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Written by: Al Lewis, Larry Stock, Vincent Rose
Produced by: Dave Bartholomew
Released: Oct. '56 on Imperial
Charts: 27 weeks
Top spot: No. 2
"Blueberry Hill" was first done by Gene Autry in 1940. But Domino drew on the 1949 Louis Armstrong version when he had run out of material at a session. Producer Bartholomew thought it was a terrible idea but lost the argument. Good thing, too. It ended up being Domino's biggest hit and broadened his audience once and for all. As Carl Perkins later said, "In the white honky-tonks where I was playin', they were punchin' 'Blueberry Hill.' And white cats were dancin' to Fats Domino."
Appears on: The Fats Domino Jukebox (Capitol)