Top 40 Moon Songs
Recently, scientists have discovered that there’s more water on the moon than they had previously thought. So, does that mean one day we’ll have to update the Police song to "Swimming on the Moon"? In honor of this discovery, here’s our countdown of the Top 40 songs involving the moon:
- Blue Moon – The Marcels
- Bad Moon Rising – CCR
- Moon River – Andy Williams
- Fly to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
- Walking on the Moon – The Police
- Man on the Moon – R.E.M.
- Harvest Moon – Neil Young
- Sea of Tranquility – Book Of Love
- Papermoon- Nat King Cole
- Cmoon – Paul McCartney
- Desert Moon – Dennis DeYoung
- Luna – Smashing Pumpkins
- Moonlighting Theme – Al Jaurreau
- Dark Side of The Moon – Pink Floyd
- Shame on the Moon – Bob Seger
- Bark at the Moon – Ozzy Osbourne
- The Terrace for Moonlight – Debussy
- Shadow on a Harvest Moon – Everything But The Girl
- Moon Dance – Van Morrison
- Moonlight Serenade – Glenn Miller
- Moonshadow – Cat Stevens
- The Killing Moon-Echo and the Bunnymen
- Blue Moon of Kentucky – Elvis Presley
- Pink Moon – Nick Drake
- New Moon Rising – Wolfmother
- Dancing In The Moonlight – King Harvest
- Theme to Moonracker – Shirley Bassey
- Moonglow – Benny Goodman
- Surfer Moon – The Beachboys
- Eclipse – Pink Floyd
- Tragic Moon Part II – Move23
- Shoot Down The Moon – Elton John
- The Sunny Side Of The Moon – Richard Cheese
- Mr. Moon – O.A.R.
- Moonlight Sonata – Midnight String Quartet
- Moon – Kaiser Cheifs
- The Moon – Cat Power
- Moon – George Winston
- Me and the Moon – Guy Mitchell
- The Moon – Frank Wright
Do you have any moon songs to add to the list?
Drew Carey’s “Moon Over Parma”!
We forgot “Bring Down the Moon” — the followup song to “Waiting for a Star to Fall” by Boy Meets Girl.