So let me ask you. What is your mood right now? How blue… are you?
Let’s see if any of these songs bring you out of your blueness.
THE FOUR FRESHMEN
It’s a Blue World
Listen carefully… This is true vocal harmony. Enjoy.
THE FLEETWOODS
Mr. Blue
Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher and Barbara Ellis. Sparkling vocal harmony from the Pacific Northwest. Awessomeness.
MILES DAVIS
Kind of Blue
On the eighth day, God gave Miles Davis a trumpet. And He said, “This is cool.”
MICHAEL JOHNSON
Bluer than Blue
You could dismiss Michael Johnson as a one-hit wonder. But he had at least one more hit than you did. 🙂
PIXIE WILLIAMS
Blue Smoke
I know this sounds like an old Hawaiian slack key guitar song… but Pixie Williams actually took this song to #1 in several Oceanic countries in the 1950’s.
DOMENICO MODUGNO
Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu (Volare)
The song is actually NOT called “Volare.” The original title is supposed to be something along the lines of “Blue, painted with blue.”
ELVIS PRESLEY
Blue Moon
Elvis had several different “blue” songs – “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Blue Christmas,” “Blue Hawaii,” and this haunting interpretation of the classic ballad.
PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA feat. GEORGE GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue
Now how cool is this? That’s Gershwin himself playing the piano on this recording.
NEW ORDER
Blue Monday
Yes, the picture sleeve was shaped like a floppy disc. I still have my copy of it, after 30 years. Awesome song.
LeANN RIMES
Blue
Just think. All this wonderful talent at such a young age. Whatever happened to LeAnn Rimes, anyway?
Listen, I could have put together a K-Chuck Radio with 40 different “blue” songs in it. This is just a smattering. That’s why I have a comment section, where you can tell me the “blue” songs that I’ve missed, or the ones that were your personal favorites.
Stay warm on a chilly Saturday morning, when the weather can turn your fingertips icy blue.
On K-Chuck Radio.
Chuck The Writer 
I would have picked the Marcels’ Blue Moon, and give Elvis a different Blue . I LOVE that song.
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We need a little Blue Velvet from Mr. Bobby Vinton! 🙂
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Ahh Yes..Blue Moon by the Marcels! That song was captivating to me me as a kid. chuck, this was very enjoyable and unexpected.
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I’m feeling blue knowing Phil Everly has died.
Anyway, “Blue Bayou” Linda Ronstadt.
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Chuck-I’m surprised you didn’t mention Bobby Vinton’s Blue on Blue & Blue Velvet. I don’t know who first recorded Mr. Blue–it’s been covered by everybody but Johnny Rotten & the Sex Pistols. Magic 590 AM often plays a solo version of that but I never catch the artist because they don’t announce after each song. Blue Moon is another like that. It’s where I prefer Elvis’ idiosyncratic version.* I rather like the arrangement that “Bowser” often performed at the NY State Fair when he did his “Rock & Roll Party.” I’ve heard the version many times but I don’t know if it’s Jon or someone else.
PS Nice to see an old 78 RPM record! I grew up with those! When I was maybe 7, I played a scratchy 78 of Lauritz Melchior, THE Heldentenor of Heldentenors, singing Rienzi’s Prayer (from Wagner’s eponymous Opera– a 5 1/2 hr crashing bore–deserves its obscurity!) & Vesti La Giubba from Pagliacci. I declared, “Someday I’M gonna sing like that!!!” And the rest is history!)
*Elvis was an incredible artist. He transcended so many musical genres. Long before Donny & Marie (or as Mad so aptly put it during the days of their TV show, “Dummy and MarEEK”!) Elvis was a little bit country and a little bit rock n roll–as well as a little bit pop, a little bit gospel, a little bit blues… I wonder, though, if Elvis were still alive, would he be as wildly popular as he is today or would he be “Elvis WHO?” 1973, I worked part time in the music department of the old Montgomery Ward. I was a long term substitute at what is now Bishop Maginn, then Cardinal McCloskey, the pay stunk & I had “luxuries” like car payment & rent to pay. When the album for Elvis Aloha from Hawaii TV special was released, it sold like hotcakes. A month later I don’t know how many dozens we boxed up to shipped back to the warehouse. We couldn’t even sell them in the “cut out bin” for 75 cts!
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