Blue Moon

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lyricist:	Lorenz Hart (in 1934)
composer:	Richard Rodgers (composer) (in 1934)

publisher:	EMI Catalogue Partnership EMI Music Publishing (do not use as a release label!) EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP) EMI United Partnership Ltd. Robbins Music Corporation SBK United Partnership Ltd. フジパシフィックミュージック SBK事業部ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company - do not use as release label)

lyrics page:	https://genius.com/Frank-sinatra-blue-moon-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:	https://secondhandsongs.com/work/8837 [info]
Wikidata:	Q804574 [info]

later parody versions:	Moulsecoomb - Govt. Health Warning
later translated versions:	Blå lys
later versions:	Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)
part of:	New York, New York (soundtrack of the 1977 film)
is the basis for:	Mondnacht am Meer
arrangements:	Concerto Grosso no. II: II. Blue Moon
music quoted on:	Opening Production (from Jane Froman's album, "With a Song in My Heart")

Recordings

Date	Title	Attributes	Artist	Length
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1934-11-16	Blue Moon		Casa Loma Orchestra	3:21
1934-11-16	Blue Moon		Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra	?:??
1934-11-16	Blue Moon		Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra	3:14
1934-11-20	Blue Moon		Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra	3:13
1935-01-15	Bue Moon		Benny Goodman and His Orchestra	3:15
1935-03-02	Blue Moon (1935-03-22: Salle Chopin, Paris, France)	cover	Coleman Hawkins acc. par Michel Warlop et son orchestre avec Arthur Briggs	3:15
1938-01-25	Луна		Джаз-оркестр под управлением А. Варламова	3:00
1939-02-16	Blue Moon		Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra	3:20
1940-01-10	Medley: My Melancholy Baby / Moon Love / Stomping at the Savoy / Blue Moon		Glenn Miller & His Orchestra	?:??
1940-11-21	Blue Moon		Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, His Orchestra and Band Chorus	3:41
1944-08-20	Blue Moon	live	Billie Rogers	?:??
1945-01-17	Blue Moon	instrumental	Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra	2:40
1945-10-23	Blue Moon		Georgie Auld	2:56
1946-01-15	Blue Moon		Georgie Auld	3:05
1946-01-15	Blue Moon		Georgie Auld & His Orchestra	2:54
1946-04-03	Blue Moon		Oscar Peterson	2:53
1946	Blue Moon	instrumental	Oscar Peterson Quartet	2:52
1947-11	Blue Moon		Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra feat. Clark Terry	3:02
1949	Blue Moon		Mel Tormé	3:12
1951-04	Blue Moon	cover and instrumental	Strings and Keys	3:33
1951-07-25	Blue Moon	instrumental	Wynton Kelly	3:09
1952-01-26	Blue Moon	instrumental	The Oscar Peterson Trio	2:39
1952-03-26	Blue Moon		Billie Holiday	3:31
1952-04-06	Blue Moon	instrumental	Dizzy Gillespie	4:27
1953-02	Blue Moon	instrumental and live	Dave Brubeck Quartet Featuring Paul Desmond	?:??
1953-12-07	Blue Moon	instrumental	The Oscar Peterson Trio	2:57
1953-12-11	Blue Moon	instrumental	Bud Freeman	2:43
1953-12-15	Blue Moon		Duke Ellington	2:46
1954-01-05	Blue Moon	live	Billie Holiday	2:15
1954-01-23	Blue Moon (live, 1954-01-23: Kölner Messe Halle V, Cologne, Germany)	live	Billie Holiday	2:05
1954-04-19	Blue Moon	instrumental	Red Norvo Quintet	3:24
1954-06-08	Blue Mood		Dizzy Gillespie Sextet	3:30
1954-08-15 – 1954-08-19	Blue Moon		Elvis Presley	2:44
1954-08-19	Blue Moon		Elvis Presley	2:41
1954-08-19	Blue Moon	cover	Elvis Presley	2:41
1954-08-19	Blue Moon (alternate take)	cover	Elvis Presley	3:15
1954-08-19	Blue Moon (alternate take)	cover	Elvis Presley	3:05
1954-08-19	Blue Moon (outtake)	cover	Elvis Presley	2:55
1954-09-14	Blue Moon	instrumental	Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra	4:00
1954-09-14	Blue Moon	instrumental	Roy Eldridge	3:57
1954-10-29	Blue Moon	instrumental	Roy Eldridge & Dizzy Gillespie	9:05
1954-10-29	Blue Moon	instrumental	Roy and Diz	9:05
1955-01-20	Blue Moon	instrumental	Clifford Brown	3:16
1955-10-11	Blue Moon	instrumental	Lyle Murphy	?:??
