Artist: Mariners
Author: Meredith Willson
Label: Columbia
Year: 1953
With David Rhodes' orchestra. Popular among GI's in Korea. Comes from an English nursery rhyme I See The Moon (And The Moon Sees Me) with origins far into the 18th century according to The Oxford Dictionary Of Nursery Rhymes.
Covers:
Stargazers [n°1 UK]
Jean Ritchie [as God Bless The Moon]
Greg Brown [or rather his three kids at the end of his Bath Tub Blues cd]
Author Willson also wrote Till There Was You (see there).
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)