Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell was one of the smooth, sports-jacketed American singers to be washed away by the mid-50s rock revolution. He made the original version of Singing The Blues which was Number 1 in Britain and the US in 1957 (Tommy Steele also made Number 1 in Britain with his cover version of the song). Mitchell also scored in 1957 with Knee Deep In The Blues and Rock-A-Billy, but despite his attempts to accommodate himself to the new music, after Heartaches By The Numbers in 1959 he rapidly faded from popularity.