Blueberry Hill (song)

Blueberry Hill is an evergreen popular music and was particularly made ​​famous by the cover version of Fats Domino from 1956.

Genesis

Was composed of the pop song by Vincent Rose ( music), Al Lewis and Larry Stock ( text ) for the movie The Singing Hill, on 26 April 1941 had premiere. The first music publisher rejected the composition, because blueberries would not grow on hills; Floor, however, assured that he had collected there in his youth. However, the song is not about blueberries ( bilberries), but from a hill named after them, on which fell the singer. Only when the music publisher Chappell & Co. (now part of the Warner Group ) of the title was accepted. In its emergence in 1940, he was a total of six recorded. The original comes from the Sammy Kaye Orchestra, which first opened the song with singer Tommy Ryan on May 31, 1940 ( # 26643 Victor ). On June 3 In 1940, a version of Gene Krupa ( Okeh # 5672 ), just ten days later, on June 13, 1940 was Glenn Miller and his orchestra in the studio to record his version of it. Gene Autry was followed on 20 August 1940 and its version was used for the Western The Singing Hill, who came on April 26, 1941 Gene Autry in the lead role in the movie theaters. Successful of the published versions in 1940 was that of Glenn Miller. Only nine years later was followed by a version with Louis Armstrong and Gordon Jenkins Orchestra of 6 September 1949.

Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Blueberry Hill

Louis Armstrong & Gordon Jenkins Orchestra - Blueberry Hill

Million Sellers by Fats Domino

Dominos version probably based on Armstrong's version from 1949. Exceptionally was not recorded in New Orleans at Cosimo Matassa, but starting June 26, 1956 in Los Angeles at the studios of master recorder with guitarist Justin Adams and Ernest McLean and bassist Billy Diamond. Producer Dave Bartholomew did not want to take the title because he had already appeared often as a single. Fats, however, insisted, however, was not able to completely memorize the entire text. Therefore originated from any coherent text passage one take, so on the compilation of many takes, ultimately the Single Blueberry Hill / Honey Chile is based, which was released in September 1956 as Imperial # 5407. Within just two weeks, two million copies were sold, generating Domino could already boast the fourth million-seller of his career. His uptempo version with the perfected Creole accent, which he presented in his first ever live TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show on 18 November 1956 to 1957 sold worldwide a total of five million copies and was the biggest hit of his career.

Statistics

While Sammy Kay's original did not come in the charts, Glenn Miller reached herewith for a week the first rank of the pop charts. A note next Hit Parade there was only then for the version by Fats Domino. While his title spent eleven weeks No. 1 R & B charts, it was with a second place in the pop charts to Dominos most successful crossover. Domino's version was one of three titles that were represented in 1956 in all the U.S. charts. The ASCAP has registered a total of 65 versions of Blueberry Hill. In February 1987, Blueberry Hill was inducted into the NARAS Hall of Fame.