| "Blue Money" | ||||
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| Single by Van Morrison | ||||
| from the album His Band and the Street Choir | ||||
| A-side | "Blue Money" | |||
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| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | R&B[1] | |||
| Length | 3:40 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Van Morrison | |||
| Producer(s) | Van Morrison | |||
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"Blue Money" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was the second of two Top Forty hits from his 1970 album, His Band and the Street Choir (the other being "Domino"), reaching No. 23 on the US chart. The US single featured "Sweet Thing", from the album Astral Weeks, as the B-side. It was released as a single in the UK in June 1971 with a different B-side, "Call Me Up in Dreamland". The song became Morrison's third best selling single of the 1970s, remaining on the charts for three months.[2]
The lyrics have the singer promising his girl that they will paint the town together with her "blue money".[3] Critic Maury Dean states that the theme picks up from Lefty Frizzell's 1950 No. 1 song "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time".[3] In a 1972 Rolling Stone interview with John Grissim Jr., Morrison commented about the popularity of "Blue Money" in cities like Boston and New York City: "Out here I get asked to play 'Blue Money' all the time. All the kids love it, the kids in the street. It's their favorite number."[4]
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- ^ a b Dean, M. (2003). Rock 'n' Roll Gold Rush. Algora. p. 329. ISBN 0875862071.
- ^ Grissim Jr., John (2 June 1972). "Van Morrison: The Rolling Stone Interview". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2009.