| "Blue Money" | ||||||||||
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| Single by Van Morrison | ||||||||||
| from the album His Band and the Street Choir | ||||||||||
| A-side | "Blue Money" | |||||||||
| B-side | "Sweet Thing" (U.S.) "Call Me Up in Dreamland" (Europe) |
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| Released | 1971 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||||||||
| Genre | R&B, folk rock | |||||||||
| Length | 3:40 | |||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Van Morrison | |||||||||
| Producer | Van Morrison | |||||||||
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"Blue Money" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was the second of two Top Forty hits from his 1970 album, His Band and the Street Choir (the other being "Domino"), reaching #23 on the U.S. charts. The U.S. single featured "Sweet Thing", from the album Astral Weeks, as the B-side. It was released as a single in the U.K. in June 1971 with a different B-side, "Call Me Up in Dreamland". The song became Morrison's third best selling single of the 1970s, remaining on the charts for three months.[1]
In a 1972 Rolling Stone interview with John Grissim Jr., Morrison commented about the popularity of "Blue Money" in cities like Boston and New York: "Out here I get asked to play 'Blue Money' all the time. All the kids love it, the kids in the street. It's their favorite number."[2]
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Robert Christgau, writing in the Village Voice in 1971, described "Blue Money" and "Domino" as "superb examples of Morrison's loose, allusive white r&b."[3] Writer M. Mark described it as "a pun-filled song about time and cash."[4] Biographer Brian Hinton compared the song's sound to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames—"boozy horns and a nonsensical chorus."[5]
Cristina covered "Blue Money" on her 1984 album, Sleep It Off and The Flying Pickets included an a cappella version as the title track on their 1991 album, Blue Money.
The Street Choir:
| Chart (1971)[6] | Peak Position |
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| U.S. Pop Singles | 23 |
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