Moonlight Bay

Notable covers

• Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded the song on March 22, 1937, with a special swing arrangement by Miller.
• The song was featured the film Tin Pan Alley, where it was sung by Alice Faye. Faye also included the song in her 1962 album Alice Faye Sings Her Greatest Movie Hits.
• The song, sung in barbershop quartet style, features in the first Daffy Duck cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt.
• Porky Pig repeatedly tries to sing the song in the 1942 cartoon, My Favorite Duck.
• The Mills Brothers recorded the song in 1940 for Decca Records.
• The song was featured in the musical film On Moonlight Bay and gave the film its title; it was sung by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Day also recorded the song commercially, and it appeared on her 1951 album On Moonlight Bay, featuring songs from the film.
• A duet performance by Bing Crosby and Gary Crosby was recorded on March 22, 1951, and reached No. 14 in the Billboard charts in 1951.
• The Beatles performed "Moonlight Bay" with comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise on the duo's ATV programme Two of a Kind in December 1963. A recording of the performance was released on the Beatles' album Anthology 1 in 1995.
• The song was sung in episodes of Hey Arnold.
• In the 1942 film, Ship Ahoy, Tommy Dorsey leads his orchestra while Eleanor Powell does a tap dance conveying a message in Morse code.

  Verses

Chorus

Beatles Version