BLUE MOON
(Music: Richard Rodgers / Lyrics: Lorenz Hart)

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch. - 1934
Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch. (vocal Kenny Sargent) - 1934
Benny Goodman & His Orch. (vocal: Helen Ward) - 1935
Al Bowlly (with Ray Noble & His Orch.) - 1935
Connee Boswell - 1935
Greta Keller - 1935
Coleman Hawkins with Michel Warlop & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1935
Georgie Auld & His Orch. - 1946
Mel Tormé (feat. in the film "Words And Music") - 1948
Billy Eckstine - 1949
Jane Froman (feat. in the film "With A Song In My Heart") - 1952
Billie Holiday - 1952
Ivory Joe Hunter - 1952
Elvis Presley - 1954
Blossom Dearie - 1955
Carmen McRae - 1956
Ella Fitzgerald - 1956
Jimmy Smith (Instr.) - 1957
Dean Martin (feat. in the film "The Young Lions" - 1958
Tony Bennett - 1958
Sam Cooke - 1958
Rosemary Clooney (with the Buddy Cole Trio) - 1959
Lou Donaldson & The 3 Sounds - 1959
George Siravo & His Orch. - 1959
Frank Sinatra - 1960
The Marcels - 1961
Julie London - 1961
Louis Prima (Instr.) - 1961
Cliff Richard - 1961
Bobby Stevens - 1961
Herb Lance & The Classics - 1961
Werner Müller & His Orch. - 1961
Ursel Jakob Und Die Starlets - 1961
Bobby Vinton - 1963
Dean Martin - 1964
Ray Conniff, His Orch. & Chorus - 1964
The Supremes - 1967
Bob Dylan - 1970
Mary Kay Place (feat. in the film "New York, New York") - 1977
Sha-Na-Na (feat. in the film "Grease") - 1978
The Originals - 1978
Showaddywaddy - 1978
The Roys - 1981
Chris Isaak - 1994
The Mavericks (feat. in the film "Apollo 13") - 1995
John Alford - 1996
The Jacobs Brothers - 2002
Rod Stewart - 2004

Also recorded by:
Frankie Carle; Athenian Trio; Jim Lammers; Nat King Cole;
The Ventures; Art Tatum; Cybill Shepherd; Oscar Peterson;
Bud Freeman; Sonny Stitt; Bill Doggett; Billy Butterfield;
Art Blakey; The Platonics; Bel-Aire Girls; Santo & Johnny;
Skitch Henderson; Ossie Scott; Queen Bees; Tommy Emmanuel;
Joe Bushkin; Douglas Duke ............... and many others.



Once upon a time before I took up smiling
I hated the moonlight
Shadows of the night that poets find beguiling
Seemed flat as the noonlight
With no one to stay up for, I went to sleep at ten
Life was a bitter cup for the saddest of all men

Once upon a time my heart was just an organ
My life had no mission
Now that I have you , to be as rich as Morgan
Is my one ambition
Once I awoke at seven hating the morning light
Now I awake in Heaven and all the world's all right

Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own

Blue Moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me
The only one my arms will ever hold
I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me"
And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold

Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own



TRIVIA:
Originally titled "Prayer (Oh Lord, make me a movie star)", it was to have been
sung by Jean Harlow in the 1933 film, "Hollywood Party". This idea was dropped
and Lorenz Hart wrote new words, changing the title to "It's Just That Kind of
Play" for proposed use in the 1934 film "Manhattan Melodrama". This version was
also not used, but a third attempt, titled "The Bad In Every Man", was sung by
Shirley Ross in that same film. The following year it underwent another lyric
change and became the classic romantic ballad "Blue Moon".


(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - September 2013)