Fabulous Friday: *Moonlighting*

Don't you love how YouTube gives you suggestions based on what you've watched in the past? They were pitching a couple of numbers from the film noir episode of Moonlighting. Moonlighting was an ABC series that ran from 1985 to 1989. It was about two partners in a private detective agency, Cybill Shepherd as Maddie and Bruce Willis as Addison. This was the show that catapulted Willis to fame.

Season two featured an episode called "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice." They go to an abandoned night club and find out there had been a murder there in the 40s. Maddie and Addison each have their own ideas of how the murder happened which leads to them each having a dream sequence shot in black and white in the style of a film noir.

Both feature Maddie as the girl singer in a big band and Addison as the hot shot cornet player. Maddie is led astray by Addison in her version - - she sings "Blue Moon." The switch from rehearsal to performance at 0:52 is amazing. And the rhinestone halter on her gown, wowie wow!

Addison and Maddie are more hard boiled in Addison's version. Maddie sings a song I didn't know and now adore, "I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out." Her carefully fitted black velvet gown, long gloves, and hair-tossing are all nods to Rita Hayworth in Gilda. Never a bad idea, if it's done well. And in this case, yes. Her performance ends with Addison playing a few other instruments in the band as well.

Shepherd has a nice voice. And I love that especially in "Blue Moon" you can hear her Tennessee roots. "Without a love of mah own."