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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" (Roud 7992) is an American folk song that responds with humorous sarcasm to unhelpful moralizing about the circumstance of being a hobo. [1] The song's authorship is uncertain, but according to hobo poetry researcher Bud L. McKillips, the words were written by an IWW member.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression. The title is taken from the American folk song " Hallelujah, I'm a Bum ", and the film contains a song called "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum", but the song from the movie is entirely different than the folk song from which ...
"The Big Rock Candy Mountains", "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Harry Kirby McClintock (October 8, 1884 – April 24, 1957), also known as " Haywire Mac ", was an American railroad man, radio personality, actor, singer, songwriter, and poet, best known for his song " The Big Rock Candy Mountains ".
Their songs have long been favorites of cabaret singers and jazz artists. Ella Fitzgerald recorded Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook and Andrea Marcovicci based one of her cabaret acts entirely on Rodgers and Hart songs. [8] In their era musicals were revue-like and librettos were little more than excuses for comic turns and ...
Hallelujah! I'm a Bum is the seventh studio album by Chicago-based rock band Local H. Interviews with the band have revealed that it is a concept album based on politics in the United States. Although the album was completed in spring of 2012, the band chose to release it in September as to be closer to the 2012 presidential election.
As a way to promote his new film The Journey: A Music Special from Andrea Bocelli, he recruited singer Tori Kelly to help him present a soulful rendition of Leonard Cohen's classic tune "Hallelujah."
Rodgers and Hart wrote music and lyrics for several films, including Love Me Tonight (1932), The Phantom President (1932), Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), and Mississippi (1935). [3] With their successes, during the Great Depression Hart was earning $60,000 annually, and he became a magnet for many people. He gave numerous large parties.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines hallelujah as “a song or shout of praise to God,” but biblical scholars will tell you it’s actually a smash-up of two Hebrew words: “hallel” meaning ...