This remarkable torch song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler was introduced by Ethel Waters in the Cotton Club Parade of 1933. It was the first song Waters performed before a white audience and she stopped the show with it every night. In the 1943 movie Stormy Weather it was sung by Lena Horne.
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Stormy Weather (1933)
This remarkable torch song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler was introduced by Ethel Waters in the Cotton Club Parade of 1933. It was the first song Waters performed before a white audience and she stopped the show with it every night. In the 1943 movie Stormy Weather it was sung by Lena Horne.
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