Polka Dots and Moonbeams Piano Jazz Ballad | Rega Dauna - Harmonica | Mike del Ferro Trio |

Polka Dots and Moonbeams Piano Jazz Ballad | Rega Dauna - Harmonica | Mike del Ferro Trio |

Recorded live in the Netherlands, the phenomenal Indonesian (24 years old) Harmonica Player Rega Dauna with the Mike del Ferro Trio. Rega is self taught..

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► Behind the Arrangement:
"Polka Dots and Moonbeams" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1940. It was Frank Sinatra's first hit recorded with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The song is one of the top 100 most-frequently recorded jazz standards with arrangements by Gil Evans and others and notable recordings by Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Blue Mitchell,[1] Wes Montgomery, Sarah Vaughan (for the 1957 album Swingin' Easy), Bud Powell, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Lou Donaldson, Dexter Gordon and many others[2] American songwriter and guitarist John Denver also covered the song on his 1976 Spirit album. Bob Dylan covered this song in his 2016 album Fallen Angels.

The song has a notable lyric: the man discovers love at a country dance by accidentally bumping into a woman who has a pug nose. The others at the dance look askance at this, since her nose makes her someone they wouldn't think romantically about. But he has the last laugh: she becomes the love of his life, and he settles down with her.

During the song's first year, a fashion designer even created a "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" fabric print as part of a series of prints inspired by popular music.[

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