Sharky's Machine - Blue Moon (Indie Rock version)

Описание: From '' Let's Be Friends! ''
Label: Shimmy Disc – Shimmy-000004
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Black And White Labels
Country: US
Released: 1987

Tracklist
A1 Collide Collide
A2 Chevy Van Blues
A3 Lover
A4 Red Goose Shoes
Drums – David Licht
Rhythm Guitar – Mike Edison
A5 Lock And Dam
A6 Route Killdozer (Kldzr Hwy)
A7 Stray Cat Blues
Arranged By – Nanker Phelge
B1 Road Hawg
Horns – Gary Windo
B2 The Postscientific Strut
B3 Blue Moon
Arranged By – Sharky's Machine
B4 Lear Jet Song
B5 Mando The Midget
B6 Big Boss Man
B7 Motor City Madhouse
Arranged By – Sharky's Machine
Lyrics By [Additional Lyrics By] – Aleister Crowley, Sharky's Machine

Songwriter [All Songs By] – Al Smith (track: B6), Andrew Lloyd Webber (track: B7), Jagger-Richards (track: A7), Luther Dixon (track: B6), Rodgers & Hart (track: B3), Sharky's Machine (tracks: A1 to B2, B4, B5), Ted Nugent (track: B7)

Vocals – Jim Schuermann
Guitar – Alec Dale
Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Vibraslap – Mike Edison
Bass – Tonia Ostrow

Engineer – Kramer
Lyrics By – Jim Schuermann

Photography By [Back Cover Photo] – Tina Paul
Cover [Front Cover] – Mike Clelland

Producer – Kramer

Notes
Produced And Engineered By Kramer At Noise New York 1987.


🎵 [SONG INFO]

"Blue Moon" is a classic popular song.
It was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934.

Cover versions

Mel Tormé did a cover version of "Blue Moon" that reached the Billboard charts in 1949. It was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 15428.

"Blue Moon"'s first crossover recording to rock and roll came from Elvis Presley in 1956. His cover version of the song was included on his self-titled debut album Elvis Presley.

In Jim Jarmusch's 1989 film "Mystery Train", the three distinct stories that make up the narrative are linked by a portion of Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Moon" (as heard on a radio broadcast) and a subsequent offscreen gunshot, which are heard once during each story, revealing that the three stories occur simultaneously in real time.

The Marcels, a doo-wop group, also recorded the track for their album Blue Moon (1961)

Other recordings

1935
Connee Boswell
Belle Baker
Greta Keller
Django Reinhardt
1939
Harpo Marx played an interpretation of the song in a medley for the Marx Brothers film, At the Circus.
1943
Charlie and his Orchestra
1945
Vaughn Monroe
1950
Billie Holiday
1952
Jo Stafford (this version is also heard in the film A Single Man)
Eri Chiemi
1954
Dizzy Gillespie
1955
Louis Armstrong
1958
Julie London
1960
Sam Cooke (one of 3 different versions used in the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London)
1961
Frank Sinatra
The Ventures
1963
A version of Blue Moon is heard in Fellini's 8½.
Bobby Vinton (one of 3 different versions used in the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London)
1964
Dean Martin
1965
Amália Rodrigues, in Fado style
1967
The Supremes
1970
Bob Dylan
1971
Lee Perry's Upsetters
Sha Na Na
1973
Tony Bennett, with Ella Fitzgerald
1974
Showaddywaddy
Mud
1975
Gene Summers
1978
Grease movie, an arrangement by Jeff Funk was used in the film Grease.
1979
Cornell Campbell
1983
César Camargo Mariano
Vazelina Bilopphøggers, a Norwegian band, (1983) as Blå lys (literally: Blue light(s)
1984
Elkie Brooks
1986
New Edition, for their doo-wop covers album Under the Blue Moon
1988
Cowboy Junkies, a Canadian band, on their 1988 album The Trinity Session. Their version combined the song into a medley with an original song written by the band called "Song for Elvis".
1990
Mark Isham (with vocals by Tanita Tikaram)
1991
Daniel Ash (As an intro to his first solo album after leaving the bands Love and Rockets and Bauhaus)
Ivan Lins
1994
Chris Isaak
1995
Tommy Emmanuel (without vocals)
The Mavericks, this version featured on the soundtrack to the film Apollo 13
1996
Less Than Jake on their 1996 EP, Greased, featuring covers of songs from the musical Grease
Tori Amos has performed the song at several concerts.
1997
Da Vinci's Notebook, Virginia a cappella band (1997, on their first album, as an a cappella song)
The Huntingtons did an instrumental version on their 1997 CD single, The Only One
MxPx on an early Vagrant Records compilation and as a B-side of the "Chick Magnet" single
1998
Course of Empire
2002
Komety, Polish psychobilly band
Samantha Mumba
John Alford
2004
Rod Stewart featuring Eric Clapton - "Stardust: The Great American Songbook Volume III"
2005
My Morning Jacket for "Louisville is for Lovers, Vol. 5"
2006
Orange and Lemons, OPM band. This version served as the theme song of the movie of the same name.
Ann Hampton Callaway
2007
Atlas Sound
Helmut Lotti
Joe Robinson, a 19 year old Australian virtuoso guitarist

Ondřej Havelka
Frankie Laine & Michel Legrand
Pedro Vargas (in a Spanish translation as Luna Azul)
Overboard
Nat King Cole

Frank Sinatra's recording of Blue Moon was also featured in the first teaser trailer for Fallout: New Vegas.

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