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| Thread ID: 48056 | 2004-08-13 00:06:00 | Off Topic: HTOTW#25 'Moon' tunes quiz. | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 261040 | 2004-08-13 00:06:00 | [HTOTW=Hot Tunes Of The Week. Real Audio Player or an alternative capable of playing real media files is required to listen to the streaming audio of the sites hosting the 1920s/30s music of a golden era of hot bands and orchestras.] This weeks quiz: Name some tunes composed in the 1920s or 1930s that have the word 'moon', 'moonlight', or 'moonshine' etc in the title. Growly has already set the ball rolling with that fine Rodgers and Hart hit from 1934, 'Blue Moon'. I'll be back Sunday evening to see how things are going and to give links to some good streaming 'moon' music. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 261041 | 2004-08-13 11:24:00 | Moonlight becomes you. In the light of the silvery moon. |
Old Tom (5871) | ||
| 261042 | 2004-08-13 14:12:00 | After removing my first 10 choices (as I know they're too recent for your taste), how about these?: Shine On Harvest Moon Moonlight And Roses Carolina Moon Moonlight Bay That Old Devil Moon Give Me The Moonlight Paper Moon I See The Moon How High The Moon Moon of Manakoora (sp?) Moonshine Lullaby (Annie Get Your Gun) Rising Of The Moon (19C Irish Fenian) Moonlight Serenade |
Laura (43) | ||
| 261043 | 2004-08-13 14:21:00 | I have no Idea when these came out Blue Moon - Richard Rodgers (The Marcels) Fly Me to the Moon - Bart Howard Moon over Naples (Spanish Eyes) - Charles Singleton Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller It's Only a Paper Moon - Harold Arlen Moon River - Henry Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany's Moonlight in Vermont - Karl Suessdorf |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 261044 | 2004-08-13 14:23:00 | What is all this music that nobody listens to? Can you do a modern (as in 2000-2004) theme next week? | kiki (762) | ||
| 261045 | 2004-08-13 14:37:00 | Sounds like a job for someone who actually listens to music written then. Why don't you give it a try yourself for the younger generation to rack their brains over? Or any other takers for the task? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 261046 | 2004-08-14 09:16:00 | Poor kiki, you havent lived, music nobody listens to???????? Tune in tomorrow evening to hear some real music. You can get your pop stuff all the time everywhere, even on National Radio these days. Admittedly Wayne Mowat plays some 1920s-30s periodically on his afternoon music program, but that is just like a small gem on a beach of pebble dross. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 261047 | 2004-08-14 21:10:00 | My dear Terry,you should not cast pearls amongs swine;) | Old Tom (5871) | ||
| 261048 | 2004-08-15 08:03:00 | Thanks for all the moon titles. There are so many songs with moon in the title (perhaps fifty million?) that only a tiny selection can be made. I will concentrate on those that have a hot flavour, or played by bands that are thought of as being hot. Growly last week submitted the first tune, 'Blue Moon'. This will be the feature tune for HTOTW#25. This a composition by the Rodgers and Hart team, and the version we know was published and recorded in 1934. It became their biggest popular hit. However it didn't start off being called 'Blue Moon', here is what Dismuke tells us about it on his Hit Of The Week site, hope I'm not stealing his copyright, but it is in a good cause: "Blue Moon" was composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart and had a rather interesting history before it finally became a bit hit in the late 1930s. Initially, Rodgers and Hart wrote the song for the MGM film Hollywood Review of 1933 which was supposed to star Jean Harlow. The song had entirely different lyrics and was called "Prayer." Both Harlow and the song, however, were dropped from the picture which eventually opened under the name Hollywood Party. MGM then asked Hart to give the song new lyrics for another picture, Manhattan Melodrama which opened in 1934 and starred Clark Gable, William Powell and Myrna Loy. Manhattan Melodrama, by the way, was the film that the notorious 1930s bank robber John Dillinger had been watching at Chicago's Biograph Theatre shortly before he was gunned down. The original plan was for the song to be performed under the title "Its Just That Kind of Play" - but it too was dropped from the picture. Once again, Hart made changes and the song finally debuted in the film under the title "The Bad In Every Man" performed by Shirley Ross. After Manhattan Melodrama, Jack Robbins, the head of the MGM's publishing division, told Hart that he did not like the song's title but agreed to promote it if Hart changed the title to something more commercially viable. Hart replied by asking if Robbins what kind of title he had in mind - something corny such as "Blue Moon"? When Robbins