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"Pennies from Heaven" is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra in the 1936 film of the same name .
He became closely associated with Bing Crosby, writing songs for the films College Humor (1933), Too Much Harmony (1933), and Pennies From Heaven (1936), the first film on which he worked with lyricist Johnny Burke. [1] [2] Johnston and Burke were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936 for the song "Pennies From Heaven". [3]
Pennies from Heaven, starring Bing Crosby and Madge Evans, and introducing the song; Pennies from Heaven (1978), a BBC drama by Dennis Potter; Pennies from Heaven, a musical based on the BBC TV series, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters
Cole Porter (music & lyrics) Pennies from Heaven "Pennies from Heaven" Arthur Johnston (music); Johnny Burke (lyrics) Sing, Baby, Sing "When Did You Leave Heaven" Richard A. Whiting (music); Walter Bullock (lyrics) Suzy "Did I Remember" Walter Donaldson (music); Harold Adamson (lyrics) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine "A Melody from the Sky"
1932 Say It with Music – performed by Jack Payne; 1945 Confidential Agent – performed by Lynn Baggett at the road house; 1956 Reach for the Sky; 1959 The Lady Is a Square – sung by Frankie Vaughan; 1959 The Captain's Table; 1970 Country Dance – sung by Al Bowlly; 1978 "The Sweetest Thing" (episode 2 of Pennies from Heaven) – sung by ...
The Bing Crosby version of the song was used in Pennies from Heaven (1981) The Bing Crosby version of the song was used in The Locusts (1997) [10] The Gene Austin version of the song was featured in the 1999 film The Green Mile. A version of the song performed by Sunny Gale was featured in the 2009 film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by ...
In the 1981 Steve Martin mock musical, Pennies From Heaven, a performance of the song by Walter S. Harrah, Gene Merlino, Vern Rowe, Robert Tebow and Al Vescovo is used in a cutaway segment in which Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Jessica Harper lip sync to the song.
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...