| "The Thrill Is Gone" | ||||
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| Single by B.B. King | ||||
| from the album Completely Well | ||||
| B-side | "You're Mean" | |||
| Released | December 1969 | |||
| Recorded | June 1969 | |||
| Genre | R&B, soul blues | |||
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| Label | Bluesway/ABC | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkins[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Bill Szymczyk | |||
| B.B. King singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| "The Thrill Is Gone" (album version) on YouTube | ||||
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951.[1] Hawkins's recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951.[2] In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard.[3]
- ^ a b "The Thrill Is Gone — B.B. King (ABC Bluesway, 1969)". The Blues Foundation. November 10, 2016. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
Writers' credits on the first B.B. releases went to Arthur H. Benson and Dale Pettite, but are now filed under Hawkins and Rick Darnell.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (1988). Top R&B Singles 1942–1988. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. p. 184. ISBN 0-89820-068-7.
- ^ Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Thrill Is Gone (The)". Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. p. 454. ISBN 1-55728-252-8.