George Olsen & His Orch. - The Moon Is Low, 1930

„Motana Moon" (dir. By Malcom St. Clair) was a MGM high budget musical Western movie with Joan Crawford and Joanny Mack Brown. Two hit songs „The Moon Is Low" and „Happy Cowboy" were written by MGM's house composers Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

„The Moon Is Low" was very popular also in Poland as a melancholic slow-fox „Jesienny liść" (The Autumn Leaf) -- the tile having nothing to do with either Montana or the horse movie. It was sung and recorded by Chór Dana (Odeon).

Recording:
George Olsen & His Orch., voc. Fran Frey - The Moon Is Low (from MGM Film „Montana Moon") (Arthur Freed /Nacio Herb Brown), Victor 1930

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Montana
• Moon
• Nacio
• H.Brown
• American
• dance
• band
• Joan
• Crawford
• 78s
• shellac
• nostalgia
• MGM
• Hollywood
• Thirties

[brightphoebus]

love it. Fun to see the movie stills with it.

[shanecincy]

@Mr1920s nope, not a lost film. just got my hands on a copy of it yesterday. cute little film.

[VTMCompany]

on the credenza. (8-30) this recording has unusual acoustics.

[VTMCompany]

@Mr1920s

Thankfully, no...it's not 'lost.'

[mondevco]

can you play flip side please? ... believe it is Montana Call

[maninwhitedress]

a magical turnaround that never ends.

[Mr1920s]

isn't ,,Montana Moon" a lost film??

Thanks for posting!!

[merrihew]

Ormandy came to this country in the early '20's and played for silent films and radio orchestras. Also made some violin records. He got a good agent (Arthur Judson) who arranged for him to fill in for a sick Toscanini which lead to the Minneapolis job in 1931.

[merrihew]

Check my clip: Dorsey Bros. - Was It a Dream

Ormandy is conducting that too! This was before he was famous - he became conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony in 1931.

[merrihew]

Type in: Moon is Low Ormandy

You can see that the label says Stothart but its wrong. I really like this tune.