Blue on Blue (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Blue on Blue
Type = Album
Artist = Bobby Vinton |
Released = August 1963
Genre = Pop
Length = 28:46
Label = Epic
Producer = Bob Morgan
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5
Last album = "The Greatest Hits of the Golden Groups"
(1963)
This album = "Blue on Blue"
(1963)
Next album = "There! I've Said It Again"
(1964)

"Blue on Blue" was Bobby Vinton's sixth studio album, released in 1963.

Completely devoted to songs that refer to the color blue, this album contained two singles: "Blue on Blue", which reached #3 on the U.S. Pop charts and "Blue Velvet", which went on to hit #1 for three weeks on the same chart. Interestingly, both songs served as title tracks during their popularities. The album was released after the success of the song "Blue on Blue," but when "Blue Velvet" became a hit, the album's title was changed with it being the title track. It was not until after the album's title was changed, that it managed to make its way to the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums; it reached #10.

Cover versions include the jazz songs "St. Louis Blues" and "Blueberry Hill," "Am I Blue," "Blue, Blue Day," the Fleetwoods' hit "Mr. Blue," "My Blue Heaven," and three showtunes ("Blue Skies," "Blue Hawaii," and "Blue Moon").

Track listing

ide 1

# Blue on Blue - (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) - 2:26
# Am I Blue - (Harry Akst, Grant Clark) - 2:19
# Blue, Blue Day - (Don Gibson) - 1:53
# Mr. Blue - (DeWayne Blackwell) - 2:30
# Blue Velvet - (Bernie Wayne, Lee Morris) - 2:47
# St. Louis Blues - (W.C. Handy) - 2:27

ide 2

# Blue Skies - (Irving Berlin) - 2:17
# Blue Hawaii - (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) - 2:08
# Blue Moon - (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:40
# Little Miss Blue - (Bobby Vinton, Formosa) - 2:08
# Blueberry Hill - (Al Lewis, Larry Stock, Vincent Rose) - 2:31
# My Blue Heaven - (Walter Donaldson, George Whiting) - 1:50

Album credits

*Produced by: Bob Morgan
*Arranged and conducted by: Burt Bacharach
*Cover photo: Hank Parker

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)