Blue Guitar
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| "Blue Guitar" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Richard Chamberlain | ||||
| from the album Twilight of Honor | ||||
| B-side | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" | |||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Length | 2:51 | |||
| Label | MGM | |||
| Songwriters | Burt Bacharach, Hal David | |||
| Richard Chamberlain singles chronology | ||||
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"Blue Guitar" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. In 1963, Richard Chamberlain released it as the lead single from his album Twilight of Honor. It was a No. 12 hit on the Easy Listening chart, No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] and No. 30 in Canada.[2][3]
Background
[edit | edit source]The B-side of Chamberlain's single is the first recording of the Bacharach-David composition "(They Long to Be) Close to You." The song later became a number-one hit for the Carpenters in 1970.
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