Moon River have covered the song include Rod Stewart in "Fly Me to the Moon... The Great American Songbook Volume V" (2010), which charted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and Barbra Streisand in "The Movie Album" (2003), a Grammy-nominated gold album. Diffuser.fm named these the "Top 5 Alt-Rock" versions of the song: The Killers, Glasvegas, R.E.M., Morrissey and Josh Ritter. Moon River "Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The song
Blue Moon (1934 song) New York. Gallese wrote in a memoir "Blue Moon - In Search of The Song My Father Wrote", that her musician father had sent the words and music to song brokers Mahoney and Associates, but the brokers stopped communicating after a while, and then the song was published as if it had been composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Roman sued for redress in October 1936. Rodgers and Hart were contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in May 1933. They were soon commissioned to write the songs for "Hollywood Party", a film that was to star many of the studio's top artists.