[78-L] Of Moons and Bad Men

[David Lennick]

All its incarnations have been recorded on those Painted Smiles lps. I think 
Estelle Parsons did one of them..could be wrong, I haven't looked at those in 
years.

dl

On 12/30/2011 5:00 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Thanks, Kristjan and David.
> I never thought to look on Wiki and didn't know the backstory was so
> convoluted!
> Malcolm
>
> *******
>
> On 12/30/2011 11:48 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Here's the full story:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_%28song%29
>> Kristjan
>> --
>> On 2011-12-30 22:44, 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
>>>