Marshmallow Moon
1951



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Highlights
  • Written for the 1952 Paramount Pictures film Aaron Slick from Punkin' Crick, starring Dinah Shore, Alan Young and Robert Merrill.
  • A shy farm boy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city where she eventually gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.



Recording History
Martha Davis, Coral, 60631
The Four Knights, Capitol Records, F 1914, 1952
Guy Lombardo, Decca Records, #9 27962, 1952
Original cast, Aaron Slick from Punkin' Crick, RCA Victor, #3006, 1952
Dinah Shore, Dinah Shore Sings Songs from Aaron Slick from Punkin' Crick Soundtrack, Sepia Records Ltd., Sepia 1039, 1952
Lyrics

It’s no fun to sing a hormony song
When you can only sing one part.
You need good friends to join in your song,
Espec’lly one who’s dear to your heart. 

(humming) 

There’s a marshmallow moo-hoo-hoo-hoon
In a velvet sky tonight
And she’ll [he’ll] be there waiting in the moon’s mellow light.
There’s time coming soo-hoo-hoo-hoon
When her {his} arms will hold me tight
And I’ll count the moments ‘til we share this delight. 

I know she [he] must be watching
This same old moon above;
Wish she [he] could join me watching
On this night so right for love! 

There’s a marshmallow moo-hoo-hoo-hoon
In a velvet sky tonight
And soon we’ll be together
In the moon’s mellow light.

(humming) 

There’s a marshmallow moo-hoo-hoo-hoon
In a velvet sky tonight
And soon we’ll be together
In the moon’s mellow light, mellow light.

 
MARSHMALLOW MOON As sung by Dinah Shore in the Paramount Picture Aaron Slick from Punkin’ Crick, Famous Music Corporation, 1951. Music and Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)