9 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart. 21 in the United States, and spent two weeks at No. So what do you think Van Morrison is referring to, this “blue money”?īlue Collar Man by Styx – “Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)” is the first single that Styx released from the 1978 album Pieces of Eight. Slang money that a person or business spends with poor management or accountability. ![]() Here’s another definition of blue money:īlue Money. Though I always assumed it meant rich-kid/trust-fund kid money, like that from a blue blood. I never thought it was that! Although I can see the tie-in with the lyrics referencing the photographer. So, in the Van Morrison song, when he sings “The photographer smiles, take a break for a while, do your very best… when this is all over, we’ll be in clover, and we’ll go out and spend all of your Blue Money,” he’s watching his woman have naked or nearly naked pictures taken of her and is looking forward to spending what she makes- the aforementioned Blue Money!” What Blue Money refers to in the song, and in most uses of the term, is money earned from salacious or racy photographs and images. What is “blue money”? According to one source I found online: “Blue Money” is a song written and recorded by Van Morrison in 1970. All the kids love it, the kids in the street. The lyrics have the singer promising his girl that they will paint the town together with her “blue money.” Critic Maury Dean states that the theme picks up from Lefty Frizzell’s 1950 #1 song “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time.” 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: “Out here I get asked to play ‘Blue Money’ all the time. Mark described it as “a pun-filled song about time and cash.” Biographer Brian Hinton compared the song’s sound to Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames-”boozy horns and a nonsensical chorus.” Maury Dean (musician, professor and author of “The Rock Revolution” which is in the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian) also praises the song’s “snarly, snappity sounds” and Morrison’s “jazzy baritone.” The song became Morrison’s third best-selling single of the 1970s, remaining on the charts for three months.Ĭritical response to the song: Robert Christgau, writing in the Village Voice in 1971, described “Blue Money” and “Domino” as “superb examples of Morrison’s loose, allusive white R&B.” Writer M. It was released as a single in the UK in June 1971 with a different B-side, “Call Me Up in Dreamland”. The US single featured “Sweet Thing”, from the album Astral Weeks, as the B-side. It was the second of two Top Forty hits from his 1970 album, His Band and the Street Choir (the other being “Domino”), reaching #23 on the US charts. ENJOY!īlue Money by Van Morrison – “Blue Money” is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Here is my playlist, followed by some interesting info on each of the blue songs featured. ![]() Today’s BLUE PART 2 has a number of fabulous blue songs too. (If you missed Part 1, you can check it out here…and I highly encourage you to as there are some kickass blue songs in that group!). If you missed any and would like to check them out, I have a page of links to the various editions.īecause there were so many songs that I like with the color Blue in the title, I broke this edition into two parts. ![]() This series has focused on songs with colors in the title and every color has been highlighted. ![]() It’s a Freebie for today’s Monday’s Music Moves Me and believe it or not, we are coming to the end (well, almost) of my Kaleidoscope of Color Songs Series with the final color being BLUE.
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