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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.
1929 (24) Composed his first well known song – "Get Happy" – under the name Harold Arlen. 1929 (24) Signed a yearlong song writing contract with the George and Arthur Piantadosi firm. 1930–1934 (25–29) Wrote music for the Cotton Club. 1933 (28) At a party, along with partner Ted Koehler, wrote the major hit song "Stormy Weather"
"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 ...
Throughout the early and mid-1930s they wrote for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, for big band jazz legend Duke Ellington and other top performers, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films. [2] Koehler also worked with other composers, including Jimmy McHugh, Rube Bloom, Harry Warren and Sammy Fain. [1]
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.
In addition, KISS’ Gene Simmons has taped a new rendition of the 1930s torch song “Stormy Weather,” which will soundtrack a scene between Reagan and his actress wife Jane Wyman in a ...
Weather. 24/7 Help. ... Elton John Was 'Miserably Unhappy' Over Stormy Romance When He Wrote 'Candle in the Wind': 'I Kind of Fell Apart' ... which introduced the title song and the future classic
Waller re-recorded the song with vocals for the 1943 movie Stormy Weather. Waller's recording [which?] received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award during 1984. In 2001, it was one of 365 Songs of the Century selected by the RIAA, [6] and it was one of fifty recordings selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry by the Library of ...