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"I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" is the title of a country/folk song by A. P. Carter. A. P. Carter was a collector of old songs and lyrics. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes is one of these old songs he discovered and it is said to be adapted from "The Prisoner's Song" by Guy Massey. [1]
The tune is the same apparently traditional melody used in the songs "Thrills That I Can't Forget," recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz for Gennett in 1925, and the song "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes," originally recorded by the Carter Family for Victor in 1929.
"The Great Speckled Bird" and "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" are earlier adaptations of the same tune and have been recorded by country artists such as Kitty Wells, Slim Whitman and Gene Autry. Similar lyrics and crossover versions containing lyrics from all four songs have also been recorded.
Tell Me That You Love Me / I‘m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes (Shellac, 10") Montgomery Ward M-4230 Unknown Honey In The Rock (Shellac, 10") Montgomery Ward 8024 Unknown Two Sweethearts / The Broken-hearted Lover (Shellac, 10") Montgomery Ward M-4433 Unknown
are set to an apparently traditional tune used in the song "Thrills That I Can't Forget" recorded by Welby Toomey and Edgar Boaz in 1925, and more familiarly in the Carter Family's "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" recorded in February, 1929, as well as the Rev. Guy Smith's "Great Speckled Bird"—popularized in 1936 by Roy Acuff. [12]
He scored two solo hits with versions of "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes" [1] and Ernest Tubb's "Walking the Floor Over You". On May 5, 1942, in his last session before joining the United States Army , he and Bonnie Blue Eyes recorded "Pins and Needles (In My Heart)" by Fred Rose , which charted for most of 1943, and went on to become a ...
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In 2009, the band Lulu and the Lampshades combined the song "When I'm Gone" with a common children's game known as the cup game, in which cups are tapped and hit on a table to create a distinct rhythm. This created the modern version of the song known as "Cups (When I'm Gone)" or alternately "When I'm Gone (Cups)".