On Moonlight Bay (song)
"Moonlight Bay" is a popular song, often incorrectly referred to as "On Moonlight Bay".
The music was written by Percy Wenrich, the lyrics by Edward Madden, and was published in 1912. It was often sung in a Barbershop Quartet style, such as by Billy Murray and the American Quartet:
The song was one of a number of early-20th-century songs which were used as titles of musical films made by Doris Day in the late 1940s and early 1950s. See On Moonlight Bay.
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Famous quotes containing the words moonlight and/or bay:
“The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Shedding white rings of tumult, building high
Over the chained bay waters Liberty—
Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes”
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