Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon

by Arthur Anderson

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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Everybody knows this years homecoming theme is Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra. There was a lot of competition leading up to who will actually sing the song for the dance.

However have you ever stopped to think of where the song came from? Who wrote the song? What made Fly Me to the Moon famous?

Interesting fact, Fly Me to the Moon is one of the first songs ever to be played in space, First by The Apollo 10 mission while orbiting the moon, and again by Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 moon landing mission.

Fly me to the Moon was also originally written by Bart Howard and recorded by Kaye Ballard in 1954 for the movie Once Around. Bart Howard originally named the song In Other Words. The song went through many iterations until Johnny Mathis renamed the song Fly Me to the Moon in the year 1956.

Fly Me to the Moon was first made popular by Joe Harnell in 1962, winning a Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and was the number fourteen song in the United States.

Fly Me to the Moon has been a lot of places, from number fourteen in the United States, to landing on the moon. The song has had a long and significant history.