How High the Moon by Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake

Added by Leslie Liszak

Written by: Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton
Language: English
Performed live in: Two for the Show
Stage production
February 8, 1940
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How High the Moon written by Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton English

Title	Performer	Release date	Info
How High the Moon	Frances Comstock & Alfred Drake		First live performance on February 8, 1940
How High the Moon	Benny Goodman and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Helen Forrest	1940	First recording on February 7, 1940
How High the Moon	Stan Kenton and His Orchestra with Vocal by June Christy	June 1948
How High the Moon	Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra	1948
How High the Moon	Ella Fitzgerald	1948
How High the Moon	Anita O'Day with Ralph Burns and His Orchestra	1948
How High the Moon	Thore Swanerud Sextet featuring Bibbi Johnson	October 1949
How High the Moon	Charles Brown and His Band	November 1950
How High the Moon	Spizzwinks(?)	1950	A cappella
How High the Moon	Les Paul and Mary Ford	March 1951
How High the Moon	Crombie Murdoch His Piano and His Orchestra - Vocal Esme Stevens	1951
How High the Moon	Joe Derise	June 1955
How High the Moon	Ivo Robič	1957
How High the Moon	Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio	1958
How High the Moon	Jo Stafford with Paul Weston and His Orchestra	1958
How High the Moon	Pat Suzuki	1958
How High the Moon	Sammy Davis, Jr.	January 1959
How High the Moon	Dakota Staton	1959
How High the Moon	Morgana King, Ernie Wilkins and His Orchestra	1959
How High the Moon	June Christy	1959
How High the Moon	Slim Gaillard	1959
How High the Moon	Johnny Mathis	July 18, 1960
How High the Moon	Kahu Pineaha	1960
How High the Moon	Mel Tormé	1960
How High the Moon	Marvin Gaye	June 1961
Medley: How High the Moon - Old Devil M…	Bing Crosby - Orchestra conducted by Billy May	1961	Medley
How High the Moon	Roy Castle with Wally Stott and His Orchestra	1961
How High the Moon	Edwin Rutten and The Gold Coast Combo	1962
How High the Moon	Kevin Shegog	1963
How High the Moon	The Ray Charles Singers	1965
How High the Moon	Johnny Tillotson	1965
How High the Moon	Chris Montez	June 1966
How High the Moon	Van McCoy	August 1966
How High the Moon	The Questions [AUS]	1966
How High the Moon	Michel Legrand	1974
How High the Moon	Gloria Gaynor	1975
How High the Moon	Derek Smith and Venus	1976
How High the Moon	Teresa Carpio	1976
How High the Moon	Valli Scavelli	1978
How High the Moon	Major Holley	1978
How High the Moon	Dave Pell's Prez Conference featuring Joe Williams	1979
How High the Moon	Polecats	June 1981
How High the Moon	Emmylou Harris	1981
How High the Moon	Janis Siegel	August 1982
How High the Moon	Iris Williams	1982
How High the Moon	The Manhattan Transfer	1984
How High the Moon	Kiri - Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra	1985
How High the Moon	Keely Smith with Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Bill Perkins & Frank Collett	1985
How High the Moon	The Continentals	1986
How High the Moon	Toni Tennille	1987
How High the Moon	Dee Dee Bridgewater	1987
How High the Moon	Annette Sanders	1987
How High the Moon	Dianne Reeves	July 6, 1988
How High the Moon	Big Jay McNeely	1989
How High the Moon (La lune est grise… m…	Abbey Lincoln	1990	Medley
How High the Moon	The Sophisticrats	1990
How High the Moon	Jesper Thilo, Introducing Ann Farholt	1991
How High the Moon	The New Look Trio	1992
How High the Moon	Diane Schuur	1992
How High the Moon	Eileen Farrell	1993
How High the Moon	Charly	March 22, 1994
How High the Moon	Sandra Booker	1994
How High the Moon	Ernie Krivda & Paula Owen	1994
How High the Moon - Ornithology	Karrin Allyson	March 31, 1995
