Blue Moon The Marcels Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Blue Moon was originally written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1934 movie, Manhattan Melodrama. The Marcels recorded the song in 1961 at the last minute when they recorded three songs for an album and needed a fourth. When one of the members said he knew "Blue Moon," producer Stu Phillips told him to teach the song to the rest of the group in an hour, then they'd record it. They recorded it in two takes and gave it a doo-wop edge. Richard Rodgers hated the Marcels' doo-wop arrangement of this song so much that he took out advertisements in the music papers urging people not to buy it. In the movie Grease this was used in a scene at the dance where it was interrupted by students "mooning."