page_title: Fly Me to the Moon
section_title: Early recordings
hierarchical_section_title: Fly Me to the Moon / Early recordings
caption_attribution_description: English: Kaye Ballard photographed by Maurice Seymour (New York) late 1950s. Published as a publicity photo with name of MCA talent agency at bottom of picture. Published without copyright notification. MCA ceased to operate as a talent agency in 1962.
context_page_description: "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words", is a song written in 1954 by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first recording of the song the year it was written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was closely associated with the Apollo missions to the Moon.
  In 1999, the Songwriters Hall of Fame honored "Fly Me to the Moon" by inducting it as a "Towering Song".
context_section_description: Kaye Ballard made the song's first commercial recording, released by Decca in April 1954. A brief review published on 8 May 1954 in Billboard said that "In Other Words" was "...a love song sung with feeling by Miss Ballard." This recording was released as the flipside of "Lazy Afternoon", which Kaye Ballard was currently performing as star of the stage show The Golden Apple.
  Over the next few years, jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums, including Chris Connor, Johnny Mathis, Portia Nelson, and Nancy Wilson. Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love, which reached #20 in the Cashbox Album Charts and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
caption: Kaye Ballard circa late 1950s
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