Level: 3/4
Tuning: Standard

Shine On Harvest Moon is a popular early-1900s song credited to the married vaudeville team Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. It was one of a series of Moon-related Tin Pan Alley songs of the era. The song was debuted by Bayes and Norworth in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1908 to great acclaim. It became a pop standard, and continues to be performed and recorded even in the 21st century. I heard Mance Lipscomb play an arrangement and decided to transcribe it. Then I started to listen to old recordings from the turn of the last century.

I discovered there was a great opening section, which I slowly arranged. The arrangement that evolved has a lot of Mance and a lot from the early recordings and a 1931 recording by Ruth Etting. It is challenging to play but a great song to perform, as audiences around the world all know the chorus.