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"Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP Mamas and Papas/Soul Train in 1968. It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968, peaking at #5 [ 4 ] on the Billboard Hot 100 and #26 Easy Listening . [ 5 ]
The Classics IV performed "Pollyanna" on Dick Clark's TV Show Where the Action Is! and the record became a regional hit. But when WABC (AM) radio in New York started playing it they received a call from the Four Seasons' manager demanding they cease airplay of "Pollyanna" or they would no longer get exclusives on future Four Seasons recordings, among other disincentives. [6]
"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra under Brunswick Records that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.
"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues-style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work.
1929 (24) Composed his first well known song – "Get Happy" – under the name Harold Arlen. 1929 (24) Signed a yearlong song writing contract with the George and Arthur Piantadosi firm. 1930–1934 (25–29) Wrote music for the Cotton Club. 1933 (28) At a party, along with partner Ted Koehler, wrote the major hit song "Stormy Weather"
Tanya Tucker leads a crop of other artists to be announced who will record songs inspired by the film. Directed by Sean McNamara, Reagan hits theaters Aug. 30. “I was honored to have Bob join ...
They then added lyrics to a local jazz song which became the hit "Spooky" for the Classics IV, of which both Buie and Cobb were members. [3] Cobb and Buie eventually co-wrote most of the hits for what became Dennis Yost & the Classics IV, including the gold-certified singles "Stormy" and "Traces". Cobb later wrote or co-wrote a number of hits ...
The composer met her afterwards in Paris, and then invited her to perform his song "Solomon" in Nymph Errant in London in 1933. That year, before this show was available, Welch was given permission to perform in London in Dark Doings, in which she sang "Stormy Weather", newly written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. [4]