Sarah Vaughan ft George Treadwell His All Stars East of the Sun ( Columbia Records 1950)

East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) is a popular song written by Brooks Bowman, an undergraduate member of Princeton University s Class of 1936, for the 1934 production of the Princeton Triangle Club s production of Stags at Bay. It was published in 1934 and soon became a signature song of the Princeton Nassoons, Princeton University s oldest a cappella group. East of the Sun was first recorded by Hal Kemp for Brunswick Records on Dec. 1, 1934. Soon after their founding in the late 1930s, the Princ br, br,