Posted on 11/01/2020 4:31:02 PM PST by Twotone
Last night was the first Halloween with a blue moon for over three-quarters of a century, and visible in every American state, unless yours is in serious lockdown and your apartment is facing the wrong way. What's the expression? "This comes along once in a blue moon"? Pocket that for a Tuesday-night surprise, if you're a cable pundit. My deployment of the phrase two days out is for purely musical pleasure, from one of Rodgers & Hart's biggest hits:
Act One You gulp your coffee and run Into the subway you crowd Don't breathe - it isn't allowed... Doesn't ring any bells? Try junking that lyric and replacing it with these words: Blue Moon You saw me standing alone Without a dream in my heart Without a love of my own...
A "Blue Moon" comes along once in a blue moon: It's a standard for singers who don't sing standards. Actually, that makes it even rarer than a blue moon, which in the non-musical sense comes along more often than the colloquialism would lead one to expect. As for "Blue Moon" the song, in 1961 the Marcels made a famous record of it that went to Number One:
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Every Full Moon on Halloween is always a Blue Moon
Bom-ba-ba-bom, ba-bom-ba-ba-bom, ba-ba-bom-ba-ba-bom / Da-dang-da-da-dang, da-dingy-dong-ding
October is the Hunters moon. Second moon of any month is called a blue moon.
I always remember Rod Taylor singing it in “Fate is the Hunter.”
Are we talking about the beer?
Is that what he was doing? ;)
He seemed to be having fun with the part.
cacciatori di luna
Mark
A full moon on Halloween occurs, on average about twice in 59 years. We happen to be in a period when the 19 year Metonic cycle lines up with the Gregorian Calendar. Full moons on Halloween occur every 19 years this century, 2001*, 2020, 2039, 2058, 2077, 2096. Also in 1925, 1944, 1955, and 1974, with near misses in 1963 and 1982. Any full moon on Halloween is a "blue moon" by the second full moon in calendar month definition.
*In 2001, the "full" moon was at 04:35 Nov 1 UT or 12:35 Nov 1, ET. It was still Halloween in the rest of the country, and the full moon was on the night of 31 Oct - 1 Nov, which I'm callin' "All Hallows E'en".
I missed it . . . the moon was bright yellow in my neck of the woods.
Based on a mistaken interpretation of the Old Maine Almanac in Sky and Telescope Magazine in March 1946, a mistake that became canonical when propagated by the game Trivial Pursuit. The original Maine Almanac definition was the third full moon in an astronomical season containing four. The third, because then the other moons would have the proper relation to the cardinal points of the sun, for instance last full moon before the winter solstice was the Yule moon.
In 19 years there are almost exactly 235 lunations, but only 228 calendar months, and 76 seasons. Therefore there must be at least seven months with two full moons and seven seasons with four full moons. There can be more than seven such months in 19 years, because when there are two full moons in January, there may be none in February and two again in March of the same year. That happened in 1999 and again in 2018, and will again in 2037.
You are correct.
It was a bit on the chilly side here last night but when the bonfire burned down it sure was pretty hanging up there.
#14. If you were at Temple Un. in March of 1964 or 65, you would have seen many “Full Blue Moons” when one of the male dorms decided to, in 34*F weather, greet the women of Williams Hall with a moon line.
Singing “Oh What A Night/Sight”, “Blue Moon” and “Moonlight Feels Right”.
Even Rizzo’s “Best” had to laugh.
I have photos, just not of the Moon Line. Pays to have the campus newspaper photographer as your friend.
That’s some old stuff. My pop probably liked it.
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