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"Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously recorded by Elvis Presley, although it was first recorded by Doye O'Dell in 1948. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a longstanding staple of Christmas music , especially in the country genre.
Blue Christmas is a 1992 Christmas compilation album with songs sung by American singer and musician Elvis Presley. [1] [2] [3] [4] Elvis is accompanied by the vocal ...
The song was published by Elvis Presley's company Gladys Music, Inc. In the United States, it was released in November 1964 as the B-side to "Blue Christmas".Presley performed the song live during his Dinner Show concert at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas in 1975, a recording available on the Elvis Presley live album Dinner At Eight.
Elvis' Christmas Album (also reissued as It's Christmas Time) is the third studio album and first Christmas album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley on RCA Victor, LOC -1035, a deluxe limited edition, released October 15, 1957, and recorded at Radio Recorders in Hollywood.
The song also appeared on many subsequent compilations. The song was greatly reworked for the 2008 Presley album Christmas Duets, with new instruments combined with archival Presley vocals to create an artificial duet with Wynonna Judd. The song is the opening track on the 2017 album Christmas with Elvis and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
The album features archival vocal recordings of Elvis from the albums Elvis' Christmas Album (1957) and Elvis sings The Wonderful World of Christmas (1971) accompanied by new orchestral arrangements by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. [5] A deluxe edition of the album, which contains four new tracks, was released on November 24, 2017.
Elvis began his singing career with Sun Records label in Memphis. [1] Phillips signed Presley after hearing a song that he had recorded for his mother on his birthday. Phillips said that Presley was rehearsing with his band, Scotty Moore and Bill Black , when Presley started singing the song, a blues song written by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup .
I once saw this song performed on TV by a fellow with an acoustic guitar. He performed it as though Porky Pig was singing "Blue Christmas". This rendition of the song is intended to be comical and succeeds quite well in that regard, I think, because a woman in the background starts giggling partway through the song and ends up in full on laughter.