How High the Moon	Sylvia Vrethammar	1995
How High the Moon	Barbara Lea & Keith Ingham	1996
How High the Moon	Ann Hampton Callaway	1996
How High the Moon	Alexia [GR]	1996
How High the Moon	Murray Ross	1997
How High the Moon	Mary Stallings	1997
How High the Moon	Ib Glindemann and His Orchestra with Cæcilie Norby	1997
How High the Moon	Emilie-Claire Barlow	1998
How High the Moon	The Swingcats	1998
How High the Moon	Wesla Whitfield	1998
How High the Moon	Maybebop	1999
How High the Moon	Dawn Chubai	1999
How High the Moon	Audubon Jazz Explosion	1999
How High the Moon	Kaoruko	2000
How High the Moon	Teodora Enache	2000
How High the Moon	Claudia Schmidt with The Jumpboys	2001
How High the Moon	Cecilia Dale	2001
How High the Moon	Katarzyna Stępniowska	2001
How High the Moon	Riders in the Sky	February 19, 2002
How High the Moon	Noel Freidline Quintet	February 19, 2002
How High the Moon	Patti Austin	May 21, 2002	Editor's cover song pick
How High the Moon	Janine Alondres	2002
How High the Moon	Chris Connor	2002
How High the Moon	Holly Shelton & The Backroom Boys	March 18, 2003
How High the Moon	Judy Niemack	September 17, 2003
How High the Moon	The Marc Toussaint Combo	2003
How High the Moon	Cheryl Bentyne	2003
How High the Moon	Suzanne Brooks	2003
How High the Moon	Jean Frye Sidwell	2003
How High the Moon	Janet Metzger	July 14, 2004
How High the Moon	Dany Doriz & Sweet System	2004
How High the Moon	Cris Barber	2004
How High the Moon	Gerard Joling	2004
How High the Moon	Amy Banks	2004
How High the Moon	Lady Kim	February 2005
How High the Moon	Tedi Marsh	2005
How High the Moon	Pete Jacobs' Wartime Radio Revue	2005
How High the Moon	PJ Parker	2006
How High the Moon	Steve Abbruzzi	2006
How High the Moon	Gemma Abrié Swingtet	September 21, 2007
How High the Moon	Charito	September 2007
How High the Moon - Ornithology	Ginger & Scott	December 21, 2007
How High the Moon	Kerem Görsev & Allan Harris	2007
How High the Moon	Natalie Gauci	2007
How High the Moon	Kristine Mills	2007
How High the Moon	Bobo Moreno & The Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band	2007
How High the Moon	Pascal Bokar	2007
How High the Moon	Ray Brown Jr. with Ella Fitzgerald & Ray Brown	September 2008
Jazz: Introducing "How High the Moon"	akiko	October 22, 2008
How High the Moon	Dana Lauren featuring Arturo Sandoval	2008
How High the Moon	Ruby Ruby Ruby	March 2009
How High the Moon	Dolores Duran	2009	Released more than 10 years after its recording Scatted version
How High the Moon	Erin Shields	2009
How High the Moon	Nancy Coletti	2009
How High the Moon	Jeff Beck featuring Imelda May	February 22, 2011
How High the Moon	Ike Moriz	April 2011
How High the Moon	Sarah Maisel	2012
How High the Moon	Sue Moreno - Chris Casello	2012
How High the Moon	Beth Duncan	2012
How High the Moon	Aili Ikonen	April 2013
How High the Moon	Blue Champagne	October 19, 2013
How High the Moon	Dee Daniels - Eric Alexander, Cyrus Chestnut, Paul Beaudry, Alvester Garnett	2013
How High the Moon	Sofie	November 7, 2014
How High the Moon	Joan Chamorro & Rita Payés	November 24, 2014
How High the Moon	The Quebe Sisters Band	2014
How High the Moon	Michele Hendricks	2015
How High the Moon	Julian Yeo	May 2016
How High the Moon	Ron Carter Quartet & Vitoria Maldonado with Ruria Duprat's Brasilian Orchestra	September 9, 2016
How High the Moon	Lola Albright	May 10, 2017
How High the Moon	Sweet System	2017
How High the Moon	Matt Alber	April 1, 2018
How High the Moon	Ida Landsberg	2018
How High the Moon	Shizuka Kudo	June 12, 2019
Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald	Voctave	July 2019	A cappella Medley
How High the Moon	Massimo Faraò Trio - Giulia Lorvich	August 2019
How High the Moon	Leticia Walker	September 2, 2019
How High the Moon	Sugarpie and The Candymen	2019
How High the Moon	Linda Lavin	March 27, 2020

