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". 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 1960, Peggy Lee released the song on the album Pretty Eyes, then made it more popular when she performed it in front of a large television audience on The Ed Sullivan Show. Eydie Gormé sang the song on her 1958 album Eydie In Love, which reached No. Over 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. A brief review published on 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. Kaye Ballard made the song's first commercial recording, released by Decca in April 1954. 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.
it took me 20 years to find out how to write a song in 20 minutes."
Many years later Howard commented that ".
A publisher tried to make him change some words from "fly me to the Moon" to "take me to the Moon," but Howard refused. In response to a publisher's request for a simpler song, Bart Howard wrote a cabaret ballad which he titled "In Other Words". He played piano to accompany cabaret singers, but also wrote songs with Cole Porter, his idol, in mind. In 1954, when he began to write the song that became "Fly Me to the Moon", Bart Howard had been pursuing a career in music for over 20 years.