Song 794: This week the playlist puts the spotlight on Shoot the Moon by Hugh Blumenfeld, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Usually I add a friend song to this list every seven weeks, but the last one I did only six weeks after the previous one (780 and 786) so now this one comes eight weeks later, having been created by another one of my Fast Folk buddies. He included the tune on his Rocket Science album that he released back in the late 1990s, during an era when I helped to maintain the FF magazine by doing the layouts for it. A few decades earlier, as a teenager, I rarely stood under the street lamps at night, and even with my toy guns during my single-digit years, I doubt it ever occurred to me to try to shoot the moon. I will never forget, though, that one small step for mankind that I saw on a TV in 1969 when humans actually walked on the moon for the first time.
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