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Blue Velvet (song) - Wikipedia"Blue Velvet" is a popular song written and composed in 1. Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris. A top 2. 0 hit for Tony Bennett in its original 1. Bobby Vinton reaching No. Background[edit]While visiting friends in Richmond, Virginia, songwriter Bernie Wayne stayed at the Jefferson Hotel, and it was the sight of a woman at a party held at the Jefferson which inspired Wayne to write the lyric for "Blue Velvet."[2] When Wayne pitched "Blue Velvet" to Columbia Records head A& R man Mitch Miller, he had only played the opening line: "She wore blue velvet ..", when Miller interrupted him, saying: "How about [my giving the song to] Tony Bennett?" Wayne's response, "Don't you want to hear the rest of the song?", drew this advice from Miller: "Quit while you're ahead!" [3]Tony Bennett version[edit]The first artist for whom "Blue Velvet" was a hit was Tony Bennett who recorded the song in a 1. July 1. 95. 1 session with the Percy Faith orchestra: released 2. September 1. 95. 1, Bennett's "Blue Velvet" peaked at No.

Billboard chart of "Records Most Played by Disc Jockeys,"[4] while reaching No. Billboard's chart of "Best Selling Pop Singles,"[5] and No.

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Billboard's chart of "Most Played Juke Box Records."[6] Bennett's version made its album debut on a 1. Blue Velvet. A live version of "Blue Velvet" was featured on the 1. Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall, with the selection being included on The Good Life, a 1. EP release in the UK. Bennett dueted with k. Blue Velvet" for his 2.

Duets II, while Bennett's 2. Viva Duets featured Bennett duetting on "Blue Velvet" with Maria Gadú, who sang her part in Portuguese. Blue Velvet" was a bonus cut on an edition of Viva Duets sold exclusively through Target.)The Clovers version[edit]"Blue Velvet" was recorded by the Clovers for their album of the same name.[1][7] Released in 1. Atlantic Records, the song was released as a single on 1. The song was initially recorded, produced, and released when the R& B group was still consisted of John "Buddy" Bailey (lead singer), Billy Mitchell, Matthew Mc. Quater, Harold Lucas, Harold Winley, Bill Harris.[7] Various members of the group left, died, or were replaced, although the group as a whole still performed the song regardless of whom its members were.

The track reached No. Billboard's. Rhythm & Blues Records chart of "Best Sellers in Stores."[8]The Statues version[edit]The first version of "Blue Velvet" to appear on the Billboard Hot 1. Statues, a Nashville- based doo- wop trio consisting of Buzz Cason, Hugh Jarrett, and Richard Williams. In 1. 95. 9 Cason and Williams, members of local rockabilly band the Casuals, had been invited by Jarrett, a former member of the Jordanaires and currently a disc jockey at WLAC, to join him - along with veteran background songstress and composer Marijohn Wilkin - to form a vocal chorale who would back artists recording in Nashville; the three male members of the chorale were signed to Liberty Records by label founder Al Bennett, who had Snuff Garrett - in his apparent debut as a producer - record the trio in three sessions at the Owen Bradley Studio at the end of November or the beginning of December 1. Two sides from the Garrett sessions had a May 1. Statues (the group name was a reference to the Statue of Liberty, as the group was signed to Liberty Records): the intended A- side was the Marijohn Wilkin original co- write (with Polly Harrison) "Keep the Hall Light Burning" but it was the flip: a remake of "Blue Velvet," which would not only become a Top Ten hit in Nashville but also rank on regional hit parades across the US rising as high as No.

September 1. 96. 0 Top 5. Los Angeles Top 4. KRLA.[1. 0] However,the Statues's version of "Blue Velvet" would only accrue enough focused national interest to rank on the Hot 1. Watch Camera Buff Online Idigitaltimes. August of 1. 96. 0, with a peak of No. Snuff Garrett had also recorded Buzz Cason solo on a cover version of the UK hit "Look For a Star" and Cason's version - released under the name Garry Miles (evidently to promote confusion with the original version by Garry Mills - had become a Top 2. Garry Miles, Cason had also remained a member of the Casuals; these were long established as the road band for Brenda Lee, and they also provided backing for gigs by other acts. Although the follow- up to both the Statues' "Blue Velvet" and Garry Miles' "Look for a Star" was a one- off release from "Garry Miles and the Statues" titled "Dream Girl," Cason was unable and/or uninterested in prioritizing his involvement with the Statues, which group would be identified in the obituary for Richard Williams as a "studio- only vocal trio."[1.

The Statues's second single release after "Dream Girl," the Moonglows's remake of "[Ten] Commandments of Love" in August of 1. Bobby Vinton version[edit]The most successful recording of "Blue Velvet" was released by Bobby Vinton in 1.

Vinton's version reached No. Billboard Hot 1. 00 on 2. September 1. 96. 3 and remained at No. Blue Velvet" also afforded Vinton a No. U. S. Middle- Road Singles chart, where its No. Vinton's No. 3 hit in the summer of 1. Blue on Blue," prompted the recording of the Blue on Blue album comprising songs featuring the word "blue" in the title.

Vinton's friend, music publisher Al Gallico, suggested "Blue Velvet" as a Blue on Blue album track and sent his secretary with a dollar to a music store to purchase the song's sheet music; an hour later, Vinton had recorded "Blue Velvet" in two takes. Vinton did not expect the song to be a hit, and believed that his remake of "Am I Blue?" had more sales potential.[1. Vinton's version was ranked No.

Cash Box's "Top 1. Chart Hits of 1. 96. No. 8 on Cash Box's "Top 1. Chart Hits of 1. 96. Vinton's recording failed to make the British charts when originally released, but a re- release in 1. No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, with "Blue on Blue" as the B- side.[2.

Chart performance[edit]Lana Del Rey version[edit]American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey released a cover of the song "Blue Velvet" in 2. It was taken from reissue of her second studio album Born to Die – The Paradise Edition and her third EP, Paradise. It was released as a single on September 2. Interscope Records, and used in an advertising campaign for the clothing retailer H& M. Background[edit]Del Rey had recorded a cover of "Blue Velvet" for her 2.

H& M Autumn campaign.[3. On September 2. 0, the song was released as a single.[3. Del Rey was selected for the H& M ad campaign after an impressionable performance at a Mulberry dinner party.

Industry moguls Michelle Williams, Alexa Chung, Elizabeth Olsen, and Anna Wintour attended the party and were impressed by the performance. A public relations manager for H& M said Del Rey was chosen because they "were looking for a style icon and singer to model our fall collection and so Lana Del Rey was the perfect choice."[3. Music video[edit]On September 1. H& M 2. 01. 2 Autumn Collection as well, for "Blue Velvet" was released through H& M.[3.

In the video, Del Rey is singing the song in a low- lit room before an audience of pallid people, playing an Americanalounge singer dressed in a pink mohair sweater,[3. She is then hypnotized.[3.

Three women dressed identically to Del Rey sit on a couch and watch her coldly.[3. At the end, a little man walks into the room, pulls out the plug for Del Rey's microphone, silencing her.[3. Compared to the David Lynch film of the same name,[4. Johan Renck.[4. 0] and composed in post- World War II Americana fashion and the notion of external beauty cloaking inner vulnerability.[4. A behind the scenes video was filmed and posted to H& M's official You.

Tube channel.[4. 2]Critical reception[edit]Rolling Stone called Del Rey's cover "doleful."[3. Carl Williot, of Idolator, dubbed Del Rey's cover "beautifully languorous and dreary (though [it] is replete with her go- to swell of strings and grainy programmed beats)."[4.