Moonlight on the Ganges

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Moonlight on the Ganges is a pop song written by Sherman Myers (music) and Chester Wallace (lyrics) and released in 1926.

background

The Myers-Wallace Fox Trot Moonlight on the Ganges was a hit title for Paul Whiteman in the United States in 1926 (# 2 in December 1926; Victor 21039-B); the exotic-looking arrangement also contained influences from Far Eastern music. The band singer was Austin "Skin" Young, soloist on the Celesta Harry Perrella. The following year Fred Rich (Æolian 713282) was in the US charts with his version of the song.

First recordings and later cover versions

Other musicians who covered the song in 1926/27 included pianists Vincent Lopez , Howard Lutter ( Welte Mignon Y-75203) and Victor Arden , the vocal ensembles The Revelers (Victor 20140), Harlan and Roberts with The Broadway Strollers ( Champion 15145) and the WMCA Broadcasters ( Harmony 282-H), the Irwin Abrams Dance Orchestra with Charles Vaughn (alias Irving Kaufman , Puritan 11478), Duke Yellman and his Orchestra (Edison 51840), Jack Denny, Raymond Dance Orchestra (Regal 8743) , Dick Robertson And His Collegians (Hit of the Week) and Sam Lanin (Okeh, vocals Irving Kaufman). Bassist and band leader Dave Caplan recorded the song for gramophone in Berlin, as did Julian Fuhs and the Jazz Symphony Orchestra ( Bernard Etté ).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 58 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz . a. from 1937 by Glenn Miller / Smith Ballew , Jimmie Lunceford , Benny Goodman (arrangement Eddie Sauter ), Tommy Dorsey (arrangement Bill Finegan ), Charlie Spivak , Teddy Wilson , Tony Parenti , the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra , Frank Froeba , Harry Carney , Art Tatum , Buddy DeFranco , Bob Florence , Ella Fitzgerald , Bucky Pizzarelli / Ray Kennedy , Ran Blake , Max Kaminsky , Allan Vaché and Sarah Vaughan . Moonlight on the Ganges was also featured by easy listening and pop bands and singers such as Russ Carlyle , Axel Stordahl (1960), Frank Sinatra / Billy May ( Swing Along With Me , 1961) and The Chordettes (1961), as well as by the Dixieland folk band The Village Stompers (1964) covered.

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 351442278

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 146
  2. ↑ Original Ampico Piano Roll
  3. ^ QRS Word Piano Roll 3735
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  5. ↑ Columbia 39253; 1951
  6. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of # 1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)