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Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies” – Song of the month
March04
Universal catalogue offers one of it’s jewels for song of the month. It is 90 years old “Blue Skies”, song made for “Betsy” musical. Audiences on opening night demanded 24 encores of the piece from star Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat. Ben Selvin’s recording was a #1 hit in 1927, and of the myriad of subsequent versions, Willie Nelson’s was one of the most popular, charting at #1 in the country music charts in 1978. Many stars did cover of the song: Josephine Baker, Nina Simone, Diana Washington, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart and many more. In this millennium song was used by Groove Armada as “Inside My Mind”.