answered in the affirmative, Hart once again rewrote the lyrics and "Blue Moon" became Rodgers and Hart's biggest hit up to that time. You can visit Dismukes' Hit of the Week here (dismuke.org)and scroll down to find 'Blue Moon'. There is a 1940 version of the tune there by Richard Himber and his orchestra. Here are the lyrics (www.thepeaches.com). For the music let's hear Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra in 1934, Blue Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). Another tune mentioned by Laura and Rob is 'It's Only a Paper Moon'. One of my favourite versions of this is by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in 1928. Paper Moon (www.redhotjazz.com) Cliff 'Ukelele Ike' Edwards also had a good Paper Moon recording. Tom's 'Moonlight Becomes You' is also a favourite of mine as sung by Bing Crosby, but it comes from the Road to Morocco film of 1942, so unfortunately doesn't qualify for HTOTW. However 'By The Light Of The Silvery Moon' was written in 1919 and has been extensively recorded ever since. There is this 1942 Fats Waller recording on the Red Hot Jazz site Silvery Moon (www.redhotjazz.com) which is pleasant to listen to. Oh, and talking of Dorothy Lamour, well we were by implication, when mentioning Road to Morocco, Lauras' Moon of Manakoora was sung by Dot Lamour in the 1937 film The Hurricane. That was a good film, about due for a re-run. My favourite female singer of this era is Annette Hanshaw, a real charmer, here she is in 1928 singing Get Out And Get Under the Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). Hear her little catch phrase at the end "that's all". [Eddie Cantor sometimes used to say on his 78s "turn me over, I'm all done on this side, quack quack"] I suppose we have to include the Man in the Moon, he wouldn't want to feel left out. Here are the California Ramblers also in 1928 a great year for music Me and The Man In The Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). There is an Ambrose version of this tune with vocals, but unfortunately there is no site that streams it. The California Ramblers had many hot white musicians of the day at various times in their line up, including Miff Mole, Red Nichols, Adrian Rollini, the Dorseys. What next? Well, Robs' Moonlight Serenade was written and recorded in 1939, and the lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish who also wrote the lyrics to 'Stardust' featured in HTOTW#1 (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz), but I'm not too keen on Glen Miller, the 'Miller sound' doesnt do much for me (but that's just me), and it's too far removed from my era which maintains that jazz had virtually ended by 1935 :), so we'll have a change of rhythm and move onto Don Redman in 1932 playing Underneath The Haarlem Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). Keeping in the rhythmic mood lets hear from that fine, but short-lived band, Fred Elizalde and his Anglo American band in 1928 playing Under The Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). Hear some fine trumpet from Chelsey Quealey, and Adrian Rollini on bass sax. In 1926 the Arkansaw Travellers, which included luminaries like the Jimmy Dorsey, Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Vic Berton, Chelsey Quealey, recorded Take In The Sun, Hang Out The Moon (www.redhotjazz.com). This nearly leads onto the topic for the next HTOTW, but first some more moon [i]and sun from the Paul Whiteman orchestra. In 1930 Maurice Chevalier and Claudette Colbert starred in a film called 'The Big Pond'. One memorable tune from that film was sung by Chevalier and called 'Livin' In The Sunlight, Livin' In The Moonlight'. I can't find the original Chevalier in streaming audio, but here is a fine rendering by Bing Crosby and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in 1930. LivinLuvn (www.redhotjazz.com). So, we have had the moonlight, next HTOTW lets have the sunlight. The homework for next week is to think of tunes with the words sun, sunlight, sunshine, sunnyside (hint) etc in the title. Remember, they must be tunes recorded or composed in the 20s or early 30s, and preferably be hot, jazzy or have some swingy rhythm :) Just before we go, some bonus moon tunes: Annette Hanshaw,1927,Under The Moon (www.redhotjazz.com) Annette Hanshaw, 1929, Carolina Moon (www.redhotjazz.com) Annette Hanshaw, 1933, Moon Song (www.redhotjazz.com) Midi, Shine On Harvest Moon (www.rienzihills.com) Midi, Moonlight Bay (www.rienzihills.com) Midi, Moonlight Serenade (www.rienzihills.com), incidently I have a problem with their lyrics writer and date of composition on this site. I am certain it is wrong. Mitchell Parrish wrote the words and the song was first recorded in 1939. Hoagy Carmichael, 1934, Moon Country (www.redhotjazz.com) Lee Morse, 1927,Keep Sweeping The Cobwebs Off The Moon (www.redhotjazz.com) Don't forget, next HTOTW will be 'sun' tunes. |
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