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Shine On, Harvest Moon
Early 1900s popular song performed by Laurel & Hardy comedy duo act. Nice.
"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 in the 21st century.
During the vaudeville era, songs were often sold outright, and the purchaser would be credited as the songwriter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_On,_Harvest_Moon
Cover, sheet music 1908.
