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"Indescribably Blue"
Single by Elvis Presley
B-side" Fools Fall in Love"
ReleasedJanuary 10, 1967
RecordedJune 10, 1966
Studio RCA Studio B, Nashville
Genre Pop
Label RCA Victor
Songwriter(s) Darrell Glenn
Elvis Presley singles chronology
" If Every Day Was Like Christmas"
(1966)
"Indescribably Blue" / " Fools Fall in Love"
(1967)
" You Gotta Stop" / " The Love Machine"
(1967)

"Indescribably Blue" is a song written by Darrell Glenn and recorded by Elvis Presley on June 10, 1966. [1] It was released by RCA Records as a single on January 10, 1967, backed with " Fools Fall in Love". [1] The song peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on February 24, 1967. [2]

Jerry Schilling, a member of Presley's entourage, described "Indescribably Blue" as "an intense, emotional, vocally demanding ballad." [3] Biographer Peter Guralnick described the song as "a pretty, somewhat insipid ballad." [4]

Charts

Chart (1967) Peak
position
UK Singles ( OCC) [5] 21
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 33

References

  1. ^ a b "Indescribably Blue". Elvis The Music.
  2. ^ "Elvis Presley Chart History". Billboard.
  3. ^ Schilling, Jerry; Crisafulli, Chris (2006). Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley. New York: Gotham Books. p. 146. ISBN  9781592403059.
  4. ^ Guralnick, Peter (2012). Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley. New York: Little, Brown. ISBN  9780316206723.
  5. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2019-01-16.
  6. ^ "Elvis Presley Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-01-16.