1955-10-11	Blue Moon	cover	Lyle Murphy	?:??
1955-10-14	Blue Moon	instrumental	Ruby Braff, Ellis Larkins	4:11
1955	Blue Moon	instrumental	Blossom Dearie	2:43
1956-03-28	Blue Moon		Carmen McRae	2:37
1956-08-21 – 1956-08-31	Blue Moon		Ella Fitzgerald	3:15
1957-02-13	Blue Moon	instrumental	Jimmy Smith	8:44
1957-09-07	Blue Moon (live, 1957-09-07: Orpheum Theater, Seattle, WA, USA)		Louis Armstrong	5:55
1957-09-29	Blue Moon	instrumental and live	Roy Eldridge	2:18
1957-09-29	Blue Moon	instrumental and live	Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge	2:23
1957-10-10	Blue Moon	instrumental	Russell Garcia and Strings with Roy Eldridge	3:17
1958-07	Blue Moon		Julie London	2:31
1958-12-26	Blue Moon		Rosemary Clooney with The Buddy Cole Trio	2:26
1959-02-18	Blue Moon	instrumental	Lou Donaldson with The Three Sounds	3:05
1959-09-14 – 1959-09-15	Bue Moon	instrumental	The Lou McGarity Big Eight	2:29
1959-11-23	Blue Moon	instrumental	Ted McNabb & Co.	?:??
1960-03-23	Blue Moon	instrumental	Lionel Hampton	3:40
1960-09-01	Blue Moon (1960-09-01 studio recording)	cover	Frank Sinatra	2:52
1961	Blue Moon		The Marcels	2:22
1961	Blue Moon		The Marcels	2:17
1961	Blue Moon		Ella Fitzgerald	3:18
1962-03-18	Blue Moon	instrumental and live	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	6:02
1962-03	Blue Moon	cover	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	6:01
1963	Blue Moon		Caterina Valente	1:41
1965	Blue Moon		Amália Rodrigues, Norrie Paramor	?:??
1968-09-16	Blue Moon (studio jam)	cover	The Beatles	1:11
1969-05-03	Blue Moon (take 1)	cover	Bob Dylan	2:30
1969-05-03	Blue Moon (take 2)	cover	Bob Dylan	2:21
1969-09-07	Blue Moon	cover and live	Grateful Dead	1:56
1969-12-06	Blue Moon	live	Betty Carter	2:00
1975-03	Young Americans Medley	cover, live and medley	David Bowie With Cher	6:32
1975-11-23	Duet with Cher: Can you hear me? / Young Americans Medley (live, 1975-11-23: “Cher”)	cover, live and medley	David Bowie	?:??
1975-11-23	Medley	cover, live and medley	David Bowie feat. Cher	6:41
1975-11-23	Young Americans (medley)	cover, live and medley	David Bowie	6:32
1975	Young Americans Medley	cover, live and medley	David Bowie with Cher	6:33
1977	Blue Moon		Robert De Niro & Mary Kay Place	3:28
1978-07-20	Blue Moon	instrumental	Clark Terry, Red Mitchell, Horace Parlan	7:26
1978-08	Blue Moon	cover	Spider Murphy Gang	2:15
1983	Blue Moon (live, 1983-7-25: Βουλιαγμένη, Greece)	cover and live	Μαντώ Σταματοπούλου & Κουαρτέτο Μανώλη Μικέλη	2:57
1986-12-17 – 1986-12-19	Blue Moon		Chet Baker Quartet	6:28
1986-12	Blue Moon		Chet Baker	6:32
1987-11-12	Blue Moon	instrumental	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	9:52
1989-06-16 – 1989-06-17	Medley: Book of Love / Blue Moon / Do You Wanna Dance / Chantilly Lace / At the Hop / Rock ’n’ Roll Is Here to Stay	cover, live and medley	Cliff Richard, Vernon Girls, Dallas Boys & Kalin Twins	6:42
1991-03	Blue Moon	cover	Teresa Brewer	6:02
1992-02-15	Blue Moon	instrumental	Joe Pass with Red Mitchell	5:46
1993-01	Blue Moon	instrumental	Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	4:39
1993	Blue Moon	instrumental and live	Brad Goode, Von Freeman, Paul McKee, Ron Perrillo, Stewart Miller, Bob Rummage	12:38
1997-01	Blue Moon	live	Lorenz Hart et Richard Rodgers	4:35
1998-06-01	Blue Moon	instrumental	Houston Person	5:46
1999-05	Blue Moon		Wesla Whitfield	2:02
2004-02	Blue Moon	instrumental	Bob Kindred with John Di Martino, George Mraz, Ben Riley	7:25
2004-10-13	Blue Moon (live, 2004-10-13: Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP, UK)	live	Rod Stewart	4:27
2004	Blue Moon		Rebecca Kilgore	4:18
2006-02-13 – 2006-02-15	Blue Moon	cover	Ann Hampton Callaway	5:40
2006-06-16	I Don’t Blame You / All I Have To Do Is Dream / Blue Moon (live, 2006-06-16: Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN, USA)	cover, live and medley	Cat Power	5:54
2009-12-31	Blue Moon (live, 2009-12-31: AmericanAirlines Arena, Miami, FL, USA)	cover and live	Phish	3:54
2011-10	Blue Moon	instrumental	Ahmad Jamal	9:55
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