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"Moonglow", also known as "Moonglow and Love" is a 1933 popular song. The music was by Will Hudson and Irving Mills and the words were by Eddie DeLange.
The 1933 piece, "Moonglow", was written by Will Hudson, Irving Mills and Eddie DeLange.The 1955 piece, "Theme from Picnic", was written by George Duning.(Steve Allen set lyrics to the tune, and is credited on vocal versions of the song as a co-author, but not on the hit instrumental versions by Stoloff and others.)
Stoloff worked as musical director at Columbia Pictures from 1936 to 1962. Among space age pop fans, he is best remembered for his 1956 Top 10 hit that paired the swing era tune "Moonglow" with the love theme from the movie Picnic, the medley called "Moonglow and Theme from Picnic"; Moonglow (Hudson, Mills), Picnic (Duning).
Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in CinemaScope. [3] [4] It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. [5]
The most popular versions of the song in 1956 were: An instrumental medleys of the song with "Moonglow". A medley by Morris Stoloff and the Columbia Pictures Orchestra reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1956; Another version of the same medley by George Cates and his Orchestra was also a major hit of that year, reaching the top 5.
"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" from the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing "Love Me Tender" from the 1956 film Love Me Tender "Moonglow" and "Picnic", a medley of the pop standard "Moonglow" and the theme from the 1955 movie Picnic "Never on Sunday" from the 1960 film Never on Sunday "Tammy" from the 1957 film Tammy and the Bachelor
Moonglow (Tatsuro Yamashita album), 1979 "Moonglow", a song from Moonglow/This Bitter Earth by Venetian Snares, 2004 "Moonglow" (song), by Will Hudson and Irving Mills, 1933 "The Theme for Moonglow", a 2008 song by Windsor Airlift, originally by Dolphin Park; The Moonglows, an American R&B and doo-wop group; Moonglow Records, an American record ...
Later in 1959, Chess issued the songs "Unemployment" and "Mama Loocie", which was Gaye's first lead vocal. [3] Most of the time, Fuqua recorded solo numbers and often promoted his and the New Moonglows' songs on TV and in movies. [3] During this time, the group recorded background vocals for the likes of Etta James and Chuck Berry. [6] [7]