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In the Evening By  the Moonlight, 1908
In the Evening By the Moonlight, 1908  
Words and music by James Bland. Hitchcock Publishing.
(Originally published, 1880)

One of James Bland's most popular and enduring compositions, In the Evening by the Moonlight is one of his incredible 700 compositions. In 1960 Nina Simone performed an interpretation of In the Evening by the Moonlight at the Fifth Newport Jazz Festival.