How High the Moon written by Morgan Lewis instrumental

	Title	Performer	Release date	Info
i	How High the Moon	The Orchestra featuring Eddie Heywood, Ray Nance, Don Byas, Aaron Sachs, John Simmons, Shelly Manne	1944
i	How High the Moon	Al Casey and His Sextet	November 1945
i	How High the Moon	Mary Lou Williams	May 1946
i	How High the Moon	Charlie Ventura and His New Orchestra	November 30, 1946
i	How High the Moon	Don Byas Quintette	1946
i	How High the Moon	Django Reinhardt & le Quintette du Hot Club de France avec Stephane Grappelly	1947
i	How High the Moon	Gene Krupa and His Orchestra	November 1948
i	How High the Moon	King Cole Trio	1949
i	How High the Moon	Toots Thielemans' Quartet	June 1950
i	How High the Moon	Andre Previn	March 1952
i	How High the Moon	George Shearing Quintet	1952
i	How High the Moon	Paul Weston and His Orchestra	November 2, 1953
i	How High the Moon	Frankie Froba	1953
i	How High the Moon	Jackie Gleason	1954
i	How High the Moon	Dave Brubeck	1954
i	How High the Moon	Billy Taylor Trio	March 1955	Live
i	How High the Moon	Charlie Ventura	1955
i	How High the Moon	Bonnemere	1955
i	How High the Moon	Jack Kelly [1]	1955
i	How High the Moon	Bud Powell	1955
i	How High the Moon	Don Shirley	1955
i	How High the Moon	Ray Anthony	November 1956
i	How High the Moon	Sid Bass and His Orchestra	1956
i	How High the Moon	The Oscar Peterson Trio	1956	Live
i	How High the Moon	Tony Mottola and His All-Stars	1956
i	How High the Moon	"Sonny Criss" and Modern Jazz	1956
i	How High the Moon	Tommy Whittle & His Orchestra	1956
i	How High the Moon	Stan Getz	1956	Unverified
i	How High the Moon	Jimmy Knepper	October 1957
i	How High the Moon	Louis Prima, Keely Smith with Sam Butera and The Witnesses	November 1957	Live
i	How High the Moon	The Big Four [JP]	1957
i	How High the Moon	Johnny Douglas and His Orchestra	1957
i	How High the Moon	Aloysio de Oliveira e Seu Bando da Lua	1957
i	How High the Moon	Jimmy Smith [US]	1957
i	How High the Moon	The Pete Terrace Quintet, Arrangements by Joe Loco	1957
i	How High the Moon	Bill McGuffie	1957
i	How High the Moon	Randy Weston	1957
i	How High the Moon	Stanley Black, His Piano and Orchestra	1957
i	How High the Moon	Charlie Parker	1957
i	How High the Moon	The Big Ben Banjo Band	1957
i	How High the Moon	Tyree Glenn	1957
i	How High the Moon	The Bay Big Band	1958
i	How High the Moon	Raymond Scott	1958
i	How High the Moon	Ferrante and Teicher	1958
i	How High the Moon	The Arthur Lyman Group	1958
i	How High the Moon	Chet Baker	May 1959
i	How High the Moon	Sonny Rollins	June 1959
i	How High the Moon	Les Brown and His Band of Renown	1959
i	How High the Moon	Nelson Williams	1959
i	How High the Moon	Johnny Dankworth and His Orchestra	1959
i	How High the Moon	Larry Adler Quartet	1959
i	How High the Moon	Dorothy Donegan	1959
i	How High the Moon	Enoch Light and The Light Brigade	1959
i	How High the Moon	Marty Gold and His Orchestra	August 1960
i	How High the Moon	Los Admiradores	October 1960
i	How High the Moon	The Buddy DeFranco / Tommy Gumina Quartet	November 1960
i	How High the Moon	Mike Falcão, Seu Orgão e Ritmo	1960
i	How High the Moon	Mary Osborne	1960
i	How High the Moon	Roger King Mozian	1960
