Blue Monday (Fats Domino song) Blue Monday (Fats Domino song) "Blue Monday" is a song originally written by Dave Bartholomew, first recorded by Smiley Lewis and issued as a single, in January 1954, on Imperial Records (catalog # 5268). The single, with a slow-rocking beat, features an instrumental electric guitar solo by Lewis. It was later popularized in a recording by Fats Domino in 1956, also on Imperial (catalog # 5417), on which the songwriting credit was shared between him and Bartholomew. Most later versions have credited Bartholomew and Domino as co-writers. The baritone saxophone solo is by Herbert Hardesty. Domino's version was featured in
Blue Monday (New Order song) The song appeared in "Spin Magazine's" "Hits of the Year" for 1999. "Blue Monday" is also said to have helped pave the way for the cyberpunk trend, as best exemplified in the popularity of the movie "The Matrix", which appeared soon afterwards. In an interview of Joel Gallen in "Los Angeles Magazine", the music supervisors were discussing the use of Orgy's "Blue Monday" for a football scene in "Not Another Teen Movie", among others. Stating that the song "had energy", they eventually selected it for the movie, and it appeared in the soundtrack as well. "Blue Monday" charted internationally, some