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"Blue Monday" | ||||
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Single by Fats Domino | ||||
B-side | "What's the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You" | |||
Released | 1956 | |||
Recorded | 1956 | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Label | Imperial 5417 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Dave Bartholomew | |||
Fats Domino singles chronology | ||||
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Official Audio | ||||
"Blue Monday" on YouTube |
"Blue Monday" is a song written by Dave Bartholomew, [1] first recorded in 1953 by Smiley Lewis and issued as a single, in January 1954, on Imperial Records (catalog # 5268). [2] [3] The single, with a slow-rocking beat, features an instrumental electric guitar solo by Lewis.
It was later popularized in a recording by Fats Domino in 1956, also on Imperial (catalog # 5417), on which the songwriting credit was shared between him and Bartholomew.[ citation needed ] Most later versions have credited Bartholomew and Domino as co-writers. The baritone saxophone solo is by Herbert Hardesty. [4] [5]
Domino's version was featured in the 1956 film The Girl Can't Help It . It became one of the earliest rhythm and blues songs to make the Billboard charts, peaking at number five and reaching the number one spot on the R&B Best Sellers chart. [6] The single reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart [7] It was included on the 1957 Liberty album This Is Fats and the 1959 Liberty album Fats Domino Sings 12,000,000 Records.
The song title was used for a 2006 biography of Domino by Rick Coleman. [8]
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