Artist: Casa Loma Orchestra with Glen Gray
Author: Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart
Label: Decca
Year: 1934

Vocal: Kenny Sargent. The melody was first supposed to be introduced in the Hollywood Revue Of 1933 (by sex godess Jean Harlow as The Prayer). With slightly different lyrics Shirley Ross sang it as The Bad In Every Man in the famous gangster film Manhattan Melodrama ('34). Actors William Powell and Myrna Loy talked through much of the song, so Hart made a third and final attempt with again different lyrics when Blue Moon finally shone. Manhattan Melodrama wasn't so much famous for holding an older version of Blue Moon, but for being the film John Dillinger went to see in the Chicago theatre where he was gunned down by police bullets at the exit.

One of the songs Presley came up with for his second Sun session. Ballads was what he liked the most, where he could best express emotions, intriguing Sam Phillips, cause these emotions kept sentimentality at bay ("I don't sound like nobody"). Up till then all versions sounded sentimental, all these crooners from the forties and thirties seemed to sing about another moon. Presley's moon reflected in the efficient echo of the Sun studio, merely veiled by guitar and bass. All of a sudden Blue Moon stopped sounding like an airbrushed second-hand wishing card.