i	How High the Moon	Sonny Stitt	1960
i	How High the Moon	The Modern Jazz Quartet	1960
i	How High the Moon	Leo Diamond and His Orchestra	1960
i	How High the Moon	Arne Domnérus orkester	1960
i	How High the Moon	Les McCann, Ltd.	1960
i	How High the Moon	Herbie Fields' Sextet ‎	1960
i	Jak vysoko je měsíc	Miroslav Kefurt se svou skupinou	1960
i	How High the Moon	Calvin Jackson and His Orchestra	September 1961
i	How High the Moon	The Medieval Jazz Quartet	1961
i	How High the Moon	The Percy Faith Strings	1962
i	How High the Moon	Bobby Christian & His Orchestra	1962
i	How High the Moon	The Villanovans	March 26, 1963
i	How High the Moon	Floyd Cramer	July 1963
i	How High the Moon	Chuck Berry	August 1963
i	How High the Moon	Juarez	1963
i	How High the Moon	Tito Rodriguez and His Orchestra	1963	Live
i	How High the Moon	Lionel Hampton and Charlie Teagarden	1963
i	How High the Moon	Lou Levy Trio	1963
i	How High the Moon	Romano Mussolini and His Orchestra	1964
i	How High the Moon	Earl Grant	1965
i	How High the Moon	Cal Tjader	1965
i	How High the Moon	The Surrey Brass	1966
i	How High the Moon	Helmut Zacharias	1966
i	How High the Moon	Benny Golson	1966
i	How High the Moon	The T-Bones	1966
i	How High the Moon	Roy Budd	1968
i	How High the Moon	Woody Martens	1968
i	How High the Moon	Illinois Jacquet	1968
i	How High the Moon	Jaki Byard	1968
i	How High the Moon	André Brasseur	1969
i	How High the Moon	Bill Coleman + Four	1969
i	How High the Moon	Monk Montgomery	1969
i	How High the Moon	Chet Atkins	1970
i	How High the Moon	Eric Winstone and His Orchestra	1972
i	How High the Moon	Erroll Garner	1972
i	How High the Moon	Barney Kessel, Stephane Grapelli	1972
i	How High the Moon	Joe Pass	November 1973
i	How High the Moon	George Saxon	1973
i	How High the Moon	Johnny Meyer	1973
i	How High the Moon	Groove Holmes/Jimmy McGriff	1973
i	How High the Moon	Häns'che Weiss Quintett	1973
i	How High the Moon	Art Pepper, Hampton Hawes, Joe Mondragon, Larry Bunker	1975
i	How High the Moon	Melomani	1975
i	How High the Moon	Pim Jacobs / Rogier van Otterloo	1975
i	How High the Moon	Claude Williams Quintet	1976
i	How High the Moon	Johnny Guarnieri	1976
i	How High the Moon	Milt Hinton	1976
i	How High the Moon	Ingmar Nordströms	1976
i	How High the Moon	Niels Jørgen Steen's Beatkapel	1976
i	How High the Moon	Lionel Hampton With Milt Buckner and the All Stars	1977
i	How High the Moon	Arne Domnérus - Bengt Hallberg - Lars Erstrand - Georg Riedel - Egil Johansen	1977
i	How High the Moon	Sören Rydgren	1977
i	How High the Moon	Hidehiko Matsumoto Quartette	1978
i	How High the Moon	Dave McKenna	1978
i	How High the Moon	Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton, Mary Lou Williams	1978
i	How High the Moon	Alvino Rey and His Orchestra	1978
i	How High the Moon	Whispering Band	1978
i	How High the Moon	Flashback Quartet, Guest: Dany Doriz, Vibes	1979
i	How High the Moon	Alan Munde	April 1980
i	How High the Moon	George Fleury	1980
i	How High the Moon	Scott Hamilton	1980
i	How High the Moon	Bengt Hallberg	1981
i	How High the Moon	Bireli Lagrene Ensemble	1981
i	How High the Moon	Rich Szabo	1981
i	How High the Moon	Marc Hemmeler Trio	1982
i	How High the Moon	Tommy Flanagan Trio	1982
