SHINE ON HARVEST MOON
Created on 09/11/2005Latest update on 16/04/2024
Artist: Harry MacDonough & Miss Walton
Author: Jack Norworth/Nora Bayes-Norworth
Label: Victor
Year: 1909
N°1 US. Introduced one year earlier by vaudeville couple Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 (see footnote). They cut it for Victor in 1910 but that version was never released. With Albert Von Tilzer, Jack cowrote Take Me Out To The Ball Game (see there), his wife Nora popularized it in her act. In her revue, young George Gershwin made his first appearance as pianist. In 1917 her version of George M. Cohen's Over There became the biggest war hit.
Covers:
- 1909:
Ada Jones & Billy Murray [n°1 US]
- 1909:
Henry Burr & Frank Stanley [n°2 US]
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- 1931:
- 1933:
Ruth Etting [in film Along Came Ruth]
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- 1939:
Louis Prima [in film Rose Of Washington Square]
- 1939:
Oliver Hardy [in film The Flying Deuces]
- 1943:
- 1944:
Dennis Morgan [in film of the same name, portraiting both authors' lives]
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- 1956:
Carmen Cavallaro [in The Eddy Duchin Story]
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Shine On Harvest Moon was the first hit generated by the Ziegfeld Follies (since 1907). Until then a Broadway revue combined sentiment, extravaganza and burlesque. Florence Ziegfeld Jr. with his Follies added girls on top, not just a few but lines and lines of beauties.
