50+ Music · @50years
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"Get Happy" is a song composed by #HaroldArlen, with lyrics written by #TedKoehler. It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by #RuthEtting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930. The song expresses the #gospelMusic theme of #gettingHappy, an expression of #religiousEcstasy for salvation. It is most associated with #JudyGarland, who performed it in her last MGM film #SummerStock (1950) and in live concert performances throughout the rest of her life.
https://youtu.be/HDp9b9eYoLM
#haroldarlen #tedkoehler #ruthetting #gospelmusic #gettinghappy #religiousecstasy #judygarland #summerstock
50+ Music · @50years
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"In the Chapel in the Moonlight" is a 1936 #popularSong written by #BillyHill, and first performed by #ShepFields. Other successful recordings in 1936–37 were by #RichardHimber, #MalHallett and #RuthEtting. In France, the song is popularised by #LeoMarjane and #LucienneDelyle.
https://youtu.be/uOIsFBvvbfA
#popularsong #billyhill #shepfields #richardhimber #malhallett #ruthetting #leomarjane #luciennedelyle
50+ Music · @50years
32 followers · 4767 posts · Server musicworld.social"In the Chapel in the Moonlight" is a 1936 #popularSong written by #BillyHill, and first performed by #ShepFields. Other successful recordings in 1936–37 were by #RichardHimber, #MalHallett and #RuthEtting. In France, the song is popularised by #LeoMarjane and #LucienneDelyle.
https://youtu.be/abSSCLIQHa4
#popularsong #billyhill #shepfields #richardhimber #malhallett #ruthetting #leomarjane #luciennedelyle
50+ Music · @50years
16 followers · 1841 posts · Server musicworld.social"I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)" is a #popular #song with #music by #FredEAhlert and #lyrics by #RoyTurk. The song was published in #1928. Versions by #NickLucas, #AileenStanley and, most successfully, #RuthEtting, all charted in America in 1929.
https://youtu.be/RX7TA3ezjHc
#popular #song #music #fredeahlert #lyrics #royturk #nicklucas #aileenstanley #ruthetting
⚡𝙍𝙖𝙮𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣⚡ · @rayotron
128 followers · 113 posts · Server ravenation.club"Ten Cents a Dance" was introduced by Ruth Etting in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1930 musical Simple Simon. The lyrics are by Lorenz Hart and music by Richard Rodgers.
#1920s #broadway #ruthetting #jazzage
https://archive.org/details/78_ten-cents-a-dance-a-diez-centavos-el-baile_ruth-etting-rodgers-and-hart_gbia0040869a
#1920s #broadway #ruthetting #jazzage