Lonely Avenue

Infobox Single
Name = Lonely Avenue


Caption =
Artist = Ray Charles
from Album = Yes Indeed!
A-side = "Lonely Avenue"
B-side = "Leave My Woman Alone"
Released = 1956
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = R&B
Length = 2:36
Label = Atlantic 8025
Writer = Doc Pomus
Composer =
Producer = Ahmet Ertegün, Jerry Wexler
Chart position = 6
Last single = "Mary Ann"
(1956)
This single = "Lonely Avenue"
(1956)
Next single = "Drown in My Own Tears"
(1956)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Yes Indeed!
Type = studio
prev_track = "Swanee River Rock (Talkin' 'Bout That River)"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "Lonely Avenue"
track_no = 8
next_track = "Blackjack"
next_no = 9Infobox Song
Name = Lonely Avenue


Caption =
Artist = Van Morrison
Album = Too Long in Exile
A-side =
B-side =
Released = June 8, 1993
Format =
Recorded = The Wool Hall Studios, Bath, England
Genre = R&B, Rock
Length = 6:24
Label = Mercury, Polydor
Writer = Doc Pomus
Composer =
Producer = Van Morrison
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Too Long in Exile
Type = studio
prev_track = "Big Time Operators"
prev_no = 2
this_track = "Lonely Avenue"
track_no = 3
next_track = "Ball & Chain"
next_no = 4"Lonely Avenue" is a popular song written by Doc Pomus that became a rhythm and blues hit for Ray Charles in 1956. [cite web
url=http://www.history-of-rock.com/doc_pomus_and_mort_shulman.htm
title=Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman
publisher=www.history-of-rock
accessdate=2007-06-30] Formerly less than successful as a songwriter, this song drew the attention of the music business to Doc Pomus. [cite web
url=http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid36818.aspx
title=Heart of the Matter - Doc Pomus Blues
publisher=The Phoenix
accessdate=2007-07-01]

Covers

*Van Morrison covered this song on his 1993 album "Too Long in Exile", and was later included in the double live album "A Night in San Francisco" as the first song in a medley that lasted just under fifteen minutes. Biographer John Collis says "The 15-minute sequence billed as "Lonely Avenue/4 O'Clock in the Morning (Try for Sleep)", does indeed begin with the Pomus song and includes the Morrison blues in the title, but also wheels on Jimmy Witherspoon for his own medley and also throws in passing quotes from "Be Bop a Lula", Sly Stewart's "Family Affair" (with Jonn Savannah contributing a falsetto) and Roy Orbison's "Down the Line" among other references." [cite book |author=Collis, John |title=Inarticulate Speech of the Heart |publisher=Little Brown and Company |year=1996 |pages=p.182 |isbn=0-306-80811-0]
*The Animals covered it on the 1977 reunion album "Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted".

Notes

External links

* [http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/books/book_lonely_avenue_doc_pomus.shtml Lonely Avenue: the Unlikely Live and Times of Doc Pomus]
* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e# Lyrics and Audio Samples] 1990s, Too Long in Exile