Beyond the Blue Horizon is a 1930 popular song written by Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting, and W. Franke Harling. It was introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the Ernst Lubitsch musical Monte Carlo and released as a Victor Records single in November 1930, paired with Always, in All Ways; four takes were recorded on August 4 at the Hollywood Recording Studio with LeRoy Shield conducting, and the second take was issued. The tune reached number 9 in the United States and became MacDonald’s signature song, selling over 12,000 copies and being re-released in 1944. MacDonald later performed it in Follow the Boys (1944) and recorded it for the albums Favorites and Favorites in Hi-Fi (1959). The song has been widely covered by artists and orchestras including George Olsen, Phil Spitalny, Vincent Lopez, Artie Shaw, The Ames Brothers, Frankie Laine, Johnny Mathis, Lou Christie, and Michael Nesmith. It has appeared in film and radio and even inspired the title of the Frederick Pohl novel Beyond the Blue Event Horizon.
