Stormy Monday Blues
{{Short description|Jazz song first recorded by Earl Hines with Billy Ekstine in 1942}}
{{About|jazz song recorded by Earl Hines with Billy Ekstine||Stormy Monday (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Stormy Monday Blues
| cover = Stormy Monday Blues single cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Earl Hines
| B-side = Second Balcony Jump
| released = {{Start date|1942}}
| recorded = March 19, 1942
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = {{Duration|m=3|s=11}}
| label = Bluebird
| writer = Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Bob Crowder
| producer =
}}
"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",
{{cite book
| last = Whitburn
| first = Joel
| authorlink = Joel Whitburn
| title = Top R&B Singles 1942–1988
| year = 1988
| location = Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
| publisher = Record Research
| isbn = 978-0-89820-068-3
| page = [https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whit/page/191 191]
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstop00whit/page/191
}} and was Hines' only appearance in the charts.
Background
"Stormy Monday Blues" is performed in the style of a slow blues that "starts with Hines' piano and a walking bass for the introduction".
{{cite magazine
| author = Billboard
| date = August 8, 1942
| title = Earl Hines{{snd}}record review
| magazine = Billboard
| volume = 24
| issue = 32
| issn = 0006-2510
| page = 68
}} Billy Eckstine then enters with the vocal:
{{poemquote|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}}
The lyrics "stormy" or "Monday" do not appear in the song. A trumpet solo by Maurice "Shorty" McConnell
{{cite book
| last = Yanow
| first = Scott
| title = Trumpet Kings: The Players Who Shaped the Sound of Jazz Trumpet
| year = 2001
| publisher = Backbeat Books
| isbn = 978-0-87930-640-3
| page = 250
}} with big band backing is featured in the second half of the song. Eckstine later recorded "Stormy Monday Blues" in 1959 with Count Basie for their Basie/Eckstine Incorporated album.
{{cite web
| url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r160996/review|pure_url=yes}}
| title = Basie and Eckstine, Inc.{{snd}}album review
| last = Nastos
| first = Michael G.
| website = AllMusic
| access-date = September 14, 2010
}}
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".
{{cite encyclopedia
| last = Herzhaft
| first = Gerard
| encyclopedia = Encyclopedia of the Blues
| section = Stormy Monday Blues
| year = 1992
| location = Fayetteville, Arkansas
| publisher = University of Arkansas Press
| isbn = 978-1-55728-252-1
| page = [https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbl00herzh/page/472 472]
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbl00herzh/page/472
}}
See also
References
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