78 RPM - Harry James - Moonlight Becomes You / I've Heard That Song Before - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Harry James
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	36668
Date:	4 Dec 1942
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	28 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Harry James	Moonlight Becomes You	Burke, Van Heusen	Rate
B	Harry James	I've Heard That Song Before	Styne, Cahn	10.0 Rate

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Harry James And His Orchestra
-- A side from "Road To Morocco" - Vocal chorus by Johnny McAfee
-- B side from "Youth On Parade" - Vocal chorus by Helen Forrest

A mx: HCO 852; recorded Hollywood, CA, July 15, 1942.
B mx: HCO 912; recorded Hollywood, CA, July 31, 1942.

Billboard - #1 Pop (13 weeks - Harry James' biggest hit), #1 R&B (1 week) - I've Heard That Song Before

Billboard, December 5, 1942, page 25: This Week's Records (Released November 27 Thru December 4)

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xiphophilos 23rd Jul 2019		Another example where the record execs didn't foresee a B side's potential. Based on the Billboard listing (page 25), I've switched the track order.



fixbutte 23rd Jul 2019		Although "I've Heard That Song Before" would become Harry James' biggest hit, "Moonlight Becomes You" was apparently the intended "A" side, see its first mentions in Billboard, December 5, 1942, p. 25 (This Week's Records) and 66 (Possibilities) and December 26, 1942, p. 60 (Coming Up). As the song "Moonlight Becomes You" was featured in the film Road To Morocco, starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it seemed natural that the "tune should break very shortly for coin machines". It was, however, Bing Crosby himself who made it a chart hit (#3), despite competing versions of Glenn Miller (for Victor) and Bobby Sherwood (for Capitol) besides James.



BigBadBluesMan 1st Mar 2015



xiphophilos 8th Jan 2014		B Side:



W.B.lbl 2nd Jan 2013		. . . until it was beat out in 1995-96 by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," also on Columbia - for the longest US charted #1 in history (16 weeks - I can imagine both parties, at the time, probably saying "Take that, Harry James!" :- ).



W.B.lbl 5th Dec 2012		This tune also, for some five decades, had the distinction of having the longest run at #1 for Columbia Records . . .