| Beaucoups of Blues | |
| Cover: | Ringo Starr - Beaucoups of Blues single cover.jpg |
| Caption: | US picture sleeve |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Ringo Starr |
| Album: | Beaucoups of Blues |
| B-Side: | Coochy Coochy |
| Released: | 5 October 1970 (US only) |
| Recorded: | 25–26 June 1970 |
| Studio: | Music City Recorders, Nashville, Tennessee |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:35 |
| Label: | Apple |
| Producer: | Pete Drake |
| Next Title: | It Don't Come Easy |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
"Beaucoups of Blues" is the title song from Ringo Starr's 1970 country album of the same name. It was released as Starr's first solo single on 5 October 1970 on Apple[1] in several countries,[2] but not the UK, and entered the charts in both the US and Germany where it reached number 87 and number 43 respectively.[3] [4] The song was written by Nashville singer-songwriter Buzz Rabin,[5] and appeared on his 1974 solo album Cross Country Cowboy.[6]
Starr recorded "Beaucoups of Blues" in Nashville during an overnight session on 25–26 June 1970.[7] He selected it from material compiled by Pete Drake, his producer, who had amassed a collection of potential songs from Nashville songwriters for Starr's country album.[8]
The B-Side "Coochy Coochy" was written by Starr.
Cash Box described the song as a "fine country single," further stating that it is "gentle and easy going and Ringo sounds right at home."[9] Record World said that "Ringo Starr's C&W warblings will not go unnoticed in either the country or pop fields."[10]
The song was later included on Starr's greatest hits albums Blast from Your Past[11] and .[12] In 2015, it was included on the album ,[13] released to accompany the similarly titled exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame.[14]