Dan Penn : Is A Bluebird Blue?

Dan Penn (born Wallace Daniel Pennington, 16 November 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" & "Do Right Woman" (with Chips Moman) and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby" (with Spooner Oldham). Penn has also produced hits such as "The Letter" by The Box Tops, among others. Though he is considered to be one of the great white soul singers, Penn has a meagre recorded output, preferring the relative anonymity of songwriting & producing.

Penn grew up in Vernon, Alabama and spent much of his teens and early twenties in the Quad Cities/Muscle Shoals area. He was a regular at Rick Hall's FAME Studios as a performer, songwriter and producer. It was during his time with FAME that Penn cut his first record, "Crazy Over You" in 1960, and wrote his first hit, "Is a Bluebird Blue?" which was recorded by Conway Twitty in the same year, and was later covered by James Brown. The success of "I'm Your Puppet," a #6 pop hit for James & Bobby Purify, convinced him that songwriting was a worthwhile (and lucrative) career choice.

This version of 'Is A Bluebird Blue' is Dan's own, from his most recent album, 'Junkyard Junky', available via Dan's website at http://www.danpenn.com

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[johnnyhuis]

You know, the catching lyric to this great song is, "Well, me and my baby went out the other night, Down Lovers' Lane we were walking, You said: " Do you love me, right away I started talking"; Thanks for posting - Enjoyed!

[BluesmanErick]

Dan Penn ...Spooner Oldham Chips Moman Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts....to name a few...!!!

[Coppillie]

Brilliant low down - but is a bluebird blue??

[dickidoo123]

Thanks again for posting these.

[beckabarecka]

Love it!! Alabama has produced a fine list musicians.... this is another one.