Songs about the moon

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Saturday February 23, 2008 : The Moon

I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon... the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so? - William Gilmore Simms

1. Connie Kaldor - Prarie Moon 421
Small Cafe - Coyote Entertainment
blame it on the moon...

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 'tis mere tinsel: it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay on nature

2. Mae Robertson - I See the Moon 306
Dream - Lullabies and Lovesongs- Lyric Partners
"...and the moon sees me"

3. Moxy Fruvous - You Will Go to the Moon
You Will GO to the Moon - Bottom Line
You;ll look back down at earth and say "how did we ever live that way?"

4. Nat King Cole - Its Only a Paper Moon 253
With a Song in My Heart - Platcd 902

See yonder fire! It is the moon, Slow rising o'er the eastern hill.
    It glimmers on the forest tips, And thought the dewy foliage drips
        In little rivulets of light, And makes the heart in love with night.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,      Christus--The Golden Legend

5. Bill Bourne and Shannon Johnson - Red Moon 324
Dear Madonna - Rynde Records
"The moon rose red this evening, the moon rose red tonight"

6. Nanci Griffith - Once In A Very Blue Moon 240
The Best of - MCA Nashville
..and I feel one coming on soon

7. Cat Stevens - Moonshadow 248
Classics Vol 24 A & M Records 25th Anniversary

8. Kate Rusby - Moon Shadow 423
Girl Who Couldn't Fly - Compass

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
      - John Fitzgerald Kennedy,
        in his Rice University Moon Speech, September 12, 1962

9. Hugh Blumenfeld - Shoot The Moon
Rocket Science - 1 800 Prime CD

It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes, And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests, Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes, And harvest-like fields, its mystic splendor rests.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harvest Moon

10. Mustard's Retreat- harvest moon
Mr7 - MustardsRetreat.com

11. CCR - Bad Moon Rising
Vol 1 20 greatest hits - Fantasy

12. Van Morrison - Dancing in the Moonlight

13. John Fogerty- Blue Moon of Kentucky

That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon, - Percy Bysshe Shelley

14. Rose Vaughan Trio- Man/ Maid Moon 327
Sweet Tarragon - Wild Rose Records

15. Frank Sinatra - Moon River 318 - NY NY - Madacy Records

16. Richard Clayderman - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 313
Piano Passion - St Claire Ent.

17. Christine Lavin - If We Had No Moon - 757
Single for prometheus-music.com/space.html

It is the very error of the moon.
She comes more nearer earth than she was wont And makes men mad.
- William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice

18. The Beatles - Mr. Moonlight 248 - Anthology - Apple/Capitol

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.
- Alfred Noyes

19. Brooks Williams- Winter Moon 305
7 Sisters - Green Linnet Records

The moon looks On many brooks, The brook can see no moon but this. - Thomas Moore,
Irish Melodies--While Gazing on the Moon's Light

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. - Sir William Jones

20. Lui Collins - Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon 459
Baptism of Fire - Green Linnet

Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Connie Kaldor (w/Roy Forbes) - Saskatchewan Moon
Wood River - Coyote

22. Anne Hills (M Smith) - Stranded in the Moonlight 404
October Child - Flying Fish

23. James Keelaghan - Sweetgrass Moon 458
A Recent Future - Green Linnet
lines of force that bind me

24. Carrie Newcomer - Moon Over Tucson 348
My True name - Philo

25. Darcie Deaville - It's Just the Moon 444
Tornado in So Mo - Redwing

26. Richard Shindell - Calling the Moon 500
Somehwere Near paterson - Signature Sounds

27. Chuck Pyle - Affected by the Moon
Affected by the Moon- Bee n Flower Music

28. Steve Chizmadia - New York Moon 400
It is What it Is - stevechizmadia.com

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