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 milkman came in the moonlight and the moonlight
Was less than moonlight. Nothing exists by itself.
The moonlight seemed to.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)