Blue Velvet (song)

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“Blue Velvet”

Single by Tony Bennett
Genre	Pop
Writer(s)	Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris

“Blue Velvet”

Single by Bobby Vinton
from the album Blue on Blue

Released

1963

Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris

Bobby Vinton singles chronology

Blue on Blue
(1963)

Blue Velvet
(1963)

There! I've Said It Again
(1964)

"Blue Velvet" is a popular song, written by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris, that has been recorded by several artists. It was first a hit for Tony Bennett in 1951, when it peaked at #16 on the Billboard Best Selling Pop Singles Chart (the predecessor of the Billboard Hot 100). A 1955 version of the song by The Clovers reached #14 on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues chart. Bobby Vinton's version of the song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 21, 1963, and held the top spot for three weeks. Vinton's version of "Blue Velvet" failed to make the British charts when it was first released, but a re-released version in 1990 went to #2 in the United Kingdom.

The first public performance of the song was by singer Ray Mason in 1950 at a fashion show in Boston^{[citation needed]}.

The song is featured several times in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986).

Barry Manilow covered "Blue Velvet" on his 2006 album, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties.

Preceded by "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels	Billboard Hot 100 number one single September 21, 1963	Succeeded by "Sugar Shack" by Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs