Happy Days Are Here Again

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Happy Days Are Here Again is a song composed in 1929 by composer Milton Ager with lyricist Jack Yellen .

original

Happy Days Are Here Again was a hit parade in November 1929 in the version of the Leo Reisman Orchestra with the singing of Lou Levin. The song gained fame because Franklin Delano Roosevelt made it his campaign hit in 1932 for the 1932 presidential election campaign . Because of the optimism that the song exudes, it has since been regarded as the unofficial party anthem of the Democratic Party .

German version

In 1930 the Comedian Harmonists recorded an arrangement of the song under the title Wochenend und Sonnenschein in a German text version by Charles Amberg . The group released the song on August 22, 1930 on a 78 rpm gramophone record.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Fechner: The Comedian Harmonists. Six résumés . Heyne, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-13899-6 .