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Moonlight Serenade (Carly Simon album)

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Released
  
July 19, 2005

Length
  
41:42

Moonlight Serenade (2005)
  
Into White (2007)

Release date
  
19 July 2005

Genre
  
Traditional pop music

Recorded
  
2004-2005

Label
  
Columbia

Artist
  
Carly Simon

Producer
  
Richard Perry

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Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Similar
  
Carly Simon albums, Traditional pop music albums

Carly simon all the things you are


Moonlight Serenade is an album by the American singer-songwriter Carly Simon. It is her 22nd studio album (her 29th overall), and her fourth album of pop standards.

Contents

Released on July 19, 2005 by Columbia Records, Moonlight Serenade debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200, selling 58,000 copies in its first week, and remained on the chart for 10 weeks. It was Simon's first US Top 10 album since Boys in the Trees (1978). The album was produced by Richard Perry, with whom Simon had worked with in the 1970s on songs such as "You're So Vain".

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

Carly simon moonlight serenade


Formats and Alternate versions

The album was released in both regular and DualDisc formats, the latter which included an interview with Simon and Perry, as well as behind the scenes footage of the recording sessions and the entire album in surround sound.

  • A special copy of the album was released by Barnes & Noble with a bonus track, "My Foolish Heart".
  • The album was released in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2005. It included "My Foolish Heart" and another track, "Let It Snow".

    • Track listing

    1. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 4:02
    2. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:48
    3. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 4:39
    4. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:32
    5. "In the Still of the Night" (Porter) – 4:26
    6. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 3:06
    7. "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)" – 3:31
    8. "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:31
    9. "My One and Only Love" (Robert Mellin, Guy Wood) – 3:26
    10. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:49
    11. "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:52

    Transatlantic concert

    In September 2005, Simon performed two concerts aboard the RMS Queen Mary 2, on a transatlantic trip from New York City to Southampton. A DVD of the concerts was released as A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2 on November 22, 2005, and an edited version was broadcast on various PBS stations during their December 2005 pledge drives. Simon performed many songs from the album, along with some of her biggest hits.

    Concert tour

    In October 2005, Simon announced her "Serenade Tour" which was to include older hits and songs from Moonlight Serenade. Her children, Sally Taylor and Ben Taylor, joined her on the tour.

    Awards

    48th Annual Grammy Awards

    Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Moonlight Serenade4:02
    2I've Got You Under My Skin3:48
    3I Only Have Eyes for You4:40

    References

    Moonlight Serenade (Carly Simon album) Wikipedia
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