Blue Guitar

Infobox Single
Name = Blue Guitar


Artist = Richard Chamberlain
from Album = Twilight of Honor
B-side = "They Long to Be Close to You"
Released = 1963
Format = 7" single
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 2:51
Label = MGM
Writer = Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Producer = ???
Last single = I Will Love You / True Love
(1963)
This single = Blue Guitar
(1963)
Next single = Rome Will Never Leave You
(1964)

"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 a #12 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts and #42 on 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.