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  • Stormy Weather
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  • 12-inch single
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  • Pop standards
  • Shirley Bassey songs
  • 1985 singles
  • Torch songs
  • Judy Garland songs
  • Songs with music by Harold Arlen
  • United States National Recording Registry recordings
  • Etta James songs
  • Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne
  • Ringo Starr songs
  • Lena Horne songs
  • 1933 songs
  • Songs with lyrics by Ted Koehler
  • Fats Comet songs
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  • %22Stormy Weather%22 is a 1933 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 that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford. Also 1933, for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities. The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to the Stormy Weather Revue and as the name implies, the show contained the hit song %22Stormy Weather%22 which was sung by Adelaide Hall.The song has since been performed by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Etta James, Clodagh Rodgers, and Reigning Sound and most famously by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday. Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records (with Arlen himself as vocalist), although Ethel Waters's recorded version also sold well. %22Stormy Weather%22 was featured in the 1943 movie of the same name.The song tells of disappointment, as the lyrics, %22Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky%22, show someone pining for her man to return. The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer: %22stormy weather since my man and I ain't together, keeps raining all the time.%22The original handwritten lyrics, along with a painting by Ted Koehler, were featured on the (US) Antiques Roadshow on 24 January 2011, where they were appraised for between $50,000 and $100,000. The lyrics show a number of crossings out and corrections.Ethel Waters's recording of the song in 1933 was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003, and the Library of Congress honored the song by adding it to the National Recording Registry in 2004. Also in 2004, Horne's version finished at #30 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
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  • Harold Arlen
  • Ted Koehler
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  • CAM190300411
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  • Adrian Sherwood
  • Fats Comet
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  • 6972
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  • 17968971
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  • english
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  • Southern Studios, London, England
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  • Stormy Weather
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