I stand at your gate and the song that I sing is of moonlight
I stand and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night
The roses are sighing a Moonlight Serenade.

The stars are aglow and tonight how their light sets me dreaming.
My love, do you know that your eyes are like stars brightly beaming?
I bring you and I sing you a Moonlight Serenade

Let us stray till break of day in love's valley of dreams.
Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissin' the trees.

So don't let me wait, come to me tenderly in the June night.
I stand at your gate and I sing you a song in the moonlight
A love song, my darling, a Moonlight Serenade.

This was a variety series that featured the music of the Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Ray McKinley. Moonlight Serenade became the theme song of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the 1930s, some 25 years before it appeared on this show.

The song had an interesting development. Glenn Miller composed the tune around 1935 as part of his studies with a music teacher named Joseph Schillinger. The tune had no name for it was just a composition written for his teacher.

Miller's friend Eddie Herman wrote lyrics to it with the title of Now I Lay Me Down To Weep. Later, different lyrics were composed by George Simon and entitled Gone With The Dawn. Reportedly both of these lyrics were unremarkable and were basically forgotten.

In the meantime, Miller arranged the tune for his band and band members remember the chart as having the title of Miller's Tune on their sheet music.

The tune began to become quite popular with the audience and was on it's way to becoming the band's theme song, so lyricist Mitchell Parish was asked to come up with a set of words to fit it. It has since become one of the favorite songs of the 1930s and the Big Band Era.