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"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926. "Blue Skies" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "Bluebirds singing a song/Nothing but bluebirds all day long." The sunny optimism of the lyrics are undercut by the minor key giving the words an ironic feeling.
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical ... "Blue Skies" (music and lyrics by ... The function and meaning of blackface in the film is intimately ...
In 1927, his song "Blue Skies" was featured in the first feature-length talkie, The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson. Later, movies such as Top Hat (1935) became the first of a series of distinctive film musicals by Berlin starring performers Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, and Alice Faye.
[117] [118] Berlin responded with "Blue Skies", and on the opening night the audience demanded 24 encores of Baker's song. [118] A 1927 rendition by Ben Selvin and His Orchestra, recorded under the name "The Knickerbockers", became a number one hit. Al Jolson performed the song in 1927 in the first ever feature-length sound film, The Jazz ...
1927 – "Blue Skies" [46] [70] is a show tune by Irving Berlin from the musical Betsy. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart had originally written a solo number for Belle Baker, titled "This Funny World", but the star was unsatisfied with the song and asked Berlin to write a show-stopper for the musical.
It was registered as an unpublished song on August 24, 1927 and again on July 27, 1928. [1] It was introduced by Harry Richman and chorus in the musical film Puttin' On the Ritz (1930). According to The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin , this was the first song in film to be sung by an interracial ensemble. [ 1 ]
Monk recorded "In Walked Bud" several times during his career, starting with the 1947 sessions later compiled for Genius of Modern Music (1951). [4] According to music critic Robert Christgau, Monk's rendition of the song for his 1958 live album Misterioso featured "a long, laconically hilarious (and laconically, hilariously virtuosic) Johnny Griffin solo that's a landmark of saxophony". [5]
US Billboard 1927 #16, US #2 for 4 weeks, 8 total weeks 17: Nick Lucas "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" [19] Brunswick 3439: January 25, 1927 () March 1927 () US Billboard 1927 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 10 total weeks 18: George Olsen and His Music "Blue Skies" [20] Victor 20455: January 19, 1927 () April 1927 ()