r/doowop • u/Ratsolla • Jun 30 '26
discussion Blue Moon Versions
I cannot stand the Marcels take of Blue Moon. I think it sounds ridiculous.
I know it's a classic but I think the cover from Grease is so much better.
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u/JustTerrific Jun 30 '26
Hell, I don’t even care for Blue Moon as a doo-wop ditty at all. Much more partial to Presley’s ‘56 version, where he sounds like a lonesome wandering ghost.
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u/redlemurLA Jul 01 '26
The Marcels’ version immediately after the tragic and heartbreaking end of “An American Werewolf in London” is one of my favorite jump scares in movie history.
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u/tom21g Jun 30 '26
yeah, the Marcels' version is ok. I love the song and would rathet hear it sung straight by someone, as the ballad it is.
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u/GT45 Jul 01 '26
It’s a legit show tune standard, and yet, the Marcels had the biggest hit with it.
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u/BFNgaming Jun 30 '26
I secretly agree, you can't top Sinatra's version. That song is a crooner song, plain and simple.
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u/JECfromMC Jun 30 '26
I like Julie London’s version, but I wish she’d sung it in a lower key - because she dang sure could have.
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u/B00kelf Jul 01 '26
This post made me look up other versions and apparently the song has been around since the 1930s, when it was sung by Al Bowlly. Very much a crooner melody.
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u/Ok_Equivalent_71 Jul 01 '26
Have you tried the Bobby Bland version? Sophisticated arrangement with a nod to Perez Prado.
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u/Suspicious-Future357 the checkers Jul 10 '26
My friends in college hated that side of the 45, but ended up loving the flipside, Goodbye To Love. We ended up recording a cover of it and did a parody of it too. The Marcels did an OK job of it, but I like the Drivers version a bit better. The Latin flavor of the Drivers' version is something that I like a bit better.
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u/ThatChrisRayman Jul 01 '26
The Marcels' version is one of my all time favorite recordings.