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“Brown Paper Bag” ©
“Way out here” ©
“Everything we got is working” ©
“More then you know” ©
“Marin” ©
“Another World” ©
Billy Moon™ was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He started playing the accordion after moving down to the Jersey shore in the third grade of school.
During school he was doing casual gigs as an accordionist through the New York Federation of Musicians, local 802 around the New Jersey/New York area.
Before graduating High School he took up the guitar, and eventually keyboards.
Since that time, he has formed many groups, and backed up many recording artist. He has written and recorded ten CDs, of all original material.
One of his first groups was called “The Four Dimensions,” and consisted of lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass and drums, along with two go-go girls, who were part of the package. (A news clipping is featured on the “Photo Gallery Page.”) That was his first trip on the road, and went across Canada. Their Canadian contract was canceled when the entire group was arrested in London Ontario, after the authorities found out some of the band members were under the age of twenty one. The Canadian Salvation Army came to their aid, and posted their bail, and paid for their expenses to return to the U.S.
He then joined a New York group called “The 8th Wonders,” based out of “Trudy Heller’s 8th Wonder Club” located in Greenwich village, NY. This gave him much experience backing up recording artist that were performing in the New York clubs at that time.
During that time, he was meeting and jamming with various musicians who were on their way to stardom, including Jimmy Hendrix, (who was going by the name “Jimmy James” at the time) Bob Dylan, and other groups that were performing in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village, and the clubs around town, like The Loving Spoonful, before they became discovered. Those groups were playing their original material for almost no money. At this point Billy started writing his own songs, but the band was too involved with rehearsing what was happening on the charts in order to keep working the club scene, they couldn’t waste time learning an original. They were making good money.