i	Satellite / How High the Moon	Denny Zeitlin / Charlie Haden	April 1983
i	How High the Moon	Carl Kress and George Barnes	1983
i	How High the Moon	Don Redman and His Orchestra	1983
i	How High the Moon	Warne Marsh Quartet, featuring Lou Levy	1983
i	How High the Moon	The Sal Salvador Quartet	1984
i	How High the Moon	Steve Kuhn	1984
i	How High the Moon	Milt Hinton and Another Generation of Swing	1984
i	How High the Moon	Milt Jackson and His Gold Medal Winners	1985
i	How High the Moon	Butch Miles	1985
i	How High the Moon	Al Haig, Chet Baker, Sonny Criss, Jack Montrose	1985
i	How High the Moon	Lenny Breau & Brad Terry	1986
i	How High the Moon	Pata Negra	1987
i	How High the Moon	Barbara Dennerlein	1988
i	How High the Moon - Ornithology	"The Bird" Memorial Quintet	1989
i	How High the Moon	Liz Gorrill, Charley Krachy	1990
i	How High the Moon	Stéphane Grappelli / McCoy Tyner	1990
i	How High the Moon	Barry Harris	1990
i	Charlie Parker Medley - How High the Mo…	Bob Dorough / Bill Takas	August 1991
i	How High the Moon	Poul Hindberg Quintet	1991
i	How High the Moon	Ulf Johansson	1991
i	How High the Moon	Lee Konitz & Enrico Pieranunzi ‎	1991
i	How High the Moon / Ornithology	Rein DeGraaff Trio, Teddy Edwards, Buck Hill, Von Freeman	1992
i	How High the Moon	Baker-Baldwin Radiogram Washboards	1992
i	How High the Moon	The Benny Carter Big Band	1992
i	How High the Moon - Ornithology	Ed Polcer and His Jazz All-Stars	1993
i	How High the Moon	Andreas Pettersson Trio & Putte Wickman	1993
i	How High the Moon	Miles Davis/Stan Getz	1993
i	How High the Moon	Stefan Forssén	1993
i	How High the Moon	Krister Andersson	1993
i	Ornithology - How High the Moon	Biréli Lagrène	1993
i	How High the Moon	Phil Woods	October 1994
i	How High the Moon	The Ballroom Band	1995
i	How High the Moon	Ben Webster / Buck Clayton	1995
i	How High the Moon	Rein De Graaff	1995
i	How High the Moon	The Paul Brown Quartet ‎	1996
i	How High the Moon	Benny Carter & Phil Woods	1996
i	How High the Moon	George Van Eps & Howard Alden	1996
i	How High the Moon	Connie Crothers	1996
i	How High the Moon	Ron Holloway	1996
i	How High the Moon	Ray Brown Trio with Joe Lovano	1996
i	How High the Moon	Harmonious Wail	1996
i	How High the Moon	Enrico Rava & Mario Rusca	1997
i	How High the Moon	Lennart Wärmell	1997
i	How High the Moon	Jim Gibson	1998
i	How High the Moon	Julien-François Zbinden	1998
i	Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald : How High t…	Sherrie Maricle and DIVA	1998
i	How High the Moon	Tony Coe and Alan Barnes	1998
i	How High the Moon	Lajos Dudas	1998
i	How High the Moon	Dale Fielder Quartet	December 1999
i	How High the Moon	Paul Stark Trio	1999
i	How High the Moon	Irio De Paula Trio	1999
i	How High is the Moon	Jackie King	1999
i	How High the Moon	Boston Brass	March 14, 2000
i	How High the Moon/Ornithology	Lynn Seaton	September 2000
i	How High the Moon	Ethan Iverson, Bill McHenry, Reid Anderson, Jeff Williams	2000
i	How High the Moon	3 na Bossa	2000
i	How High the Moon	Lars Erstrand Four	2000
i	How High the Moon	Romane / Stochelo Rosenberg	2000
i	How High the Moon	Pete Krebs and The Kung Pao Chickens	May 8, 2001
i	How High the Moon	Schlüter / Nabatov / Antolini	October 2001
