Elvis Presley, Martina McBride – Blue Christmas

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“Blue Christmas”
Elvis Presley Blue Christmas 2.jpg
Single by Elvis Presley
from the album Elvis’ Christmas Album
B-side
Released November 9, 1964 (447-0720)
November 26, 1965 (447-0647)
Format 7-inch
Recorded September 5, 1957, Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California
Genre
Length 2:07
Label RCA Victor 447-0720
RCA Victor 447-0647
Songwriter(s)
  • Billy Hayes
  • Jay W. Johnson
Elvis Presley singles chronology
Ain’t That Loving You Baby” / “Ask Me
(1964)
Blue Christmas
(1964)
Do the Clam” / “You’ll Be Gone
(1965)
 
“Blue Christmas”
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album
A-side The Man with All the Toys
Released November 9, 1964
Format 7-inch
Recorded June 24, 1964 – June 28, 1964
Genre
Length 4:41 (for both songs)
Label Capitol Records
Songwriter(s)
  • Billy Hayes
  • Jay W. Johnson
Producer(s) Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology
Dance, Dance, Dance
(1964)
Blue Christmas
(1964)
Do You Wanna Dance?
(1965)

The rock band The Beach Boys recorded a version featuring Brian Wilson on lead vocals, releasing it in the United States on November 16, 1964, in two separate formats simultaneously:
(a) the B-side of “The Man with All the Toys” single.
(b) a track on The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album.
The Beach Boys’ version reached No. 3 on the US Christmas charts, but did not chart in the UK.

Blue Christmas – The Beach Boys


Blue Christmas” is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a longstanding staple of Christmas music, especially in the country genre.

Doye O'Dell – Blue Christmas 1948 – The first artist to record the song

The song was first recorded by Doye O’Dell in 1948, and was popularized the following year in three separate recordings: one by country artist Ernest Tubb, one by musical conductor and arranger Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra and chorus, and one by bandleader Russ Morgan and his orchestra (the latter featuring lead vocals by Morgan and backing vocals by singers credited as the Morganaires). Tubb’s version spent the first week of January 1950 at No. 1 on Billboard magazine’s Most-Played Juke Box (Country & Western) Records chart, while Winterhalter’s version peaked at No. 9 on Billboard‘s Records Most Played by Disk Jockeys chart and Morgan’s version reached No. 11 on Billboard‘s Best-Selling Pop Singles chart. Both Morgan’s and Winterhalter’s versions featured a shorter pop edit of the original lyrics. Also in 1950 crooner Billy Eckstine recorded his rendition, backed by the orchestra of Russ Case, with these shortened lyrics in a variation close to what is now the common standard for this song; the orchestral backing of this recording has often been wrongly accredited to Winterhalter.

Elvis Presley cemented the status of “Blue Christmas” as a rock-and-roll holiday classic by recording it for his 1957 LP Elvis’ Christmas Album.

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