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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.
Stephen Bourne opens his 2007 biography, Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, with the statement that genealogical research has shown that Louise Anderson may have been 15 or 16 years old. [ 7 ] Soon after Waters was born, her mother married Norman Howard, a railroad worker, with whom she had a daughter, Juanita Howard, Ethel's half-sister.
Elisabeth Margaret Welch (February 27, 1904 – July 15, 2003) was an American singer, actress, and entertainer, whose career spanned seven decades. [3] Her best-known songs were "Stormy Weather", "Love for Sale" and "Far Away in Shanty Town".
In addition to these soundtrack and studio recordings, Garland would also perform numerous songs on her 1963–1964 CBS television series, The Judy Garland Show, with an array of famous guest performers. Garland also performed countless times on the radio and gave hundreds of concerts throughout her career, many of these performances were ...
First, this is technically the second Miss Universe of the year, as 2020's competition was caught in a COVID delay, and wound up being postponed to May 2021, when it took place in Hollywood, Fla ...
"Come Rain or Come Shine" is a popular music song and jazz standard with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. [1] It was written for the Broadway musical St. Louis Woman , which opened on March 30, 1946, and closed after 113 performances. [ 1 ]
In 1964, as the legend of the song grew, Jubilee hired a new group of musicians, under the name of The Five Sharps. They then recorded a new version of "Stormy Weather". It was released as Jubilee 5478, a 45 single. This version is not nearly as collectible as the first version. [7]
The CD re-issue includes several single only tracks recorded during the studio session for the LP Stormy Weather, also included are the four tracks originally released in 1957 on the EP Lena Horne at the Cocoanut Grove. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3.52 (Alternative previously unreleased recording)