Pat Suzuki - How High The Moon

Pat Suzuki's slown down version of How High The Moon, recorded around 1953. This version was used in the 1988 movie Biloxi Blues starring Matthew Broderick and Christopher Walken.

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• Pat
• Suzuki
• How
• High
• The
• Moon
• Biloxi
• Blues
• Matthew
• Broderick

[retroflow44]

This was recorded in 1958 (either April 28th or May 1st) , at Webster Hall in NYC. It's on the back of the original RCA LP. Pat Suzuki was still attending San Jose State around 1953 and wasn't recording anything yet.

[marc250268]

@retroflow44

Thanks for the additional info!

[ehalofan]

This was my fiance's and I song. I hummed it to her one night as we slow danced in my pool. It is just a great song and I will forever keep it in my heart. Unfortunately, my fiance died a couple of months after I proposed to her. Thank you for putting up this song. Means the world to me.

[hollywoodcritic100]

Biloxi Blues was on HBO again today. I, like many others here, first heard this haunting rendition played to a hazy sepia toned railroad tressle tracking shot; in a nostalgic coming-of-age film. Thank God that Biloxi Blues has cemented this melancholic rendition in the souls of a new generation. It's almost spooky when you see it against the imagery of the opening credits. And it gives those opening minutes a gravity and importance; slows you down, takes you to that period.

[GadSammit]

THANK YOU, Patricia.

[thegarden65721]

I Love this version and the song is one of my favorites.

[devtimers]

great

[MajorAudieMurphy]

This is my absolute favorite version. Gives you chills. Beautifully done.

[hunterlester]

@ehalofan My goodness. The song was playing just as I read your post and it hurt my heart. Had a good cry.

[beautyinbreakdowns2]

This arrangement is so simple and delicate. Just piano, bass and bongos are so perfectly understated to leave room for her voice. This recording transports you. The way the director used it with vintage train on the bridge and the pull away shot was brilliant. It set up the reprise in the dance hall. Great storytelling.

[beautyinbreakdowns2]

Lush and dreamy...

[poultrykid]

Gloria Gaynor 's cover was a nice disco version in 1976

[TOMATNOSCE]

Great rendition! Blows all the others away! 

[FLPD379USCG]

the darkest night would shine

if you would come to me soon

until you will, how still my heart

how high the moon

how high the moon...