BLUE EYES CRYING IN THE RAIN

Created on 03/12/2005
Latest update on 28/06/2023

Artist: Elton Britt
Author: Fred Rose
Label: RCA Victor
Year: 1947

Written by Fred Rose, Acuff's partner in the music publishing company that put Nashville on the map as a major music centre. Acuff-Rose Publishing worked as a magnet soon as they administred Hank Williams' catalogue ('46).

Covers:

1947:

Roy Acuff & His Smoky Mountain Boys [for Columbia; introduced the song on radio in '45]

1951:

Hank Williams [Mother's Best transcription]

1955:

Owen Bradley Quintet

1956:

Slim Whitman

1957:

Sons Of The Pioneers

1959:

Gene Vincent

1959:

Ferlin Husky

1962:

Duane Eddy

1962:

Hank Locklin

1966:

Frankie Yankovic [AmPol bandleader accordionist]

1968:

John D. Loudermilk

1970:

Conway Twitty

1975:

Willie Nelson [his first n°1 C&W]

1976:

Elvis Presley

1976:

Ace Cannon

1976:

Olivia Newton-John

1978:

Saskia & Serge

1978:

Bill Black's Combo

1981:

Carl Mann

1982:

Petula Clark

1982:

George Hamilton IV

1982:

Roger Whittaker

1984:

Eddy Arnold

1986:

Charley Pride

1991:

Alain Bashung

2006:

Sheryl Crow

2008:

Eva Cassidy [posthumous release]

2013:

UB40

2014:

Harry Dean Stanton

2019:

Mavericks

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