Navy Blue

Album: Navy Blue (1964)
Charted: 6
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Songfacts®:

  • A full-page advertisement appeared on page 5 of the February 1, 1964 issue of Billboard for "Navy Blue" hailed as "The first big hit of '64 from 20th Century-Fox Records" by Diane Renay.

    This prophecy came true. Unfortunately, this was as good as things ever got for Diane Renay. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Chart and #1 on the middle of the road chart, but Miss Renay sank without trace.
  • "Navy Blue" was written by Bob Crewe, Bud Rehak and Eddie Rambeau, and like Miss Renay's hypothetical sailor friend, is mostly forgotten. Rehak and Rambeau also wrote Renay's follow-up song, the likewise nautical "Kiss Me Sailor," which went to #29 a few months later.

    Eddie Rambeau cracked the Top-40 the next year as an artist with the song "Concrete And Clay," which made #35. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2

Comments: 1

  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1964 (January 19th) "Navy Blue" by Diane Renay entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on March 8th it peaked at #6 (for 2 weeks) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100 (and 5 of those 12 weeks were on the Top 10)...
    Her only other Top 100 record also had a naval theme, "Kiss Me Sailor", it entered the Top 100 on March 29th, 1964 and reached #29 on May 10th and stayed in the Top 100 for 8 weeks...
    "Navy Blue" reached #1 (for 1 week) on March 15th, 1964 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Ms. Renay, born Renee Diane Kushner, will celebrate her 69th birthday in six months on July 13th...
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