i	How High the Moon	Urban Renewal	2001
i	How High the Moon	Ran Blake Trio	2001
i	How High the Moon	Martin Taylor	2001
i	How High the Moon - Ornithology	Ladies Only	2001	Medley
i	How High the Moon	Brian Lemon Trio	2001
i	How High the Moon	New York Trio	2002
i	How High the Moon	The Glendon Smith Quintet	March 4, 2003
i	How High the Moon	Fapy Lafertin Quintet & Tim Kliphouse	2003
i	How High the Moon	Franco D'Andrea - Francesco Cafiso	2003
i	How High the Moon	Franco D'Andrea Trio	2003
i	How High the Moon	Michael & Nello Masci	2004	Live
i	How High the Moon	Bill Howland	2005
i	How High the Moon	Bill Cunliffe	2005
i	How High the Moon	Wawau Adler	2006
i	How High the Moon	Charles Bridge Swing Band	2006
i	How High the Moon	Big Band Gymnasium Berenbostel	2006
i	How High the Moon	Jay Hoggard	2007
i	How High the Moon	Rob Koral	March 24, 2008
i	How High the Moon	Rosenberg Trio & Tim Kliphuis	2008
i	How High the Moon	Ari Ambrose, Stephen Riley, Jay Anderson, Matt Wilson	November 2009
i	How High the Moon	Elmhurst College Jazz Band	2009
i	How High the Moon	Tommy Emmanuel & Frank Vignola	2009
i	Mysterious Moon - Misterioso / How High…	Bruce Williamson	August 2010
i	How High the Moon	Adrien Moignard	2010
i	How High the Moon	Don Stiernberg with Rusty Holloway and Jeff Jenkins	2010
i	How High the Moon	Carol Jarvis	2010
i	How High the Moon	New York Standards Quartet	May 2011
i	How High the Moon	Bugge Wesseltoft	December 2011
i	How High the Moon	Thomas Baggerman Trio	2011
i	How High the Moon	Midiri Brothers Septet	2011
i	How High the Moon	Beegie Adair Trio	2012
i	A Swingphonic Collection - April in Par…	SWR Big Band - Dresden Philharmonic conducted by Wayne Marshall	2012
i	How High the Moon	Mike Krstić Trio featuring Peter Erskine	2012
i	How High the Moon	Joe Manis	August 2013
i	How High the Moon	Steve Yarrington	September 2013
i	How High the Moon	Randy Weston - Billy Harper	November 2013
i	How High the Moon	Octokats	March 2014
i	How High the Moon	Pete Kennedy	2014
i	How High the Moon	Sean Jones Quartet	2014
i	How High the Moon	Ryan Truesdell	2015
i	How High Is the Moon	José Feliciano & Harri Stojka	December 2, 2016
i	How High the Moon	Simon Mulligan	December 14, 2018
i	How High the Moon	Ronnie Cuber	November 2019
i	How High the Moon	Èlia Bastida & Joan Chamorro Quartet	December 6, 2019
i	How High the Moon	Joan Chamorro New Quartet & Scott Hamilton featuring Èlia, Alba & Carla	July 17, 2020

Vysoko je měsíc written by Zdeněk Borovec Czech

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Vysoko je měsíc	Eva Pilarová	1994

'n Egoïst written by Gerrit den Braber Dutch

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		'n Egoïst	Rob de Nijs met The Lords, koor en orkest o.l.v. Jack Bulterman	1964	First release

Expo 58 written by Amaryllis Temmerman Dutch

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		Expo 58	Amaryllis Temmerman	January 15, 2007	First release

La lune est grise mon cœur aussi written by Jacques Larue French

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
		How High the Moon (La lune est grise… m…	Abbey Lincoln	1990	First release Medley

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