More Sinatra Moon Songs

Fly Me To The Moon

Beyond some of the more obvious ones like Blue Moon, Moonlight in Vermont (Bob had that one at #76), and probably Sinatra's most popular moon song Bart Howard's Fly Me To The Moon, Frank Sinatra did quite a few songs with a lunar theme.

Moonlight Sinatra album: a Sinatra Riddle Reprise album dedicated to moon songs

Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnson wrote this one.  Frank recorded it in 1965:

Moon River has been so overplayed we stop really listening to it, but Frank does a great job with Mercer's lyrics.

Frank does a fabulous version of Glenn Miller and Mitchell Parish's Moonlight Serenade (Bob also had this at #91):

Jimmy Van-Heusen and Johnny Burke wrote Polkadots and Moonbeams and Moonlight Becomes You. Polkadots and Moonbeams was one of Frank's first big hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

This is also a Van-Heusen Burke song:

And here is Frank Sinatra singing and Billy May orchestrating Moonlight on the Ganges:

Pundette: Gershwin's Foggy Day and They Can't Take That Away From Me (both Pundette and Mark went with Gershwin last week and she had Billy May's orchestrated Baubles, Bangles and Beads at #48 on her list and Mark has it as his song of the century this week) and Pundette had Old Devil Moon at #61

Bob Belvedere: Sinatra's Best 25 through 23 At Long Last Love, That's Life, Angel Eyes, and My Funny Valentine (a Rogers and Hart song like my last week's pick Blue Moon) and Honorable Mentions 6 (which has Roger and Hart's I Didn't Know What Time It Was) and Bob had Old Devil Moon at #93

Mark Steyn: Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Arlen and Gershwin's The Gal That Got Away, Young at Heart and I've Got the World on a String and Mark had East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) at #19

EBL: Blue Moon, The Nearness of You, More Sinatra Summer, Things We Did Last Summer, and Sinatra at the Beach

Don’t forget to also keep checking out

Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,

Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,

Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra, &

Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.

It’s a swingin’ world.

Mark Steyn: Moon Love: Sinatra Song of the Century #78 Sometimes too much freedom can be a constraint, but this is a great song.