含蓄的张扬

Mining, and discovering, that’s what I am doing here at Microsoft Research Asia (微软中国研究院). Here i won’t talk about data mining in a technical detail, but hey, I will share a very nice tune with you guys. Apparently, as as a person born in the 80s, I probably do not have any idea of how the songs and music are like back in the 40s.The 40s is such a long time ago, even our parents probably won’t have much of an idea of how it’s like. But there is a song from the 40s that totally got me. Yes, that’s the title of this blog post — “Fly Me to the Moon”.

Well, my first time listening the song was about 5 or 6 years ago. Played by Paul Gilbert, the former lead guitar from Mr. Big. Though it wasn’t the original version, and at that time I cannot even figure out the what the lyrics was (my English at that time was pretty poor). I was totally attracted by the melody from his guitar. I listened the song from the low quality video clip again and again, and can’t wait to try it on my Ibanez RG270 guitar, but failed at the end because I could not find a nice guitar tab on the web that I like at that time. Below is the Paul Gilbert version I was listening to, I found it on youtube:

Paul Gilbert - Fly Me To The Moon

Today, when I was listening to last.fm radio, I found a song from an artist called Frank Sinatra was pretty good, so I checked out his profile. Guess what? He was the original singer who song “Fly Me to The Moon”. What a coincidence!!! After so many years, the song was still very tasteful. Sinatra’s version feels even more mellow like a glass of nice wine. With more understanding of the lyrics, it got me deeply touched. Wow, this is the song, the one song I feel I would like to say so much about it, but their is no such words to describe that feeling, neither in English or Chinese. Below is the original version:

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me to the Moon Lyrics

Another live version:

Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon

There are other people played this song on youtube, I have listed a few of the good ones below. Please do check out if you like me does not know the song but loves this song

Fly Me to the Moon - Zack Kim

Fly Me To The Moon - llanbradach