How Blue Can You Get How Blue Can You Get "How Blue Can You Get" (alternatively "Downhearted") is a blues song first recorded by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in 1949. It is a slow twelve-bar blues that jazz critic Leonard Feather and his wife, Jane Feather, are credited with writing. The song has been recorded by several blues and other artists. In 1964, it was a hit for B.B. King and became a staple of his live shows. In 1949, Johnny Moore with his brother, Oscar Moore, on guitars, Billy Valentine on piano and vocal, and Johnny Miller on bass recorded "How Blue Can You
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning Yaphank", and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1918", as well as in 113 Broadway performances of "This Is the Army" in 1942. Jack Haley sang "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in the 1938 movie "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and in 1938 Alice Faye and Ethel Merman also sang the song at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. It was sung at a 1941 war rally against the America First Committee by New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Philadelphia. The song is sung in the 1932 Betty Boop short entitled "Oh! How I Hate to Get