Get Happy (song)
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| "Get Happy" | |
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| Song by Ruth Etting | |
| Writer | Ted Koehler |
| Composer | Harold Arlen |
"Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.
It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930.[1]
Influenced by the Get Happy tradition, it is most associated with Judy Garland, who performed it in her last MGM film Summer Stock (1950). An instrumental, hot jazz arrangement of the song, performed by Abe Lyman's Brunswick Recording Orchestra, served as the original theme music for Warner Bros.' Merrie Melodies cartoons in 1932. The song lyrics incorporate the title phrase in the longer phrase "Come on, get happy", but it should not be confused with the Partridge Family theme song "C'mon Get Happy". Garland sang this song with Barbra Streisand in a medley that also included Happy Days Are Here Again on The Judy Garland Show.
[edit] Notable recordings
- Red Norvo and his Selected Sextet (including Charlie Parker) (1945)
- Bud Powell - Jazz Giant (1950)
- Frank Sinatra - Swing Easy! (1954)
- Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook (1961)
- June Christy - Day Dreams (1995), A Friendly Session, Vol. 3 (1998), Cool Christy (2002)
- Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
- Johnny Dankworth - The Best Of Johnny Dankworth (2008)
- Lea Michele and Chris Colfer - Glee (2010)
- Hugh Laurie and Lisa Edelstein[2] - House "Bombshells" (2011)
[edit] References
- ^ S.A. Music [1], The Official Harold Arlen Website, 2001-2002, accessed March 8, 2011.
- ^ "Bombshells". Hugh Laurie as Gregory House and Lisa Edelstein as Lisa Cuddy. House. FOX. March 7, 2011. No. 15, season 7. Retrieved on May 2, 2011.
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