Blue Moon - original version from the movie Manhattan Melodrama

[VG052292]

can u upload the scene from this movie where Clark gable says die the way you lived unedited.

[XxSinghSouljaxX]

Blue grass king of the hill is better

[brianr10]

William Powell. Quite a mensch in his day.

[Onlymusical]

This is so much better than the later "Blue Moon" lyrics that there's just no comparison. This is the same singer who first sang "Thanks for the Memory" with Bob Hope in a movie, introducing that song as well, only she was a blonde in that one but in blackface with this one.

[bayounetta]

nice....old is gold....

[HippoMan3445]

im playin this on piano so thanks for the help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thamesuser]

wow, didn't know this was where one of my favourite all time songs originated

[thamesuser]

wow, didn't know this was where one of my favourite all time songs originated

[trainroomgary]

Well done.......

[MunecitaLinda]

Aw, how lovely. And many thanks for the information. (:

[Glinkaism1]

Good research. Here is an alternate version, as much as I could find. Bobby Short has more lyrics to this version in a "Painted Smiles" record series. I'd dig it out and post them, but hey it's tons of work. :)

Oh Lord, if you ain't busy up there, I ask for help with a prayer. So, please Lord, I must see Garbo in person with Gable when they're rehearsin' and some director is cursin'.

{Part of bridge, here} Please let me open my eyes at seven. And find I'm looking through the Golden Gate.

[angelfireRPh]

i'll trade evrything just to live back at thus era.. people are more polite and decent.. men are more firm and righteous..

[BRowe99]

@angelfireRPh ...and they know how to dress.

[txellenne]

Oh Lord what's the matter with me

I'm just .......... to see the bad in every man

Oh help me lord I could be good to a lover

But then I always discover the bad in every man.

Might somebody write down the this version's lyrics, please???

The

You believed ...

They ..............................­.I love you only

[Jamesmac30]

Thanks - this is interesting - i wonder if would the passage of time would have made any of the previous versions a hit if the "Blue Moon" lyric had not been written?

I think the bad in every man would have made it eventually on to "Only The Lonely" type albums.

[dvdspd21]

Who, in fact, is THIS singer? Someone with a thorough grounding in jazz of the 20's and 30's could, no doubt, answer that question easily. I, unfortunately, am not that person. In the meantime, however, if you'd like to know what the young Shirley Ross, some four years later (in her most famous four minutes, by far), actually looked and sounded like, simply search within YouTube for "thanks for the memory"

[Glinkaism1]

@dvdspd21 Per complete cast list, the singer IS Shirley Ross. :)

[dvdspd21]

@Glinkaism1

So it would seem. It began to look that way weeks after posting my previous comments (the closest primary souce has her hired weeks before the film's release) but I never got back here to eat the requisite crow. My bad. In the meantime, I linked several articles to IMDb's SR page. Re "Blue Moon," go to the page & click on 'Misc. Links." # 22's a 1940 interview touching on her early connection w/ R&H and this song (though, I'm afraid, only as "Prayer" and no mention of the movie).

[dvdspd21]

@Glinkaism1

BTW, there is on Youtube a fascinating transitional Ross perfomance (from 1935) which makes more palatable the transition from MGM's "MM" chanteuse to the streamlined blonde version pushed by Paramount 4 years later. Look for "Two Hearts in Wax Time." Shirl shows up at 1:15, then in earnest at 1:53, launching into a spirited duet of "Love Needs No Inspiration," by Walter Jurmann and Bronislau Kaper. All this & technicolor too, affording a glimpse of SR's natural reddish mane.

[Glinkaism1]

@dvdspd21 Thanks, old bean. Will check out it out! Take a gander at Dorothy Loudon singing "Sur le Quais de Ramsdale, Vermont." Tis a h00t. Cheers!

[dvdspd21]

Don't know where this SR attribution first appeared, but that's clearly not Ross. Not even - as per the late Roy Hemming's failed attempt to reconcile this matronly, 30-to-40-something, inconsistently-in-tune warbler with a slender, very musical, 21-year-old - "wearing dark body makeup and a terrible-looking black wig." With apologies to both the author and subject of that quote, it would've taken more than makeup and a wig (i.e. a De Niro-into-La Motta pig-out regimen) to make that happen.

[theshadow1932]

Hey, Johnny.... were you whistling this tune when Mel and the boys finally caught up with you that night?  Just wondering.

JH

[3investigators]

Great tune in all of it's versions. And here it is sung by Shirley Ross in black face!

[ToiAnJamji]

how do i get this song?

[rgsfield]

No wonder men all wanted a wife like Myrna Loy in the 1930s. What a wonderful Nora Charles she made!

[bluexxg]

best rendition of BLUE MOON is Ramona with Paul Whiteman Orch

[Impowers]

The elegant "The Bad in Every Man" lyrics were so much better and more powerful than the just plain dopey "Bue Moon" lyrics. I think gold was turned into silver and that this version should be frequently recorded and eventually supercede the later inferiorly infantile lyrics.

[Mariaaaa8888]

Thank you so much!! I was looking for it!!!

[prodigyoftheyear]

Love it :)

[fritzmo]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[chinagrrl]

This is real nice! Boy, the lyrics were sure alot different than the current version of the song!

[chkjns]

The saxes in the background 'bombadom ba bombadom' the VERY same sound Ray Conniff used in several of his arrangements around 1960.

Ray alone preserved that Big Band sound after every other arranger had left it behind, yet he made it contemporary at the same time.

That's why Ray Conniff is my number one musical hero ! ! 300 of his recordings are playlisted on my channel.

[bbdupon]

Thanks for the great background work.

[chkjns]

Ditto from me on the song history ! ! I just added this to my 1934 music playlist, thanks to the great history.

I'm creating music playlists for each of the past 100 years - hope people like the idea of just clicking on a year and stepping back into the past for an hour or two.

!950-1977 play over an hour each and I'm working on the others constantly.

[1980phil1912]

Evolution of a classic, good to see silver being turned into gold!

[Filmdude0]

@1980phil1912 nicely put :)