"Stormy Monday Blues" is a jazz song first recorded in 1942 by Earl Hines and His Orchestra with Billy Eckstine on vocals.
[2] Billy Eckstine then enters with the vocal: It's gone and started rainin', I'm as lonesome as a man can be It's gone and started rainin', I'm as lonesome as a man can be 'Cause every time it rains, I realize what you mean to me The lyrics "stormy" or "Monday" do not appear in the song.
A trumpet solo by Maurice "Shorty" McConnell[3] with big band backing is featured in the second half of the song.
[2] Eckstine later recorded "Stormy Monday Blues" in 1959 with Count Basie for their Basie/Eckstine Incorporated album.
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