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Lovesick Blues" became his signature song, which he used to close his shows. [27] It was also his first number one hit, and garnered Williams the stage nicknames of "The Lovesick Blues Boy" and "Mr. Lovesick Blues". [28] In 1949, the singer received second billing behind Eddy Arnold on the list of the "Year's Top Selling Folk Artists". [27]
Ramsey's performance sparked new interest in Hank Williams' 70-year-old recording of the song and in March Rolling Stone reported that Spotify's Viral 50 chart for the U.S. ranked Williams' "Lovesick Blues" at number three, and number four around the globe. As a result of his newfound fame Ramsey made an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
A new version of the song (with accompanying vocals by Kate & Anna McGarrigle) which had a completely different tempo than the original, was made into an animated short film entitled Blackfly by Christopher Hinton and the National Film Board in 1991, and was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 64th Academy Awards, [1] and for Best ...
Blue yodeling [1] ( meaning 'melancholy yodeling') is a musical style that essentially consists of a combination of elements of blues and old-time music, enriched with characteristic yodelings. Initially sometimes referred to as yodeling blues , it reached its greatest popularity during the 1920s and 1930s in the United States, Canada and ...
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" is quite similar in form and style to Williams' previous number-one hit "Lovesick Blues".Biographer Colin Escott speculates that Hank deliberately utilized the similar title, tempo, and yodels because, although he had scored five top-5 hits since "Lovesick Blues" had topped the charts, he had not had another number one. [4]
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Like his number one hit "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" earlier in the year, "Moanin' the Blues" followed the same blueprint as "Lovesick Blues," and showcases his skills as a singer and Rose's ear for production: "Once again, he left plenty of windows for yodels and flashes of trailing falsetto. The end result was greater than the sum of its parts.
In 2013, The Replacements released a cover version on their EP Songs for Slim, a fundraiser for Slim Dunlap. A version filmed during a rehearsal appears in the Tom Petty documentary Runnin' Down a Dream. The first song played on every episode of the WMBR radio show Lost Highway is a rotating cover version of the eponymous song. [7]