Blue Velvet

"Blue Velvet" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 21, 1963, and held the top spot for three weeks. It also spent eight weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart. Vinton's version of "Blue Velvet" failed to make the British charts when it was first released, but a re-released version in 1990 went to #2 in the United Kingdom. It was #7 in Australia and #9 in Korea.

(Blue velvet) She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May, her tender sighs Love was ours Ours, a love I held tightly Feeling the rapture grow Like a flame burning brightly But when she left gone was the glow of Blue velvet But in my heart there'll always be Precious and warm a memory through the years And I still can see blue velvet through my tears She wore blue velvet But in my heart there'll always be Precious and warm a memory through the years And I still can see blue velvet through my tears (Blue velvet, ooh)