Monthly Archives: April 2010

Come Rain or Come Shine, Arlen and Mercer Weather Broadway

It never ceases to amaze me that Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer could create Come Rain or Come Shine in only one evening of work together. “Not too shabby”, as they say. Perhaps there’s also a message here for piano … Continue reading

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Let’s Fall In Love, Arlen and Koehler’s Third 1933 Hit

Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler wrote Let’s Fall in Love in 1933, the same year as their hits Stormy Weather and It’s Only a Paper Moon (two songs featured in my recent blog posts). Several years ago, I realized that … Continue reading

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Stormy Weather, the Raining Blues

It seems particularly appropriate to include Stormy Weather in this Harold Arlen series of blog posts considering the amount of rain that we had in New England during the past few weeks. If you’re like me, you encountered several detours … Continue reading

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It’s Only a Paper Moon, Fanciful and Fun

If you’ve been following my posts on American Popular Songbook composers and lyricists during the past months, you may have noticed that many of these well-known creative artists adopted stage names. The two lyricists who collaborated with Harold Arlen (as … Continue reading

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