Stormy Monday Blues
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| "Stormy Monday Blues" | |
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| File:Stormy Monday Blues single cover.jpg | |
| Single by Earl Hines | |
| B-side | "Second Balcony Jump" |
| Released | 1942 |
| Format | 10" 78 rpm record |
| Recorded | March 19, 1942 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Length | 3:11 |
| Label | Bluebird (Cat. no. 11567) |
| Writer(s) | Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Bob Crowder |
"Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals. The song was a hit, reaching number one in Billboard magazine's "Harlem Hit Parade",[1] making it Hines' only appearance in the charts.
"Stormy Monday Blues" is performed in the style of a slow blues that "starts with Hines' piano and a walking bass for the introduction".[2] Billy Eckstine then enters with the vocal:
- It's gone and started rainin', I'm as lonesome as a man can be
- It's gone and started rainin', I'm as lonesome as a man can be
- 'Cause every time it rains, I realize what you mean to me
Of note, the lyrics "stormy" or "Monday" do not appear in the song. A trumpet solo by Maurice "Shorty" McConnell[3] with big band backing is featured in the second half of the song.[2]
The song has sometimes been confused with T-Bone Walker's 1947 song "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", which is frequently shortened to "Stormy Monday" or "Stormy Monday Blues".[4] When Eckstine later recorded "Stormy Monday Blues" in 1959 with Count Basie for their Basie/Eckstine Incorporated album, the song was credited to T-Bone Walker, even though Eckstine is a cowriter of the original.[5]
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