<P> He used his position as a piano accompanist and presenter at the Blue Angel cabaret venue to promote the song, and it was soon introduced in cabaret performances by Felicia Sanders . </P> <P> Kaye Ballard made the first commercial recording of "In Other Words". It was released by Decca in April 1954 . A brief review published on 8 May 1954 in Billboard said that "In Other Words" was "A love song sung with feeling by Miss Ballard ." This recording was released as the flipside of "Lazy Afternoon" which Kaye Ballard was currently performing as star of the stage show The Golden Apple . </P> <P> During the next few years jazz and cabaret singers released cover versions of "In Other Words" on EP or LP record albums including Chris Connor, Johnny Mathis, Portia Nelson and Nancy Wilson . Eydie Gormé featured the song on her 1958 album "Eydie In Love" which reached #20 in the Cashbox Album Charts and was nominated for a Grammy award . </P> <P> In 1960 Peggy Lee recorded the song then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show . As the song's popularity increased, it became better known as "Fly Me to the Moon" and in 1963 Peggy Lee convinced Bart Howard to make the name change official . In the early 1960s versions of the song were released under its new name by many well known singers, including Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan and Brenda Lee . Connie Francis released two non-English versions of the song in 1963: in Italian as "Portami Con Te" and in Spanish as "Llévame a la Luna". </P>

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