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“Fly Me to the Moon“, has seen 2 major transformations since it was composed in 1954 by Bart Howard. Originally titled “In Other Words” and written as 3/4 ballad, you can hear it in the first recording by Kaye Ballard in 1954, Quincy Jones arranged it in 4/4 for Frank Sinatra’s version with the Count Basie Orchestra.
This recording of “Fly Me to the Moon” became closely associated with NASA‘s Apollo space program. A copy of the song was played on a portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon. The song’s association with Apollo 11 was reprised many years later when Diana Krall sang it at the mission’s 40th anniversary commemoration ceremony, and also for mission commander Neil Armstrong‘s memorial service in 2012.
This song is an AB form of 32 bars with a harmonic progression similar to many other standards (All The Thing You Are, Autumn Leaves etc…).
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5 comments on “Fly Me To The Moon”
The etude and one chorus, see you at the live training session 🙂
Wes Montgomery
I missed the live session; was the time posted anywhere? I seem to be getting a lot of “connection was reset” messages, so perhaps the site is having problems?
Hey Noah, the live class for Pro Members is scheduled for Saturday February 17, 12pm ET, not sure what the connection reset thing is, will mention that to Emiliano the web developer
Hi Noah, Please help me by sending me a message through my profile to help you with this issue