Chuck Miller - The House of Blue Lights

[Sheindie]

I Have This Record!!!!  --- it was from a great uncle - 78rpm and I think mine is green? anyway, love it ... always have :D

[SFConifer]

This guy's voice is golden

[Grisbi6]

When I was a teenager, this song was one of my favorites. And I was a White boy in Minnesota, and my friends didn't get it. I listened to an R&B station in Little Rock (KTHS, maybe? I can't remember. There was an advertiser from Louisiana, Lou's Records? Shreveport? Wow, what memories....

[mrboppman1]

when I was a kid I went nuts on this record...I danced around like a crazy fool whenever I played it...good old stuff !!!

[anncalli]

I've been looking for this for years and stuck with singing it in the shower. Thank you thank you thank you.

[thrummer1953]

Great Boogie Woogie

[Gerry50ify]

I used to have the 45. Great song!

[JubalCalif]

Holy Underwear, Batman! What a dynamite version of one of the best boogie woogie tunes every! Strictly from wowsville, daddy-o! If Chuck Miller and his band were any cooler, they'd be frozen! THANKS for sharing this musical treasure with us! :)

[mrstrings65]

I used to sing this with the record when I was a kid.I jumped around like a nut !!!

[jacfred]

What great slang back in the fifties!

[GREGORYKROLL]

Great song! Back in 1955 when I was thirteen, remember listening to this song over and over again on WOKY and WRIT in Milwaukee.  Greg

[19Chuck80]

It is a somewhat rare record...I also have a 78rpm copy given to me by my great uncle in 1991. It was one of 3 of my very first 10" 78's! Could you post the flip, Can't Help Wonderin.....its a great song.

Chuck K

[VinylToVideo]

It's a great record. "Can't Help Wonderin" is already posted.

[VinylToVideo]

Hah you already commented on that video 9 months ago.

[torchwood3hub]

@19Chuck80 Thank you so much For making it possible me to listen to my Grand Uncle's music! Chuck Miller is my Grandfather Henry "Hank" Miller's brother with two others, Bob and Bill , sadly my Grandmother is not alive to enjoy these videos So in her behalf I Thank You for posting these and i hope each time i play these she will be able to hear and dance to these with Grandpa!

[RonaldVaughan]

"There's an eight-beat COMBO that just

won't quit"...(according to printed lyrics)

Not, "taco" or "pothole". Amazing use

of then-current hipster language!!

[RonaldVaughan]

Fish markets used to have blue lights to

showcase their wares.

This made the fish look darker;also,prob-

ably was some kind of ultraviolet (sterilizing) lamp to prevent spoilage!

I never cease to marvel at this wild song.

Some of its lyrics rhyme,some don't...and

this has a great boogie-woogie rhythm!

[lordsvarte]

Universal Music, if you dare take this video out of YouTube... ...I'll be helplessly sad :(

Keep up the good work!

[NancieAZ]

I can't believe that I found one of my all-time old favorites from the 50's on YouTube! Thanks for posting and hooray (again!!!!) for YouTube! What a resource!

[VinylToVideo]

Thank my grandpa for leaving it in a cupboard and not throwing it out for over 50 years. It might be quite a rare record actually.

[wackernie2009]

For me, the definitive version of this tune! Freddie Slack just TEARS it up......5 stars!!

[GidgetBaby1]

Wow This This Is On A 78. My Cousin Said It Was Her First Record. What's A Brice? Life? Ty 4 Posting This VinylTo Video!!

[VincentTPackhorse]

You'll want to spend the rest of your "brights" meaning "days" or "daylight hours"

[Jayray200890]

This is my best friend's great uncle. His grandparents have a bunch of gold records up on their wall!!

[renew2day]

Before Jerry Lee Lewis made it big, there was this hit record by Chuck Miller. This was just before rock n' roll dominated the scene.

[RonaldVaughan]

Back in the day,restaurants (especially

seafood places) used to showcase their

food under a blue light,LOL!!

Which made the item stand out...I'll bet

this song was inspired by that practice...

[RonaldVaughan]

Shellac? LOL!!

This song has some serious lyrics that one

has to LISTEN to understand...

"There's fryers,broilers,Detroit barbecued

ribs....but the treat of the trade is when

they serve you all those fine EIGHT BEATS..."

(NOT "baked beans")...This metaphor compares

music with food,LOL!!

An amazing song...

Huh?

[VinylToVideo]

???

[williepitt1]

Ronald, I think the phrase is "treat of the treats". I know it sounds like "trade", but "treats" rhymes with "beats" and that's also in the printed lyrics I've seen.

[ffurgy]

Thanks so much...I remember when this came out...played it on my piano (hacked)...Real Boogie...

[LirrenShentai]

Very, very nice! Fave jazz song....

[vinylsingleman]

Thanks for posting this! Good version of this tune.

[VinylToVideo]

The best.

[rn8393]

Indubitably!!!