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"Singing the Blues" is a popular song composed by Melvin Endsley and published in 1956. The highest-charting version was by Guy Mitchell and the first recording of the song was by Marty Robbins . It is not related to the 1920 jazz song " Singin' the Blues " recorded by Frank Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke in 1927.
"Singing in Viet Nam Talking Blues" (or "Singin' in Viet Nam Talkin' Blues") is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released in May 1971 [3] [4] as the second single (Columbia 4-45393, with "You've Got a New Light Shining" on the opposite side) [5] from Cash's that year's album Man in Black, [6] the song reached #18 on U.S. Billboard 's country chart [7] and #124 on ...
[a] Cash Box described it as having "top shuffle-rhythm blues sounds." [ 9 ] In 1965, Mississippi bluesman Fred McDowell recorded it as a slow, slide guitar hill country blues solo piece. The song generally follows a seven-bar or an eight-bar blues arrangement and has been compared to " Sitting on Top of the World ". [ 10 ]
Traditional blues verses in folk-music tradition have also been called floating lyrics or maverick stanzas.Floating lyrics have been described as “lines that have circulated so long in folk communities that tradition-steeped singers call them instantly to mind and rearrange them constantly, and often unconsciously, to suit their personal and community aesthetics”.
[11] The Commercial Appeal determined that Whoopin ' "is destined for 'classic' status," writing that "every cut is raw, lean, and mean." [13] The Omaha World-Herald stated that Terry plays "a mean harmonica on 10 rocking blues numbers." [16] The Lincoln Journal Star determined that "Terry achieves something that's electrified, but not modernly ...
The New York Times panned the first side of Love Me Tender, calling it "bland, countrypolitan elevator music," but thought more highly of side two's "first-rate after-hours blues." [ 7 ] The Globe and Mail wrote that "the singing is lugubrious, the playing is by rote, and the sound is so lush that King can barely be heard above it."
In 1967, Mitch Ryder got to number 87 with a live medley of this song and "Chantilly Lace". In 1974, Jackie Robinson, lead singer of The Pioneers, released a reggae version in the UK on Trojan Records' subsidiary label Horse. [7] Jerry Lee Lewis released a country and western version on his 1979 album, Jerry Lee Lewis. [8]
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.