Living In the Sunlight, Loving In the Moonlight
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"Living In the Sunlight, Loving In the Moonlight" is a song written by Al Sherman and Al Lewis for the 1930 film, The Big Pond starring Maurice Chevalier. The song was also sung by Chevalier who made it famous. Chevalier enjoyed his first American hit with this song. On March 22, 1930 Bing Crosby and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra recorded a popular cover of this song as well.
[edit] Trivia
- Forty years after this song was released, Chevalier came out of retirement to sing the title song from the 1970 Walt Disney animated musical, The Aristocats. That song was written by the Sherman Brothers, who are the sons of Al Sherman.
- Bing Crosby also worked with songwriter Al Sherman's sons on a made for television musical film called, Goldilocks.
- In 1968, Tiny Tim sang a cover of this song. This unusual, ukelele version of the song has been used in recent years on the successful children's TV cartoon series, Spongebob Squarepants and since then has forever been associated with it. The first episode to show the song was the pilot episode, Help Wanted.
- In January 2008, American Idol contestant Sarah Whitaker auditioned with the song.
[edit] Literary Sources
- Sherman, Robert B. Walt's Time: from before to beyond, Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.
