In 1912 Charles "Luckey" Roberts composed the ragtime "Ripples Of The Night". The tune was extremely fast and needed a master to play it, Luckey did that with very large and wide hands. James Price Johnson was considered such a master but even he couldn't complete the tune with precision, neither could the legendary George Gershwin. For this reason Luckey slowed it down and called it "Moonlight Cocktail".

The big band recording of "Moonlight Cocktail" with lyrics added by Kim Gannon came from Glenn Miller in 1942. Featuring vocals by Ray Eberle and The Modernaires the song dominated the charts staying at number one for ten weeks. Wikipedia "During World War II, the BBC initiated a program called "Victory Through Harmony" that sought to use musical radio broadcasts to maintain wartime morale and increase weapons production. Some types of music were seen as a hindrance to such goals. Along with many other popular songs of the era, "Moonlight Cocktail" was banned by the BBC as "sentimental slush" in August 1942."