Ray B. Anthony - Alice Blue Gown - 1959 Rockabilly - SUN 333

First ever White Promotion label on SUN Records! SUN Started using this kinds of labels from nr 333 Ray B. Anthony - Vocal and Guitar Carl Mann - Piano Eddie Bush - Guitar Robert Oatswell - Bass W.S. Holland - Drums The connection may not have been as obvious in 1960, but this was essentially one more attempt to cash in the success of Carl Mann’s unexpected hit record “Mona Lisa“. In fact, Mann’s record was still on the charts when this release went out to the disc jockey’s. What, you might be wondering, was an Alice Blue Gown? Apparently, light blue had come into vogue after being introduced by Alice Longworth, daughter of ex- president Theodore Roosevelt. An “Alice Blue Gown“, therefore, was a light blue gown that Mrs. Longworth might well have worn. Written in 1919 for the musical “Irere“, “Alice Blue Gown“ became a much-loved waltz in the inter-war years and got another lease on life when “Irene“ was adapted for the screen in 1940 with Anna Neagle and Ray Milland.