Blueberry Hill

“Blueberry Hill” is a popular song published in 1940, best remembered for its 1950s rock and roll version by Fats Domino. The music was written by Vincent Rose, the lyrics by Larry Stock and Al Lewis.  It was recorded six times in 1940. Victor Records released the recording by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra with vocals by Tommy Ryan on May 31, 1940] Gene Krupa’s version was issued on OKeh Records on June 3 and singer Mary Small recorded a vocal version on the same label with Nat Brandwynne’s orchestra, released June 20, 1940. Other 1940 recordings were by: the Glenn Miller Orchestra on Bluebird Records , Kay Kyser, Russ Morgan, Gene Autry (also in the 1941 film The Singing Hill), Connee Boswell, and Jimmy Dorsey. The largest 1940 hit was by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.  Louis Armstrong’s recorded in  1949 It was an international hit in 1956 for Fats Domino and has become a rock and roll standard, becoming his biggest pop hit.  Larry Stock, who wrote the lyrics, recalled that “one important publisher turned down ‘Blueberry Hill,’ because, he claimed, blueberries don’t grow on hills. I assured him I had picked them on hills as a boy, but nothing doing. So Chappell And Company bought the song and another hit was born.