"Misty Blue" is a song written by Bob Montgomery that has been recorded and made commercially successful by several music artists.

A decade later, blues artist Dorothy Moore released the highest-charting version of the song and it reached the top ten in several different radio formats.

Her producer Owen Bradley loved the song and as he couldn’t push her to do it, he cut it country style with Wilma Burgess.

"Misty Blue" was released in October 1966 and spent most of December 1966 and January–February 1967 in the top ten, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

[3] Arnold's version of "Misty Blue" appeared on his 1967 studio album with RCA Records entitled, The Last Word in Lonesome.

"[14] Evidently reluctant to release the track themselves, Malaco Records shopped Moore's "Misty Blue" to major labels without success, with the track remaining "in the can" until November 1975 when the cash-strapped Malaco Records used the last of its resources to press Moore's "Misty Blue" which they released themselves.

[15] Malaco Records did shop the updated track to Florida-based TK Records whose owner Henry Stone passed on releasing Moore's "Misty Blue" while agreeing for TK to act as national distributor for Malaco's own release of the track which Stone began promoting heavily via his own independent network.

[16] After receiving its initial airplay in Chicago and Washington DC,[13] Moore's single broke in the southern states in April 1976 and three months later it was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In 2002, the English trip hop trio Amillionsons released a song which heavily sampled the track titled "Mistiblue", which reached number 39 in the UK.

In January 1976, American country music artist Billie Jo Spears recorded the song alongside producer Larry Butler.

[3] Spears had recently regained success with the help of Butler's modern production and had major hits with songs like "Blanket on the Ground" and "What I've Got in Mind".

After internationally issuing a single, Spears released "Misty Blue" to the American market in May 1976 via United Artists Records.