On Moonlight Bay (album)
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On Moonlight Bay is a Doris Day
album (released July 2, 1951) featuring songs from the movie of the same name
. It was issued by Columbia Records
as a 10" LP album
, catalog number CL-6186.
The album was combined with Day's 1953
album, By the Light of the Silvery Moon
, on a compact disc, issued on January 30, 2001 by Collectables Records
. Gordon McRae is not featured on the album, as he was a property of Capitol records and wasn't allowed to sing on this Columbia recording. James Emmons, a contract singer handled by Doris Day's husband, was used in his place on two songs..."Cuddle up a Little Closer" and "Till We Meet Again".
†Joint pseudonym for James Kendis, James Brockman
, and Nat Vincent.
Doris Day
Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...
album (released July 2, 1951) featuring songs from the movie of the same name
On Moonlight Bay (film)
On Moonlight Bay is a 1951 musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth which tells the story of the Winfield family at the turn of the century. The movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington. There was a 1953 sequel, By the Light of the Silvery Moon.-Plot:On Moonlight Bay centers on...
. It was issued by Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
as a 10" LP album
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
, catalog number CL-6186.
The album was combined with Day's 1953
1953 in music
-Events:*February 6 – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, already terminally ill with cancer, leaves Covent Garden Opera House on a stretcher after being taken ill on the second night of her run in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice....
album, By the Light of the Silvery Moon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (album)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a Doris Day album featuring songs from the movie of the same name. It was issued by Columbia Records as a 10" long-playing record, catalog number CL-6248....
, on a compact disc, issued on January 30, 2001 by Collectables Records
Collectables Records
Collectables is a reissue record label founded in 1980 by Jerry Greene. Greene was previously associated with New York City's Times Square Record Shop, Philadelphia's Record Museum retail chain, and the Lost Nite and Crimson record labels....
. Gordon McRae is not featured on the album, as he was a property of Capitol records and wasn't allowed to sing on this Columbia recording. James Emmons, a contract singer handled by Doris Day's husband, was used in his place on two songs..."Cuddle up a Little Closer" and "Till We Meet Again".
Track listing
- "On Moonlight BayOn Moonlight Bay (song)"On Moonlight Bay" is a popular song.The music was written by Percy Wenrich, the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1912. It was often sung in a Barbershop Quartet style, such as by Billy Murray and the American Quartet:...
" (Percy WenrichPercy WenrichPercy Wenrich was a United States composer of ragtime and popular music.Born in Joplin, Missouri, he left for Chicago in 1901 and moved on to New York City around 1907 to work as a Tin Pan Alley composer, but his music retains a Missouri folk flavor...
/Edward MaddenEdward MaddenEdward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
) (with the Norman LuboffNorman LuboffNorman Luboff was an American music arranger, music publisher, and choir director.-Early years:Norman Luboff was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1917. He studied piano as a child and participated in his high school chorus. Luboff studied at the University of Chicago and Central College in Chicago...
Choir) - "Till We Meet Again" (Richard A. WhitingRichard A. WhitingRichard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
/Raymond B. EganRaymond B. EganRaymond Blanning Egan was a songwriter. He moved to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan where he attended the University of Michigan. His first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved onto be a staff writer for Ginnells Music Co...
) (duet with James Emmons) - "Love Ya" (Peter DeRosePeter DeRosePeter DeRose was an American Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era.-Biography:DeRose was born in New York City and as a boy exhibited a gift for things musical...
/Charles TobiasCharles Tobias-Biography:Born in New York City, Tobias grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts with brothers Harry Tobias and Henry Tobias, also songwriters.He started his musical career in vaudeville. In 1923, he founded his own music publishing firm and worked on Tin Pan Alley...
) (duet with Jack Smith) - "Christmas Story" (Pauline Walsh)
- "I'm Forever Blowing BubblesI'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" is a popular song which debuted in 1918 and was first published in 1919.-Creation:The music was written by John Kellette. The lyrics are credited to "Jaan Kenbrovin", actually a collective pseudonym for the writers James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent...
" (John Kellette/Jaan Kenbrovin† (duet with Jack Smith and the Norman Luboff Choir) - "Cuddle up a Little Closer" (Karl HoschnaKarl HoschnaKarl Hoschna was a Tin Pan Alley-era composer most noted for his songs "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine", "Every Little Movement" and "Yama Yama Man", and for a string of successful Broadway musicals....
/Otto HarbachOtto HarbachOtto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
) (duet with James Emmons) - "Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)Every Little Movement (Has a Meaning All Its Own)"Every Little Movement " is a popular song. Its music was written by Karl Hoschna and its lyrics by Otto Harbach for their musical Madame Sherry, which opened on Broadway in 1910....
" (Karl Hoschna/Otto Harbach) (with the Norman Luboff Choir) - "Tell Me (Why Nights Are So Lonely)" (J. Will Callahan/Max Kortlander)
†Joint pseudonym for James Kendis, James Brockman
James Brockman
James Brockman was an American songwriter. Born in Russia, he emigrated to New York by himself at the age of 9 or 10...
, and Nat Vincent.