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"Heat Wave" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer, and introduced in the show by Ethel Waters. [ 1 ] Film appearances
As Thousands Cheer is a revue with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1933.The revue contained satirical sketches and witty or poignant musical numbers, several of which became standards, including "Heat Wave", "Easter Parade" and "Harlem on my Mind".
The show yielded a succession of hit songs, including "Easter Parade" sung by Marilyn Miller and Clifton Webb, "Heat Wave" (presented as the weather forecast), "Harlem on My Mind", and "Supper Time", a song about racial violence inspired by a newspaper headline about a lynching, sung by Ethel Waters. She once said about the song, "If one song ...
According to the New York Public Library, whose Irving Berlin collection comprises 555 non-commercial recordings radio broadcasts, live performances, and private recordings, [4] he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911.
[18] Television host Ed Sullivan described Monroe's performance of the song "Heat Wave" as "one of the most flagrant violations of good taste" he had witnessed. [19] A review in Time magazine called the film "an Irving Berlin potpourri, containing some good old sweetmeats along with a few fresh-picked sour apple." Gaynor was noted as having "a ...
"Heat Wave" (Irving Berlin song), 1933 "Heat Wave" (Martha and the Vandellas song), a 1963 Holland–Dozier–Holland song recorded by Martha and the Vandellas, and later recorded by Linda Ronstadt and The Who "Heatwave" (Robin Schulz song), 2015, featuring Akon "Heatwave" (Wiley song), 2012 "Heat Waves", a song by Glass Animals from the album ...
Lazy (Irving Berlin song) Let Yourself Go (Irving Berlin song) Let's All Be Americans Now; Let's Face the Music and Dance; Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee; Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk (Irving Berlin song)
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Song Book is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Paul Weston, focusing on the songs of Irving Berlin. [2] [3] It was part of the popular and influential Songbook series.