Shirley Bassey - (In Other Words) Fly Me To The Moon (1963 Recording)

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Shirley Bassey

1963 - Shirley Bassey recorded and release this song on an 1963 Extended Play album titled, 'In Other Words'. This is a beautiful song written by Bart Howard, and it has been recorded by many artists over the decades. Shirley's beautiful recording is right up there with the best of them

ABOUT This song:
"Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon. In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song". In 1954, when he began to write the song that became "Fly Me to the Moon", Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years. He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind. In response to a publisher's request for a simpler song, Bart Howard wrote a cabaret ballad which he titled "In Other Words". A publisher tried to make him change some words from "fly me to the Moon" to "take me to the Moon," but Howard refused. Many years later Howard commented that "... it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes.

LYRICS:
Poets often use many words
To say a simple thing
It takes thought and time and rhyme
To make a poem sing

With music and words I've been playing
For you I have written a song
To be sure that you know what I'm saying
I'll translate as I'll go along

Fly me to the moon
And let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words
Hold my hand
In other words
Darling kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words
Please be true
In other words
I love you

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words
Please be true

In other words
I love you

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