[78-L] Of Moons and Bad Men

[David Lennick]

Sorry..Pancho, not Pedro. (Thees way we don' offend nobody.)

Rodgers sang the original on a set of demo discs which JJA/Music Masters issued 
in the 70s. Apparently Rodgers sued, and collected a dollar.

dl

On 12/30/2011 4:50 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Okay..in no particular order, it was Prayer, The Bad in Every Man and It's Just
> That Kind Of A Play before it finally became Blue Moon.
>
> Rodgers also recycled a song that didn't make it into Mississippi, called
> something like "Pedro, You Are My Heart"..it became Johnny One Note.
>
> dl
>
> On 12/30/2011 4:44 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> I was watching "Manhattan Melodrama" (1934) with Clark Gable, William
>> Powell and Myrna Loy (and we had a great time... never mind) last night
>> on PBS when in one scene a female nightclub singer did a tune called (I
>> think) "The Bad In Every Man." Only problem is is was actually "Blue
>> Moon" (Blue Moon, you left me standing alone, etc.). The melody line and
>> chord progression were an exact match but the lyrics were entirely
>> different. So, which came first the Bad Man or the Blue Moon?
>> Malcolm
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