The song of the day for Saturday, June 28, 2025, is “Fly Me To The Moon.”
About Today
In Spring 1994, Tony Bennett appeared on MTV Unplugged. The recording of Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged was released 31 years ago on June 28, 1994. The album won two Grammy Awards: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and the highly coveted Album Of The Year.
About This Song
“Fly Me To The Moon” was written in 1954 by Bart Howard. The song was originally titled “In Other Words,” but the song was not doing that well, in spite of several recordings. In 1962, Howard renamed the song to “Fly Me To The Moon,” and the song began to catch on. Tony Bennett’s 1965 recording for If I Ruled The World was a big hit for Bennett. There have been many recordings of the song, including those by Frank Sinatra, Kaye Ballard, and many more. However, Bart Howard told Bennett that his 1965 recording was “the definitive performance of this song.”
About This Version
Tony Bennett recorded “Fly Me To The Moon” on April 12, 1994, for broadcast on MTV. The album of the concert, Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged, was released a few months later.
Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged won two 1994 Grammy Awards: Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and Album Of The Year/
“Fly Me To The Moon,” as well as Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged, is available on Apple Music.
We have the video of Tony Bennett’s “Fly Me To The Moon” from the MTV broadcast.
And here is Tony Bennett singing “Fly Me To The Moon” at his last concert, with Lady Gaga, at Radio City Music Hall in 2001.
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