Blue Velvet (Tony Bennett song)
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| from the album Blue Velvet | |
| Released | 1955 |
| Format | 12" vinyl record |
| Genre | Rhythm and blues |
| Length | 2:33 |
| Label | Atlantic |
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| Single by Bobby Vinton | ||||
| from the album Blue on Blue | ||||
| B-side | "Is There a Place (Where I Can Go)" | |||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Format | Vinyl, 7 in, 45 RPM | |||
| Recorded | 1963 | |||
| Genre | Traditional pop | |||
| Length | 2:47 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
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| Producer(s) | Bob Morgan | |||
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| from the album Paradise | |||||||||||
| Released | September 20, 2012 | ||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||
| Length | 2:36 | ||||||||||
| Label | Interscope | ||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Emile Haynie | ||||||||||
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"Blue Velvet" is a popular song written in 1950 by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris. A top 20 hit for Tony Bennett in its original 1951 version, the song has since been recorded many times, with a 1963 version by Bobby Vinton reaching #1.
While visiting friends in Richmond, Virginia, songwriter Bernie Wayne stayed at the Jefferson Hotel, and it was the sight of a woman at a party held at the Jefferson which inspired Wayne to write the lyric for "Blue Velvet". When Wayne pitched "Blue Velvet" to Columbia Records head A&R man Mitch Miller he'd only played the opening line: "She wore blue velvet ...", when Miller interrupted saying: "How about [my giving the song to] Tony Bennett?" Wayne's response: "Don't you want to hear the rest of the song", drew this advice from Miller: "Quit while you're ahead!"
The first artist for whom "Blue Velvet" was a hit was Tony Bennett who recorded the song in a 17 July 1951 session with the Percy Faith orchestra: released 21 September 1951, Bennett's "Blue Velvet" peaked at #16 on the Billboard chart of "Records Most Played by Disc Jockeys", while reaching #18 on Billboard's chart of "Best Selling Pop Singles", and #18 on Billboard's chart of "Most Played Juke Box Records". Bennett's version made its album debut on a 1958 compilation disc entitled Blue Velvet. A live version of "Blue Velvet" was featured on the 1962 concert album Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall with the track being included on The Good Life a 1963 EP release in the UK. Bennett dueted with k.d. lang on a remake of "Blue Velvet" for his 2011 album Duets II while Bennett's 2012 album Viva Duets featured Bennett duetting on "Blue Velvet" with Maria Gadú who sang her part in Portuguese ("Blue Velvet" was a bonus cut on an edition of Viva Duets sold exclusively through Target).
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