep In The Blues, also cut during that session, became another hit in the hands of the same Marty Robbins, Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele.

Covers:

1956:

Guy Mitchell [n°1 US & UK, also for Columbia]

1956:

Tommy Steele & The Steelmen [n°1 UK upon hearing the Guy Mitchell version]

1956:

Roy Orbison

1957:

David Ross [alias Ross McManus, Elvis Costello's dad]

1957:

George Jones

1957:

Hank Snow

1959:

Eddy Arnold

1961:

Johnny Burnette

1961:

Don Gibson

1962:

Kay Starr

1963:

Dean Martin

1964:

Hugues Aufray [as Tout le long du chemin]

1965:

Wanda Jackson

1970:

Jerry Lee Lewis

1970:

John Sebastian

1971:

Black Oak Arkansas

1977:

Melvin Endsley [author]

1980:

Dave Edmunds

1980:

Eddy Mitchell [as Faut pas avoir le blues]

1980:

Will Tura [as Ik Zing De Blues]

1988:

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

1989:

Randy Travis

1991:

Paul McCartney

1992:

Kentucky Headhunters

2000:

Bert Jansch

2002:

Albert Lee & Hogan's Heroes

2002:

Anne Murray

Guy Mitchell's version held the US n°1 position for ten consecutive weeks. Only Elvis did better with his double A-sider Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog (11 weeks in '55), a record that endured the better part of the rock 'n roll era, but was wiped off the tables in the nineties. First by Boys II Men with End Of The Road (12 weeks in '92), later by Whitney Houston, All-4-One, Mariah Carey, Los Del Rio, Toni Braxton, Puff Daddy & Faith Evans, Elton John, Brandy & Monica, Santana...

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