Bye Bye Blues (song)

"Bye Bye Blues"
Single by Les Paul and Mary Ford
B-side "Mammy's Boogie"
Released January 1953
Genre Vocal
Length 2:05
Label Capitol Records 2316
Writer(s) Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, Chauncey Gray
Les Paul and Mary Ford singles chronology
"My Baby's Coming Home"
(1952)
"Bye Bye Blues"
(1953)
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
(1953)

"Bye Bye Blues" is a popular and jazz standard written by Fred Hamm, Dave Bennett, Bert Lown, and Chauncey Gray and published in 1930.[1]

The year it was introduced it was sung by The Vikings on the NBC radio series, The Vikings. It has been recorded by many artists, but the best-known recording is one made in 1952 by Les Paul and Mary Ford. This recording was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2316 backed with the Les Paul instrumental composition "Mammy's Boogie". It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on December 27, 1952 and lasted 5 weeks on the chart, peaking at #5.[2]

Recorded versions

References

  1. Bert Lown biography on MSN site
  2. Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records 1940-1955. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research.