Moonglow by 2heartsAMDG

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Oct 21, 2025 04:23pm

MOONGLOW! THANKS FOR LISTENS SWEET FRIENDS 🩷! "Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_in_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1933</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">popular</a> song and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_standard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz standard</a>. The music was by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hudson_(songwriter)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Will Hudson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Mills" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Irving Mills</a> and the words were by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_DeLange" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eddie DeLange</a>.<h2>Musicological notes</h2>Ignoring the seldom recorded verse, "Moonglow" is a 32-bar tune in the form of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AABA</a>."Moonglow" appears in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">fake books</a> and lead sheets in the key of G, though it is also thought to originally be in the key of C. The melodic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">riff</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-two-bar_form" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A section</a> is composed of a repeated minor third interval followed by a major third interval and then a repeated note. Harmonic movement is largely in an ascending <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_fifths" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">circle of fourths</a>, or with descending chromatic substitutions, but there is also movement between thirds or between major and minor seventh chords. Minor seventh chords are often played in first inversion in this tune, and may therefore be thought of and notated as six chords of the relative major.Rhythmically "Moonglow" is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Simple_time_signatures" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">4</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signature#Simple_time_signatures" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> time</a>. It is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtrot" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">foxtrot</a>, typically played at a slow tempo, although some performers, notably <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Art Tatum</a>, have played it faster. The rhythm is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">syncopated</a>. Jazz players usually <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swung_note" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">swing</a> the eighth notes. Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding "Moonglow", and Hudson explained how the tune came about. "It happened very simply. Back in the early '30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote 'Moonglow'."<h2>Selected discography</h2> "Moonglow" was first recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Venuti" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Venuti</a> in 1933, with subsequent recordings by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Duke Ellington</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cab Calloway</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Benny Goodman</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Waters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ethel Waters</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Art Tatum</a> in 1934. The tune has since become a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_standard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">jazz standard</a>, performed and recorded numerous times by a wide array of musical talents. The Benny Goodman Quartet with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Wilson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Teddy Wilson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Krupa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gene Krupa</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lionel Hampton</a> made a famous version of the song in 1936, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Artie Shaw</a> recorded it in 1941, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry James</a> recorded it in 1946 (released in 1950) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bing Crosby</a> recorded the song in 1956 for use on his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bing_Crosby_Show_(1954%E2%80%931956)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">radio show</a> and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) iOther prominent vocalists who have recorded "Moonglow" include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Christy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">June Christy</a> (1946), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billie Holiday</a> (1952) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Vaughan</a> (1962). A recording by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cates" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Cates</a> and his Orchestra reached number four<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonglow_(song)#cite_note-Whitburn_2011-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coasters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Coasters</a> released a version on their 1960 album, One by One. <h3>Jazz sessionography</h3>As of July 2016, in jazz alone, "Moonglow" is credited for having been recorded 572 times—which includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_recording" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">studio sessions</a>, unreleased <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_mastering" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">masters</a>, live performances, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_disc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">radio transcriptions</a> ... according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Discography" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Jazz Discography</a>, a print and digital resource for jazz recordings. The 572 count does not include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reissue" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">re-releases</a>, which often far outnumber the sessions. <h2>Selected filmography</h2>In the 1950s a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonglow_and_Theme_from_Picnic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">medley</a> of the song and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Duning" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Duning</a>'s "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Theme from </a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Picnic</a>", orchestrated by Johnny Warrington (1911–1978), became quite popular, especially in an instrumental recording by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Stoloff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Morris Stoloff</a>, conductor of the film version by the Columbia Pictures Orchestra. Duning wrote the film's theme to counterpoint "Moonglow". Stoloff's recording spent three weeks at number one on the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Hot 100</a> in 1956, and became a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_recording_sales_certification" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">gold record</a>. It is also featured in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Martin Scorsese</a>'s film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aviator_(2004_film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Aviator</a> (2004), when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> (as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Howard Hughes</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cate Blanchett</a> (as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Hepburn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Katharine Hepburn</a>) fly over Los Angeles at night in one of Hughes' private planes. In a 1961 episode of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Twilight Zone</a> (S3/Ep08, "It's a Good Life"), 6-year-old Anthony Fremont enjoys hearing "Moonglow" played on the piano during a surprise birthday party for an ill-fated neighbor. The evening country club scene in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddyshack" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Caddyshack</a> (1980) opens with the band playing "Moonglow". In the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">42</a> (2013), about Jackie Robinson's advent into baseball's previously white-only major leagues,