GET HAPPY

Created on 26/11/2007
Latest update on 21/11/2023

Artist: Ruth Etting
Author: Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
Year: 1930

In revue 9:15; Harold Arlen's first published song. While he was a Broadway rehearsal pianist, this was the tune he rallied revue dancers with. Until he was encouraged to work it out as a full song before anyone else stole that riff.

Covers:

1930:

Nat Shilkret

1930:

Frankie Trumbauer

1936:

Benny Goodman

1950:

Judy Garland [in film Summer Stock/If You Feel Like Singing]

1950:

Bud Powell

1952:

Jane Froman [in film With A Song In My Heart]

1960:

Ella Fitzgerald

1963:

Judy Garland & Barbra Streisand [in the Judy Garland Show]

1964:

Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli [At The Palladium]

1991:

Barbra Streisand

2000:

Candye Kane

2011:

Puppini Sisters

2013:

Pink Martini [with Rufus Wainwright]

2015:

Brad Mehldau

2022:

Rufus Wainwright [on Rufus Does Judy At Capitol Studios]

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