Singin 'in the Rain (song)

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Singin 'in the Rain is a film hit written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown from 1929, which is primarily associated with Gene Kelly's performance in the 1952 sound film of the same name .

America

Singin 'in the Rain is a foxtrot that was used in Stanley Donen's film musical of the same title in 1952 . The songwriters Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown wrote it in 1929 for the early American sound film The Hollywood Revue of 1929 by director Charles Reisner . In America, the song was published by Robbins Music Corporation.

After the Second World War it had become a popular jazz standard, interpreted by pianists like Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson , and accordionist John Serry senior for RCA Records (RCA Thesaurus, 1954) and vocalists Eydie Gormé and Lena Horne . Even Sammy Davis jr. and Doris Day had it in their repertoire. The director Stanley Kubrick deliberately used the song in his dystopian film A Clockwork Orange in 1971 to accompany an excess of violence. The American Film Institute voted the song at number 3 in the list of the 100 best American film songs in 2004.

Germany

In Germany, Donen's musical film came to cinemas in 1953 under the alternative title “You should be my lucky star”. The song was published in 1929 by the music publisher Armin L. Robinson’s Alrobi Musikverlag in Berlin. The German text was written by the team of authors Peter Herz and Armin Robinson.

In 1978, a disco version of the song by Sheila & B. Devotion reached number 6 in the charts in Germany.

Europe

The song became a hit across Europe. In Germany, well-known dance orchestras such as Sam Baskini and Barnabás von Géczy played it on gramophone records. In Great Britain , Turner Layton and Clarence Johnstone took it to British Columbia. Jack Hylton and his band recorded it for HMV on September 9, 1929. In Sweden it was recorded by Helge Lindberg's jazz orchestra for Nordisk Polyphon; Hilmar Borgeling sang the Swedish chorus of “Orvar” . In Czechoslovakia the title was recorded by the famous jazz orchestra of the “Liberated Theater” in Prague under the direction of Jaroslav Ježek at Ultraphon, the Czech refrain was written and the two cabaret artists Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich sang .

For owners of electric pianos, it was also available on piano rolls.

Audio documents

  • Derby blue DO 5689 a (mx. 94 RH) I sing only for you (Singing in the rain) Foxtrot (Fried [sic], Brown - Herz, Robinson) Karkoff orchestra with German refraing singing, aufgen. 1929
  • Parlophone B.12 199-I (Matr. 38 322) I sing only for you (Singing in the rain) Foxtrot (Nacio Herb Brown - arr. Von Géczy-Jaeger) Barnabás von Géczy and his orchestra from the 'Esplanade' Berlin, aufgen . 1929
  • Eltag Nr. 2427 (Matr. 5937) I sing only for you (Singing in the rain) Foxtrot (Nacio Herb Brown - Arthur Freed) Sam Baskini and his jazz symphonists [as “Fred Jones and his band”], with refraing singing, up. September 1930
  • Polyphon XS 41 525 (S 41 525), inspelad i Stockholm, April 1930: När rnet faller på (Singin 'in the rain) Fox Trot av NHBrown, Text av Orvar. Spelat av Helge Lindbergs Orkester, Refrängsång av Hilmer Borgeling
  • Ultraphon 36 203 (Matr. 15 768) Já nedelam [I sing only for you / Singing in the rain] Foxtrot (Hudba: Nacio Herbert Brown, slova: Voskovec + Werich) Zpivaji Voskovec + Werich. Ježkův orchestr osvobozeného divadla, řidi Jaroslav Ježek . Up. circa November 1930
  • Columbia 5650 (Matr. A 9482) Singing in the Rain (Theme song Hollywood Revue of 1929 ) (Freed & Brown) Layton and Johnstone, American Duettists. With piano. Rec. 1929
  • Metro Goldwyn Mayer 1031-I (Columbia Matr. 160 381) Singin 'in the rain, Fox Trot (Nacio Herb Brown - Arthur Freed) Jack Miller and the New Englanders, with vocal refrain
  • Orchestrion roll Aeolian Duo-Art No. 0670, "Singing in the Rain": arranged and played by Edith Leslie

