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"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is a popular Vaudeville song. The music is credited to Harry Carroll , but the melody is adapted from Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin . The lyrics were written by Joseph McCarthy , and the song was published in 1917.
Sheet music for Irene. Thomas Joseph McCarthy (September 27, 1885 – December 18, 1943) [1] was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include "You Made Me Love You", and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows", [1] from the now-forgotten Oh, Look!
The melody of the Fantaisie-Impromptu ' s middle section was used in the popular Vaudeville song "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows". That theme was quoted in Variation 10 of Federico Mompou's Variations on a Theme of Chopin, which is otherwise based on Chopin's Prelude No. 7 in A major. George Crumb's Makrokosmos, Volume 1: 11.
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" Chopin Adaptation: Harry Carroll: Joseph McCarthy 1945 with Russ Case Orchestra & The Satisfiers [61] from the film The Dolly Sisters [206] 1946 with André Kostelanetz & his Orchestra [206] "I May Never Pass This Way Again" Murray Wizel Irving Melcher Arranged by Jack Andrews [207] 1958
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" December 18, 1940 Judy Garland with Orchestra directed by David Rose: Harry Carroll Joseph McCarthy "Our Love Affair" B-side 1941 [16] "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" (Alternate) Smilin' Through: The Singles Collection, 1936—1947: 2011 [16] "Our Love Affair" Roger Edens Arthur Freed Single A-side 1941 [16]
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Rose of Washington Square is a 1939 American musical drama film, featuring the already well-known popular song with the same title. Set in 1920s New York City, the film focuses on singer Rose Sargent and her turbulent relationship with con artist Barton DeWitt Clinton, whose criminal activities threaten her professional success in the Ziegfeld Follies.
On September 15, 2002, Sara Niemietz and Donna Lynne Champlin performed the song, "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" before an estimated audience of fifty thousand in Times Square at the eleventh annual Broadway on Broadway event. [72] [73] Niemietz and Champlin also performed "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" on ABC's The View in 2002. [74]