| "Lonely Blue Boy" | ||||
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 Italian release picture sleeve | ||||
| Single by Conway Twitty | ||||
| from the album Lonely Blue Boy | ||||
| B-side | "Star Spangled Heaven" | |||
| Released | December 1959 | |||
| Genre | Rockabilly | |||
| Length | 2:12 | |||
| Label | MGM | |||
| Songwriters | Ben Weisman, Fred Wise | |||
| Conway Twitty singles chronology | ||||
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"Lonely Blue Boy" (originally entitled "Danny" and sung by Elvis Presley) is a song written by Ben Weisman and Fred Wise. The song was earmarked originally for the soundtrack to Presley's 1958 film King Creole . It was recorded but ultimately cut from the film and soundtrack before they were released. Elvis Presley’s original recording was ultimately released twenty years later on the compilation album Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 3 (1978) and was featured on the expanded 1997 re-release of the film's soundtrack album.
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Singer Conway Twitty picked up on the song and recorded it, with a slightly revised title and lyrics, as "Lonely Blue Boy". It reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and #27 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1960. [1] It was featured on his 1960 album Lonely Blue Boy . [2]
The song ranked #38 on Billboard magazine's Top 100 singles of 1960. [3]
In the United Kingdom, rock and roll singers Cliff Richard (with his backing band the Shadows under their original name, the Drifters) and Marty Wilde each recorded versions with the original “Danny” title and lyrics in 1959 (see below).
