
"Stormy Weather" and "Supper Time" . Two classic songs from the Great American songbook. Sung by 25 year old Lena Horne and 22 year old Barbra Streisand. These two songs were introduced in the 1930s by the great Ethel Waters. Great music and lyrics by the greats Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, and Irving Berlin. Photos: Lena Horne in Paris 1947 More details will follow relating to the background of these 2 songs " Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler were writing music for shows at the Cotton Club, the premier Harlem nightclub in the 1920s and 1930s, where wealthy white patrons paid to watch celebrity black entertainers///. Arlen and Koehler worked at the Cotton Club from 1930 to 1934, writing songs for two shows per year. At a party in 1933, while fiddling around at a piano, they wrote "Stormy Weather" in less than 30 minutes, with Cotton Club entertainer Cab Calloway in mind to sing the song. 1933 Cotton Club Parade, Ethel Waters had recently returned to New York and may be available to sing "Stormy Weather." Wealthy patrons queued up in front of the club to hear the great Ethel Waters sing it. It was to be Waters' only performance in the show, and she didn't appear until late in the first act. The 1933 Cotton Club Parade was one of the most successful to be staged by the club, and came to be known as "The Stormy Weather Show." Waters' singing became the talk of New York and the song virtually launched a new career for her. Irving Berlin, who did not often frequent New York cabarets <b>...</b>
Lena
Horne
Barbra
Streisand
Barbara
Harold
Arlen
Ted
Koehler
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Irving
Berlin
Ray
Ellis
Paris
1947
Ethel
Waters
Ohne
dich
バーブラ·ストライサンド
Black
history
heritage
supper
time
suppertime
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סטרייסאַנד