DORIS DAY - BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILV'RY MOON

BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILV'RY MOON

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITERS: GUS EDWARDS & EDWARD MADDEN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DORIS DAY(DOUBLE)

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS,

GENRE: ROMANTIC SONG

YEAR: 1959/1953

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922–May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two Nº. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

Day was one of the biggest film stars in the 1950s-1960s era. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas(1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane(1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling(1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show(1968–1973).

In 1989, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011 she was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. Also in 2011, she released her 29th studio álbum My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times. 

By the light of the silv'ry moon I want to spoon

To my honey I'll croon love's tune

Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June

Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams

We'll be cuddlin' soon by the silv'ry moon

Place? Park

(Scene dark)

Silv'ry moon is shining through the trees

(Cast: two) Me, you

(Summer kisses floating on the breeze)

Act one (Be done)

Dialog "where wouldja like to spoon?"

(My cue) With you

(Underneath the silv'ry moon)

 (By the light of the silv'ry moon I wanna spoon)

(To my honey I'll croon love's tune)

(Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June)

(Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams)

(We'll be cuddlin' soon by the silv'ry moon)

 (Act two. Scene new)

Roses blooming all around the place

(Cast three) You, me,

Preacher with a solemn-looking face

(Choirs sings, bell rings)

(Preacher: "You are wed forever more")

(Act two all though)

Ev'ry night the same encore

By the light (not the dark but the light) of the silvery moon (not the sun but the moon)

I wanna spoon (not croon but spoon)

To my honey I'll croon love's tune

Honeymoon (honey moon, honey moon), keep a-shinin' in June

Your silv'ry beams will bring love's dreams

We'll be cuddlin' soon by the silvery moon

(The silv'ry moon).