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Frank Sinatra / Count Basie - Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
LYRICS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3n59b13Yw
" Fly Me to the Moon, " originally titled " In Other Words, " is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard . The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard . Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon .
In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song."
Over the next few years, after Kaye Ballard’s 1954 recording, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums , including Chris Connor , Johnny Mathis , Portia Nelson and Nancy Wilson . Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love (under the title "In Other Words") which reached No. 20 in the Cashbox Album Charts.
In 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album Pretty Eyes , then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show . As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon" and, in 1963, Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name-change official.
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing , accompanied by Count Basie . The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones , who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album This Time by Basie , which also included a version of "Fly Me to the Moon." Will Friedwald commented that "Jones boosted the tempo and put it into an even four/four" for Basie's version but "when Sinatra decided to address it with the Basie/Jones combination they recharged it into a straight swinger... [which]...all but explodes with energy." Bart Howard estimated that by the time Frank Sinatra covered the song in 1964, more than 100 other versions had been recorded. - source
#music #jazz #swing #tangled
LYRICS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS3n59b13Yw
" Fly Me to the Moon, " originally titled " In Other Words, " is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard . The first recording of the song was made in 1954 by Kaye Ballard . Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon .
In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song."
Over the next few years, after Kaye Ballard’s 1954 recording, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums , including Chris Connor , Johnny Mathis , Portia Nelson and Nancy Wilson . Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love (under the title "In Other Words") which reached No. 20 in the Cashbox Album Charts.
In 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album Pretty Eyes , then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show . As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon" and, in 1963, Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name-change official.
Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing , accompanied by Count Basie . The music for this album was arranged by Quincy Jones , who had worked with Count Basie a year earlier on the album This Time by Basie , which also included a version of "Fly Me to the Moon." Will Friedwald commented that "Jones boosted the tempo and put it into an even four/four" for Basie's version but "when Sinatra decided to address it with the Basie/Jones combination they recharged it into a straight swinger... [which]...all but explodes with energy." Bart Howard estimated that by the time Frank Sinatra covered the song in 1964, more than 100 other versions had been recorded. - source
#music #jazz #swing #tangled
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