Pennies from Heaven is one of my personal favorites and I recently heard Regis Philbin singing the song and thought this would be a great song to explore. Pennies from Heaven was written by Johnny Burke {lyrics} and Arthur Johnson {music}. The song was first introduced in the 1936 film Pennies from Heaven, which introduced Read More
Month: June 2017
Song Story: Swinging on a Star
Swinging on a Star was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film, Going My Way. The pop standard was composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke. The song is said to be inspired by a conversation Bing Crosby had with his children one evening while Jimmy Van Heusen was a guest. Read More
Song Story: Dance by the Light of the Moon
Dance by the Light of the Moon was written and performed by the American doo-wop group, The Olympics. The group released the song in 1960 and it topped the charts at #47. This doesn’t seem to be as well a known song as Fly Me to the Moon, Moon River, Blue Moon, Moonlight Bay, By Read More
Song Story: Blue Moon
Blue Moon was written by the popular songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934. The duo was contracted in May 1933 by MGM to write songs for an upcoming movie called Hollywood Party. Richard Rodgers later recalled, “One of our ideas was to include a scene in which Jean Harlow is shown as Read More