The Thrill Is Gone

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The Thrill Is Gone (Engl. Approximately for the air is out ) is the title of a slow blues songs , which in 1951 by the West Coast Blues -Musikern Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell was written.

History of origin

The blues song was based on a Broadway - Musical -Stück same title from 1931 from the musical George White's Scandals of Lew Brown and Ray Henderson , the first time in the same year by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees was listed number 10 on the charts reaching and was released on Victor Records . Hawkins' version reached number 6 on the US Rhythm'n'Blues Billboard chart in 1951 .

The model of the song from 1931 was used in jazz from the 1930s a. a. also covered by the Boswell Sisters , Freddie Slack , George Chisholm , Hadda Brooks , Chet Baker , Chris Connor , Patti Page , Dakota Staton , Ann Richards , Carmen McRae , Mary Ann McCall , Stan Getz , Monica Zetterlund , Julie London and Helen Merrill .

Version of BB King

Probably the best known version of the piece comes from BB King on the album Completely Well from 1969. This version was written in the twelve-bar blues scheme (with 4/4 bars ) and used strings in the background. It reached number 3 on the R&B chart and number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart . As a result, BB King received a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1970 and a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998 . His version was ranked 183rd of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine . BB King released other versions of The Thrill Is Gone on the albums Live in Cook County Jail (1971), Bobby Bland and BB King Together Again ... Live (1976) and Live at San Quentin (1991).

Other versions

After BB King popularized the song, some people took it. a. also Sheila Jordan , Ella Fitzgerald , Jimmy Rowles , Karin Krog , Archie Shepp and Martin Speake . The blues version of The Thrill Is Gone was also recorded by other artists, including Aretha Franklin on her album Spirit in the Dark (1970), Little Milton on Waiting for Little Milton (1973), Chicken Shack / Stan Webb on Poor Boy ( The Deram Years 1972–1974) (1973), Luther Allison on Live in Paris (1979), The Crusaders on Royal Jam (1981), Barbara Mandrell on ... In Black and White (1982), Jerry García and David Grisman on her album of the same name (1991), The Manhattan Transfer on Tonin ' (1995), Dishwalla on the soundtrack of Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), Diamanda Galás on Malediction & Prayer (1998), Willie Nelson on Milk Cow Blues (2000), The Marshall Tucker Band on Stompin 'Room Only (2003), Pappo on Buscando un amor (2003), Leslie West on Got Blooze (2005) and The Eric Steckel Band on Havana (2006). The song of the same name by MC Hammer on the album Feel My Power uses BB King's version as a sample . Christina Aguilera sang the piece at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Morath: The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards . The Berkeley Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-1-101-20311-8 .
  2. ↑ Jeremy Wilson: The Thrill Is Gone (1931) . Retrieved June 11, 2013.
  3. ^ A b Joel Whitburn: Top R&B Singles 1942–1988. Record Research, 1988. ISBN 0-89820-068-7 . Pp. 186, 236.
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 17, 2015)
  5. ^ The Blues . Hal Leonard Corporation, 1995, ISBN 0-7935-5259-1 , p. 220.
  6. ^ Matthew Greenwald: The Thrill Is Gone - Song Review . In: Allmusic . Rovi Corp .. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  7. ^ Roy Hawkins - Songs composed by . In: Allmusic . Rovi Corp .. Retrieved March 9, 2012.