HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD

Created on 22/01/2006
Latest update on 23/03/2012

Artist: Johnny 'Scat' Davis, Frances Langford & Dick Powell
Author: Johnny Mercer/Richard Whiting
Label: WB
Year: 1937

With Benny Goodman's orchestra feat. Gene Krupa in film Hollywood Hotel.

Covers:

1959:

Doris Day

1960:

Sammy Davis Jr. [in film Pepe]

1976:

Geoff Muldaur

1983:

Pasadena Roof Orchestra

1983:

Star Sisters [hit NL]

The industry's unofficial national anthem, tongue in cheek and all. The covers hold extra lyrics, unforseen in 1937: "TV's Lassie and Monroe's chassis".

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