Blue Moon, by Elvis Presley.
Um, I guess it’s “In My Feels”-structure week here at the ol’ songs365 project, but there you have it.
Obviously a cover-of-a-cover, but who wrote Blue Moon, really?
[wikipedia noises]
Oh, it’s Rodgers and Hart, and not controversial, I guess. OK! Seems like they kept trying to use the melody in musicals where it didn’t fit, and oh, just to tie it together with Mystery Train, the Elvis version of this song appears in the Jarmusch movie as a plot device. I hope that’s not a spoiler. I prefer Down By Law, anyway.
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Just one extra guitar and one extra vocal because I am trying to get better at adding fewer things when it makes more sense. The Elvis record is sparse AF, although listening to it now on headphones, there’s a bunch of reverby echoey stuff going on in the vocal, which I imagine was some fun physical analog tape trick, or a characteristic of the actual space. Also it sounds like somebody is playing two coconuts, Holy Grail-style, to make it sound like a cowboy movie.