Ray Eberle - Moonlight Serenade (audio)

MOONLIGHT SERENADE
Glenn Miller

I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight.
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night.
The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade.

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming.
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and sing you a Moonlight Serenade.

Let us stray till break of day in love's valley of dreams.
Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissing the trees.

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night.
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight,
A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night.
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight,
A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.

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• Glenn
• Miller

[ledyankinamarina]

Thanks a lot:)

[paul72kate]

Ray Eberle made the Glenn Miller Band what it was when it required vocal accompaniment. Ray has to have been the best band singer in history, next to Al Bowlly a decade earlier.

[4205lr]

@duroche53 That was his starting salary in 1938! He was getting a lot more thn that when he left.

[duroche53]

@kingoma61 The widely distributed story is that Miller had had enough of Ray's drinking and tardiness and fired Eberle as he walked through the stage door that night in 1942. I am not vouching for the accuracy of the story. How could I? I was born nine years later. Reports are also that Eberle was on Glenn to pay him more. The band's sidemen were getting $50.00 a week. He was getting $35.00.

[kingoma61]

Ray Eberle sang lead vocals on another Glenn Miller composition from 1939, the ballad "Sometime", which was only performed for radio broadcast. "Sometime" was written by Glenn Miller, Chummy MacGregor, and lyeicist Mitchell Parish, who also wrote the lyrics to "Moonlight Serenade". "Sometime" remains a rare song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. It features an opening melodic riff similar to "Moonlight Serenade". It was performed at the Meadowbrook Ballroom in early 1939 by Glenn Miller.

[Wolfsky9]

This man had such a great voice, it really is so sad that he & GM had such an unfortunate falling out. Does anyone know the story behind why GM " fired" this man at the very height of his vocal power? He had a soothing, effortless sound & " At Last" is an all-time classic. Thank-you Mr Ray Eberle. Wolfsky9

[4205lr]

This arrangement was done by trombonist Hale Rood and recorded in 1957.

[kingoma61]

"Moonlight Serenade" was composed by Glenn Miller and recorded in 1939. The RCA Bluebird 78 single became a monster hit, reaching no. 3 on Billboard. The record was no. 5 on the Billboard year-end tally of the top records of 1930. As a result, Mitchell Parish ("Stardust") added lyrics. One of the earliest recordings of the song with the Parish lyrics was by Count Basie and His Orchestra in 1939. Frank Sinatra, Chicago, Bobby Vinton, and Carly Simon would also record the song.