Artist: Claude Debussy
Author: Claude Debussy
Year: 1905
Third part of his Suite Bergamasque. Original title of that part: Promenade sentimentale, renamed after a poem by Paul Verlaine, also holding the title of the whole piano suite: Votre âme est un paysage choisi, que vont charmant masques et bergamasques. (uit Clair de lune - 1869).
Covers:
Philadelphia Orchestra [with Leopold Stokowski; animated for Disney film Fantasia but deleted; the same animation was re-used under Disney tone-poem Blue Bayou, sung by the Ken Darby Chorus in '43]
Dimitri Tiomkin [Love Theme (There's Never Been Anyone Else But You) in film Giant with James Dean]
Perry Como [as Moonlight Love; lyrics: Mitchell Parish]
Roger Williams [idem]
Steve Lawrence [as My Claire De Lune]
Philadelphia Orchestra [with Eugene Ormandy; in 2001 in film Ocean's Eleven]
Jay & The Americans [as My Clair De Lune]
Sarah Vaughan [as Moonlight Love]
Styx [intro to Ballerina]
Lana Del Rey [at the end of Freak]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)