Over the years, "Blue Moon" has been covered by many artists, including Frankie Avalon, The Beatles (as studio jam[1]), Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Stevens, Billie Holiday, Al Bowlly, Elvis Presley, Bobby Vinton, Sam Cooke, the Platters, the Mavericks, Dean Martin, Amália Rodrigues, Yvonne De Carlo, The Supremes, Cyndi Lauper, New Edition, Bob Dylan, Chromatics, and Rod Stewart.
Cowboy Junkies interpolated a version of the standard in "Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)", on their sophomore album The Trinity Session.
[2] Cybill Shepherd sang the song on an episode of the TV series Moonlighting,[3] which is featured on the show's soundtrack album.
Rodgers recalled, One of our ideas was to include a scene in which Jean Harlow is shown as an innocent young girl saying — or rather singing — her prayers.
[10] The song, also titled "It's Just That Kind of Play", was cut from the film before release, and registered for copyright as an unpublished work on March 30, 1934.
The cover of Robbins' 1934 sheet music edition credits Ted Fio Rito (vocal by Muzzy Marcellino) as introducing the song, recorded on Brunswick 7315, on October 19, 1934.
It subsequently was featured in at least seven MGM films, including the Marx Brothers' At the Circus (1939) and (as sung by Elvis Presley) Viva Las Vegas (1964).
[9] While most versions of the song begin with the familiar "blue moon," there are two introductory verses in the original Robbins sheet music edition.
Eric Clapton and Rod Stewart sang the first verse in their 2004 version of the song (Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Volume III).
The family story was "that her father had sold the song for $900 to buy a car, or maybe that he had 'settled' with the rich and famous Rodgers and Hart for that amount."
Ted Chapin, the chief creative officer of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, said that he had not heard of Gallese's story and that it seemed "a little far-fetched.
American swing era singer Billy Eckstine did a cover version of "Blue Moon" that reached the Billboard charts in 1949.
[35][36] American jazz singer Mel Tormé did a cover version of "Blue Moon" that reached the Billboard charts in 1949.