THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

794-Guy Mitchell-Singing the Blues.

1956-Number 1 single.

Best Bit-At 0.41.Not to be confused with the kind of Blues that Lead Belly, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bessie Smith, or B.B.King were known for singing.

‘Singing the Blues’ is by far the best known song, of over 400 written by Melvin Endsley (1934-2004.) Endsley was born in Drasco, Arkansas, United States, at the age of three he contracted polio,requiring him to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

The first recording of the song was by Country singer Marty Robbins (1925-1982,) who took the song to Number 17 on Billboard in 1956, but it was the recording by Guy Mitchell which was the most successful.Guy Mitchell was born Albert Cernik on February 22nd, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, he died on July 1st, 1999, as well as having a singing career he was also an actor, and had his own television show,’The Guy Mitchell Show,’which ran between 1957-1958 on the ‘ABC,’ network. It was Mitch Miller (1911-2010) who was in charge of talent at Columbia Records who gave him his stage name,’My name is Mitchell, and you seem like a nice guy.’In total, including this song, Mitchell recorded six, one million selling singles.

In the 1950’s it was not unusual for more than one version of a song to be in the chart at the same time.In 1956 Guy Mitchell spent 10 non-consecutive weeks at Number 1, the sequence was broken by Tommy Steele’s version, which spent a week at the top.The song has also charted on three more occasions in the UK, in 1980 for Dave Edmunds (Number 28,) in 1994 for Daniel O’Donnell (number 23,) and in 2009 for Cliff Richard & the Shadows (Number 40.)

‘Oh the moon and stars no longer shine, the dream is gone I thought was mine.’