literature

  • Alf Brustellin: Singing in the rain. About the strange realities in American film musicals. In: Andrea Pollach, Isabelle Reicher, Tanja Widmann (eds.): Singing and dancing in films. Vienna 2003, pp. 13–39.
  • Joachim Bruges, Nils Grosch: Singin 'in the Rain: cultural history of a Hollywood musical classic. Waxmann Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8309-8009-4 , pp. 65, 78, 81–83, 107, 110,
  • Trixi Maraile Flügel: The musical as part of classic Hollywood cinema. Publisher diplom.de. ISBN 978-3-8324-0113-9 , p. 79.
  • Rainer Hering, Rainer Nicolaysen (eds.): Living social history: memorial for Peter Borowsky. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-89787-9 , pp. 775-777.
  • Nils Grosch: Doin 'What Comes Naturally. Voice, star, theatrical dramaturgy and the original Broadway cast album. In: Martin Pfleiderer, Tilo Hähnel, Katrin Horn, Christian Bielefeldt (eds.): Voice, culture, identity: vocal expression in popular music in the USA, 1900–1960. transcript Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-3086-6 , p. 112.
  • Horst Heinz Lange: Jazz in Germany: the German jazz chronicle up to 1960. 2nd edition. Verlag G. Olms, 1996, ISBN 3-487-08375-2 , pp. 226-227.
  • Stephan Sperl: The semantization of music in Stanley Kubrick's cinematic work. Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006.
  • Rudolf Ulrich: Austrians in Hollywood. Filmarchiv Austria, 2004, pp. 122, 385, 387.
  • Dick Weindling, Marianne Colloms: The eventful life of singer and composer Turner Layton. In: West Hampstead Life. April 17, 2014. (westhampsteadlife.com)

Web links

Illustrations

  • Movie poster for "The Hollywood Revue" from 1929
  • Broadway Melody Of 1936 Movie Poster from America
  • Movie poster from France for Broadway Melody Of 1936 - La naissance d'une ètoile

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. IMDb  ; Cover of the film program for Hollywood Revue from the American cinema “Grauman's Chinese” shown. at sqspcdn.com ; in the film “Ukulele Ike” Cliff Edwards can be seen with his version of Singin 'in the Rain , in which he accompanies himself on said instrument. The film ends with a huge technicolor revue scene in which all the actors dance, sing and play music around a replica of Noah's Ark to the renewed sounds of Singin 'in the Rain .
  2. ↑ Fig. Of the sheet music title at silentfilmstillarchive.com
  3. ^ Who Is Who in Music International 1958 . Publisher: Who Is Who in Music International, Chicago, Il, USA. Biographical File # B11719 for John Serry. Current publisher: International Biographical Center, Cambridgeshire, UK
  4. ↑ A list of the published recordings at secondhandsongs.com
  5. ↑ cf. on this Sperl p. 143.
  6. ↑ afi.com
  7. ↑ the title is misleading as there was already a hit text that read like this. It was the German version of the American hit You are my Lucky Star from the MGM film musical Broadway Melody Of 1936 by Roy Del Ruth , cf. Great American Song Book , Fig.d. Note title at mijnwebwinkel.nl ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . It was also a work by Brown and Freed and was also published in Germany. Well-known bands such as Die Goldene Sieben with Refraingesang, on Electrola EG 3574 (Mat. ORA 1066, recording date: November 1935) and Hans Bund and his dance orchestra, with singing by Ludwig Bernauer on Gloria 27 308 (Mat. Bi 2589, aufgen . 1936) a. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / static.mijnwebwinkel.nl
  8. ↑ Photo of the artist at ytimg.com . Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  9. ↑ label shown. at yimg.com
  10. ↑ cf. Hilmer Borgeling in the Swedish Wikipedia, there also a photo of the singer
  11. ↑ z. B. at Aeolian Duo-Art, cf. No. 0670, arranged and played by Edith Leslie
  12. ↑ listen on YouTube
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  17. ↑ listen on YouTube ; a promotional record from MGM for sale in the cinema, cf. "MGM records were sold in the theater presumably in which the movie eg" The Hollywood Revue "was playing."
  18. ↑ listen on YouTube