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It's just a good easy song to sing and clap along with and enjoy." But the power and universal appeal of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" helped undo Bill Monroe's career in the late 1950s. In the hands of ...

Decades before The Marcels turned “Blue Moon” into a No. 1 doo-wop hit, the song started out as a popular standard in the 1930s. Originally written by Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and ...

Rensselaer County legal papers in the lawsuit over authorship of the American standard song “Blue Moon” are held at the Rensselaer County Clerk Office in Troy. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz ...