Blue Monday (Fats Domino song) 1994 by Sten & Stanley. New Order did not cover this, their "Blue Monday" is original. 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
Blue Monday (opera) as part of the famous anthology, "Omnibus", under the title "135th Street". This production featured black singers, not white singers in blackface. "Blue Monday" is occasionally, though sparingly, revived both inside and outside of the United States, including a 1970 New York revival and recent productions in Adelaide, Australia, Livorno, Italy, Arlington, Virginia and Linz, Austria. A vocal score with a new orchestration by George Bassman was published in 1993. This version was recorded and released on CD that year. An abbreviated version of "Blue Monday", performed in blackface, was included in the 1945 film biography of Gershwin, "Rhapsody in