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"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra under Brunswick Records that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.
Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904 – July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. [3] Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town".
Stormy Weather is a 1943 American musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox, adapted by Frederick J. Jackson, Ted Koehler and H.S. Kraft from the story by Jerry Horwin and Seymour B. Robinson, directed by Andrew L. Stone, produced by William LeBaron and starring Lena Horne, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and Cab Calloway.
"Stormy Weather" (song), a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler and first sung by Ethel Waters at The Cotton Club in Harlem "Stormy Weather", a song by the Pixies from their 1990 album Bossanova "Stormy Weather" (Echo & the Bunnymen song), their 2005 single "Stormy Weather", a song by Grime MC Wiley, from his 2006 mixtape "Da 2nd ...
In 1964, as the legend of the song grew, Jubilee hired a new group of musicians, under the name of The Five Sharps. They then recorded a new version of "Stormy Weather". It was released as Jubilee 5478, a 45 single. This version is not nearly as collectible as the first version. [7]
In 1945 and 1946, she sang with Billy Eckstine's Orchestra. She made her debut at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Panama Hattie (1942) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather (1943) based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, for 20th Century Fox, while on loan from MGM.
Despite the periodical stormy conditions, high winds, frequent ocean currents, and swells common to the region, workers managed to finish this extraordinary lighthouse between 1938 and 1939 ...
Duke Ellington, directing, at the Hurricane Ballroom Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, in 1936 Ethel Waters sang "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club.. Black and Tan clubs were nightclubs in the United States in the early 20th century catering to the black and mixed-race ("tan") population.