By The Light Of The Silvery Moon- Doris Day

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“By The Light of the Silvery Moon”
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Sheet music cover, 1909
Song
Published 1909
Composer(s) Gus Edwards
Lyricist(s) Edward Madden

“By The Light of the Silvery Moon” or “By the Light of the Silv’ry Moon” is a popular song. The music was written by Gus Edwards, and the lyrics by Edward Madden. The song was published in 1909 and first performed on stage by Lillian Lorraine. It was one of a series of moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era.

The song has been used in a great many television shows and motion pictures. A film of the same title was released in 1953, starring Doris Day.

It served as a sequel to On Moonlight Bay, which also starred Doris Day.

The song was originally recorded in C major, but has since been sung in E major (Day) and A major (Jimmy Bowen).


By the Light of the Silvery Moon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon poster.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed by David Butler
Produced by William Jacobs
Written by Booth Tarkington (Penrod stories)
Screenplay by Irving Elinson
Robert O’Brien
Starring Doris Day
Gordon MacRae
Leon Ames
Music by Gus Edwards (By the Light of the Silvery Moon)
Max Steiner (music adapted by)
Cinematography Wilfred M. Cline (as Wilfrid M. Cline)
Edited by Irene Morra
Distributed by Warner Brothers
Release date
  • March 26, 1953
Running time
101 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $2,125,000 (US)

By the Light of the Silvery Moon is a 1953 musical film.It is the sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Like its predecessor, the movie is based loosely on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon relates the further adventures of the Winfield family in small town Indiana as daughter Marjorie Winfield’s (Doris Day) boyfriend, William Sherman (Gordon MacRae), returns from the Army after World War I. Bill and Marjorie’s on-again, off-again romance provides the backdrop for other family crises, caused mainly by son Wesley’s (Billy Gray) wild imagination.

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