Song

Singing the Blues: GUY MITCHELL

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Australian singles chart:
Singing the Blues entered the Kent charts on 9 February 1957 and peaked at #1. It was #5 on the Top 100 of 1957.

Songwriter:
Melvin Endsley

Producer:
Mitch Miller

Record label of Australian release:
Coronet

From the YouTube channel: ‘Guy Mitchell – Topic’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.
From the YouTube channel: ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

BONUS CLIP BELOW – original version by Marty Robbins

Songfacts:
Singing the Blues was written by 20-year-old American Country singer Melvin Endsley in 1954. Endsley was a childhood victim of polio who spent his life in a wheelchair. It was first aired on KWCB radio the following year and it was so well-received that Endsley took it to Nashville to try to sell it. There he met Marty Robbins, who recorded the song on Columbia in August 1956 and it climbed the charts eventually peaking at #17 and topping the country list for 13 weeks.
Guy Mitchell was also on Columbia and he was given the song to cover in a more poppy style. His version reached #1 in the US charts in December 1956 and stayed there for nine weeks, outselling and outplaying the Marty Robbins version.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/guy-mitchell/singing-the-blues

Lyrics

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BONUS CLIP
The song was first recorded and released by Marty Robbins. It made the Country charts in the USA but didn’t sell in Australia.

From the YouTube channel: ‘MartyRobbinsVEVO’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

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