Blue Melody

"Blue Melody" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, first published in the September 1948 issue of "Cosmopolitan". The tragic tale of an African-American jazz singer, the story was inspired by the life of Bessie Smith and was originally titled "Scratchy Needle on a Phonograph Record."cite book |last=Alexander |first=Paul |authorlink= |title=Salinger: A Biography |year=1999 |publisher=Renaissance |location=Los Angeles |id=ISBN 1-58063-080-4 p. 130.] "Cosmopolitan" changed the title to "Blue Melody" without Salinger's consent, a "slick" magazine tactic that was one of the reasons the author decided, in the late forties, that "he wanted to publish only in "The New Yorker"."cite book |last=Alexander |first=Paul |authorlink= |title=Salinger: A Biography |year=1999 |publisher=Renaissance |location=Los Angeles |id=ISBN 1-58063-080-4 p. 130.]

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* [http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/bluemelody.html "Blue Melody"]