Blue Morning, Blue Day

"Blue Morning, Blue Day"
Single by Foreigner
from the album Double Vision
B-side "I Have Waited So Long"
Released December 1978 (1978-12)
Format 7-inch single
Recorded 1978
Genre Hard rock
Length 3:08
Label Atlantic
Writer(s) Lou Gramm, Mick Jones
Producer(s) Keith Olsen, Mick Jones, Ian McDonald
Foreigner singles chronology
"Double Vision"
(1978)		 "Blue Morning, Blue Day"
(1978)		 "Love Has Taken Its Toll"
(1979)

"Blue Morning, Blue Day" is the third single from Foreigner's second album, Double Vision.

The song was backed with the Mick Jones song "I Have Waited So Long". It proved to be their sixth Top 40 single in two years. The song was written by the songwriting team of Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, and reached number 15 in the charts in the U.S. and 45 in the U.K. "Blue Morning, Blue Day" is also available as downloadable content for the Rock Band series and was released on clear blue vinyl.

Gramm said about the song, "It talks about a young musician that's burning the candle at both ends. He has a lot on his mind, and walks the street at night."[1] Blue is used as a metaphor for misery. The color was later in a different context on Gramm's 1987 solo hit "Midnight Blue".

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1978–79) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles 21
UK 45
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 15
U.S. Cashbox Top 100 19

Year-end charts

Chart (1979) Rank
Canada[2] 138
U.S. (Joel Whitburn's Pop Annual)[3] 113

References

  1. ↑ "Lou Gramm : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts.com. 2015-08-18. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  2. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
  3. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.

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