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| Single by Elvis Presley from the album G.I. Blues |
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| A-side | "Blue Christmas" (USA 1964) | ||||
| Released | 1960 | ||||
| Format | 7", 45rpm | ||||
| Recorded | April 28, 1960 | ||||
| Genre | Blues | ||||
| Length | 2:03 | ||||
| Label | RCA | ||||
| Writer(s) | Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Bert Kaempfert | ||||
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"Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)" is a song best known for featuring in the 1960 Elvis Presley film G.I. Blues. GI Blues, recorded during April and May 1960 at RCA Studios and Radio Recorders in Hollywood California, the Soundtrack album to the A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of 7 inch Vinyl records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s " Blue Christmas " is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both GI Blues is a 1960 Elvis Presley musical Motion picture played as a romantic comedy The song was a hit for Presley in the United Kingdom, making number one for six weeks, but wasn't released as a single in the USA until November 1964 (as B-side to "Blue Christmas"). " Blue Christmas " is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W Presley was pipped to the post in the U. S. by Joe Dowell's cover version, which made number one at the end of August 1961. Joe Dowell (born January 23 1940 Bloomington Illinois) was an American pop singer In Popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition ( Performance or Recording) of a previously recorded commercially released
"Wooden Heart", created by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey and German bandleader Bert Kaempfert, was based on a German folk song, "Muß i' denn zum Städtele hinaus". Fred Wise was the co-writer of the lyrics to the 1948 song " 'A' — You're Adorable " with Buddy Kaye. Ben Weisman ( November 16[[ 921]]&mdash May 20[[ 007]] was an American composer and pianist best known for having written many of the songs associated with Elvis Bert Kaempfert (born Berthold Kämpfert; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German Orchestra leader and "Wooden Heart" features several lines from the original folk song, written in the German dialect Swabian. Swabian ( Schwäbisch) is one of the Alemannic dialects of High German, spoken in the region of Swabia. Bobby Vinton recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish. Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American Pop music singer
Editions
- (US) "Blue Christmas" b/w "Wooden Heart" Released: November 1964, RCA 447-0720
| Preceded by "Walk Right Back" b/w "Ebony Eyes" by The Everly Brothers |
UK number one single (Elvis Presley version) March 23, 1961 (6 weeks) |
Succeeded by "Blue Moon" by The Marcels |
| Preceded by "Tossin' and Turnin'" by Bobby Lewis |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single (Joe Dowell version) August 28, 1961 (one week) |
Succeeded by "Michael" by The Highwaymen |
External links
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