Harold Arlen's Birthday is Today

Happy birthday, Harold Arlen
Born Hyman (Chaim) Arluck
Buffalo, NY
February 15, 1905

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You're gonna love me, like nobody's loved me,
Come rain or come shine
Happy together, unhappy together
and won't it be fine
Days may be cloudy or sunny
We're in or we're out of the money
But I'm with you always
I'm with you rain or shine
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Harold Arlen was the son of a cantor, born one hundred and ten years ago today in Buffalo, New York. He wrote the music for "Get Happy," "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues," "Stormy Weather," "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea," "I've Got the World on a String," "Let's Fall in Love," "Ill Wind," "Paper Moon," "Last Night When We Were young," "Over the Rainbow," "If I Only Had a Brain," "Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead," "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," "Blues in the Night," "Accentuate the Positive," "My Shining Hour," "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)," "Come Rain or Come Shine," "That Old Black Magic," "Hit the Road to Dreamland," "This Time the Dream's On Me," "I Wonder What Became of Me," "The Man That Got Away."

"I can't explain / It's the same champagne. . ."

-- DL

Comments

[Laura Orem]

I didn't know he wrote "Lydia the Tattooed Lady!" The things you learn at the BAP blog...

"She has eyes that men adore so,
And a torso even more so..."

There's a lyric to be proud of.