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Jeepers Creepers" is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1938 movie Going Places . [ 1 ] It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has been covered by many other musicians. [ 2 ]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong, who sings it to a horse. Two earlier films, both entitled The Hottentot (1929) and The Hottentot (1922 silent version), were based on the same source.
Jeepers Creepers is a 1939 American musical comedy starring Roy Rogers, with the popular hillbilly comedy troupe the Weaver Brothers and Elviry. Rogers plays a Sheriff in a town where a rich industrialist cheats a poor family out of their land when coal is discovered there.
"Jeepers creepers", a minced oath substitute for the phrase "Jesus Christ" "Jeepers Creepers" (song), a popular 1938 song; Jeepers Creepers (1939 live-action film), a 1939 film starring Roy Rogers; Jeepers Creepers (1939 animated film), a 1939 animated short film featuring Porky Pig; Jeepers Creepers (film series), a film series originally ...
Their first Republic picture, 1938's Down in 'Arkansaw', had the Weavers second-billed after Ralph Byrd; with their second film, the 1939 Jeepers Creepers, they received top billing. [2] After the box office success of Jeepers Creepers, Republic signed a contract with the Weavers for three movies a year for the next two years. [4]
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
The Your Hit Parade chart was established in April 1935, which operated under a proprietary formula to determine the popularity of a song based on five factors, including 1) record sales (divided between a) retail and b) wholesale), 2) sheet-music copies of the song (both retail and wholesale), 3) number of radio plays, a category that is sub ...
The film was able to hold the record until the release of its sequel, Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003), which made $18.3 million on its own Labor Day weekend. [55] [56] Jeepers Creepers made $18.1 million in its first week, [57] and grossed $6.2 million in its second behind the releases of The Musketeer ($10.3 million) and Two Can Play That Game ($7.7 ...