50+ Music · @50years
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"Get Happy" is a song composed by , with lyrics written by . It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930. The song expresses the theme of , an expression of for salvation. It is most associated with , who performed it in her last MGM film (1950) and in live concert performances throughout the rest of her life.
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50+ Music · @50years
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"" is a 1933 written by and . first sang it at night club in in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by and recorded by . Also in 1933, for the first time the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities.
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