“You wrote ‘Blue Moon,’ didn’t you?” she asked. She recalled that he did not say no, but he did not say yes, either. That night in 1930 or 1931, he said, “the moon reflected blue on the ice.” She said he formed a circle with his hands, like the moon. He said nothing about Rodgers, Hart, a Tin Pan Alley go-between or a lawsuit. Uncle Dom said that Rodgers and Hart had called Mr. Roman offering to settle for $1,200.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 13:52 UTC