Blue Guitar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| “Blue Guitar” | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Richard Chamberlain from the album Twilight of Honor |
|||||
| B-side | "They Long to Be Close to You" | ||||
| Released | 1963 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Length | 2:51 | ||||
| Label | MGM | ||||
| Writer(s) | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | ||||
| Richard Chamberlain singles chronology | |||||
|
|||||
This should not be confused with the Justin Hayward and John Lodge song of the same name.
"Blue Guitar" is the name of a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In 1963, Richard Chamberlain released it as the lead single from his album Twilight of Honor. It was fairly successful upon release, just missing the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100.
This song is unusual in the Bacharach-David catalogue in that other performers who usually recorded versions of their material, e.g. Dionne Warwick and Cilla Black, did not perform it.
Chamberlain's single is also notable for its B-side, another Bacharach-David composition entitled "They Long to Be Close to You." This is the original version of the song that would become a number one hit when released by The Carpenters in 1970.
 |
This 1960s single-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
