Blue Moon (song)
Blue Moon is one of Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart ( lyrics ) in 1933 authored pop song, the style across developed for Evergreen and jazz standard and has become popular especially in the version of the Marcels. This is the only title of the two authors, who was not part of a musical.
Genesis
The song has an unusual development in the history of music, because of the resultant in 1933 with rare melody chord changes a total of four text types are available in the following period were written by the original authors.
First text version
Rodgers and Hart were in the film production of Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer as a film music composer under contract when they received the order for the musical - comedy project "Hollywood Revue of 1933 " since May 1933. They wrote this yet in May 1933 a total of 12 tracks, three of which were taken in the screenplay. It was Prayer (Oh Lord Make Me A Movie Star ) ( sung by Jean Harlow, the precursor of Blue Moon ), I'm One of the Boys (Nina Mae McKinney ) and Black Diamond ( Joan Crawford ). These songs, however, were also not presented in the film, which was titled Hollywood Party on May 24, 1934 in the cinemas. In the script, the title of Prayer will be held on June 14, 1933 for the film under number 225, the copyright of the Author application was filed on July 10, 1933.
Second and third version
Then the melody of Prayer for the MGM movie Manhattan Melodrama was provided in March 1934 with a new text and received the title It's Just That Kind of Play ( Manhattan Melodrama ), sung by Shirley Ross, the copyright for this was registered on March 30, 1934. The song was not used in the film again. Instead, MGM asked the two authors for the film yet to write a nightclub title. Lorenz Hart wrote the melody now the third textual version under the title Prayer ( The Bad in Ev'ry Man), who survived the final inspection with singer Shirley Ross in the film and on May 2, first time in 1934 appeared in theaters.
Fourth Version
Shortly after the release of the film hit MGM music publisher Jack Robbins of Robbins Music Publishing author team to provide the song with kommerziellerem, more romantic lyrics and catchy rhymes and promised then to make it from coast to coast known. Result was already the next day the title of Blue Moon, which was filed in November 1934 Copyright. Lyricist Hart put the request at the fourth attempt by almost sarcastic and reluctantly and now authored a text which have too little depth in his view. In this modification, Blue Moon Hotel was placed there and used as the opening melody in the year 1934, performed by the Orchestra Raymond Paige in the radio show Hollywood. Of these, a single- version under the title Once in a Blue Moon was born on April 5, 1934 recorded (Victor # 24604 ).
The title is derived from the Blue Moon goes back to the 1528 phrase " blue moon" which even " never " means as much as " very rare" or. Today's sayings "until a blue moon " or "once in a blue moon" can be translated as " the cows come home ". It also established a two-time full moon in the same month is expressed in the English language, a rare phenomenon that occurs approximately every 2 ½ years. In the song Love luck is sung, the singer has been considered rather unlikely ( just "once in a blue moon" ). At the same time it is also used as a pun, because the protagonist is sad ( " blue" ), until he finally found this love happiness.
The first successful production of records
On November 16, 1934 Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra stood with his and his singer Kenny Sargent in the recording studio and recorded the first commercially successful recording session of the song. She reached the first place of the charts, where they remained for 3 weeks. It was one of the first big hits of the just founded in August 1934 the record label Decca Records (# 312). Shortly thereafter came a cover of Ted Fiorito on November 19, 1934; it was followed by Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra (20 November 1934, trumpeter Bunny Berigan ). Ray Noble was on January 12, 1935 with Al Bowlly in the studio and placed his composure to rank 5 on the charts. Is often considered the original version of Connee Boswell, however, was only on January 15, 1935, and thus in time much later than the real original. The next chart note succeeded the Benny Goodman Orchestra with his on the same day (15 January 1935) originating recording with the Bandvokalistin Helen Ward, which penetrated up to Rank 2.
Other cover versions
Significant cover versions come in particular by Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, and Billy Eckstine. Frank Sinatra sang the theme with the orchestra of Tommy Dorsey in November 1940 several times on the radio and presented it in April 1954, again on the radio, with Sinatra Symphonette; its only commercial studio recording of the piece was with the orchestra of Nelson Riddle on September 1, 1960 for the LP Sinatra's Swingin 'Session! recorded. Mel Tormé presented his version of the film about the life of the two composers Rodgers / Hart, Words And Music. Produced by MGM film came on 31 December 1948 in the cinemas, the plate this was released in April 1949 and brought it up to # 20 Billy Eckstine with the Orchestra Hugo Winterhalter came in March 1949 to rank 21 Ivory Joe Hunter was November 27, 1951 at the studio, a jazz version of Oscar Peterson was born on 7 December 1953.
Elvis Presley was still with Sun Records, he had to record on August 19, 1954 Blue Moon. On that admission yet emerged Tomorrow Night and I'll Never Let You Go. The recording date is controversial because producer and label owner Sam Phillips had made a mistake in the matrix lettering. Take 4 of these Sun - session with the unusual Elvis - interpretation was considered in March 1956 on the RCA LP Elvis Presley, on September 8, 1956 by RCA released as a single (Rank 55). Tony Bennett brought on July 28, 1958 his sentimental version out thereof.
Caterina Valente sang it on her album Caterina Valente in London in the year 1964. Bob Dylan released his interpretation of the song in 1970 on the album Self Portrait. The Cowboy Junkies published in 1989, her version of Blue Moon Revisited ( Song for Elvis ).
Million Sellers
The Doo Wop band The Marcels took on 15 February 1961 a total of four songs, one of which was discarded. Producer Stu Phillips then practiced with the quintet within an hour to spare song Blue Moon a, were recording time available for only another 10 minutes; in only two takes of this version was ready. In February 1961 she was the first single of the group on the market. The rapid Doo Wop version of Marcel's is barely recognizable as Blue Moon, also because it is the arrangement of Zoom Zoom Zoom the Doo Wop group Collegians copied and provided with intensive onomatopoeia. The record was played 26 times by radio DJ Murray the K at the radio station WINS in New York during a single program, persisted for 3 weeks on the first rank in the U.S. for 2 weeks in the UK and sold over 2.5 million copies. Richard Rodgers had criticized this version and warned in numerous newspaper ads before buying the plate; also the music magazine Billboard had not escaped the stuttering -like and hasty vocals.
Ursel Jacob took advantage of the moderate success of the Marcels in Germany ( rank 13) and brought in the same year a German version out, without hereby to reach the charts. Only Harry Glück brought in June 1963 his only hit to rank 13 on the German charts. In November 1980, Showaddywaddy published a version for the UK market.
Statistics
By Blue Moon of ASCAP According exist a total of 113 releases. With 808 ( Richard Rodgers ) and 354 ( Lorenz Hart) copyright registered titles, both authors are among the most successful of American music. Blue Moon appeared in numerous films, including Words And Music ( 1948), Malaya (premiere 27 December 1949), East Side West Side ( December 22 1949 ) or With a Song in My Heart (4 April 1952).