In other words

I got to admit that I'm not really a crooner fan. However, the song titled "Fly me to the moon" and sung by Frank Sinatra is one of the song that I can listen to on a somewhat regular basis (read a couple of times by month). I was a bit surprised to find out that Sinatra wasn't actually the original singer of this world famous song... According to Wikipedia, it was written in 1954, that is 8 years before JFK sets the Moon as the goal of the U.S space program (and as a matter of fact the prize for the space race heating up with the russians) ... It's only in 1964 that Sinatra helped made this song popular ... I wonder how much of the fact that it's linked to the then on-going space race as to do with it success .... in a way it's a bit funny that a song (which original title was "In other words") which have only and hand full of space related contents (moon,starts,jupiter and mars) is regarded by many as a classical theme song for space ...

Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like
On a-Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, I love you
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing for ever more
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
In other words, please be true
In other words, in other words
I love ... you