Fly Me to the Moon (Michael Feinstein album)

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Fly Me to the Moon
Fly Me To The Moon Michael Feinstein album cover.png
Studio album by
Released2010
StudioNola Recording Studios, New York, NY
Genre Jazz
Length1:00:51
Label DuckHole
Producer
  • Paul Andre
  • Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein chronology
The Power of Two
(2009)
Fly Me to the Moon
(2010)
Cheek to Cheek: Cook and Feinstein
(2011)

Fly Me to the Moon is an album by Michael Feinstein, featuring guitarist Joe Negri, released in 2010 through DuckHole Records, consisting of covers and jazz standards. [1] The album reached a peak position of number 39 on Billboard 's Jazz Albums chart. [2]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."So in Love" Cole Porter 4:38
2."Meditation" Norman Gimbel, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça 5:46
3."Fly Me to the Moon" Bart Howard 4:42
4."I Wish I Knew" Mack Gordon / Harry Warren 3:43
5."Blame My Absent Minded Heart" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 4:24
6."A Mist Is Over the Moon" Oscar Hammerstein II, Ben Oakland 4:38
7."Serenata" Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish 2:35
8."Why Shouldn't I"Cole Porter5:24
9."One Love in My Life" Murray Grand, Harry Warren4:17
10."This Time the Dream's on Me" Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer 3:11
11."A Man and His Dream" Johnny Burke, James V. Monaco 5:00
12."While My Lady Sleeps" Gus Kahn, Bronislaw Kaper 4:02
13."Lonely Town" Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green 3:48
14."It Could Happen to You"Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen 4:43
Total length:1:00:51

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References

  1. "Michael Feinstein Fly Me to the Moon". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 September 2021.
  2. "Joe Negri Fly Me To The Moon Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-09-01.