Happy Days Are Here Again Lyrics Annette Hanshaw
Written 91 years agone, it became the theme song for FDR's entrada and the New Deal for America
Past PAUL ZOLLO
This was the first vocal that came to listen upon hearing the news – real news – that Joe Biden has been elected President today. Information technology is a twenty-four hours in America for celebration. Regardless of party affiliation, today is proof that America is non broken. Democracy, our course of information technology, though far from perfect, did not plummet. Although it's got age-quondam cracks in information technology, similar that big liberty bell, it continues to sing. Considering as Leonard Cohen reminded the states in his song almost song and human promise, "Canticle," "at that place is a crack in everything; it'due south where the light gets in. "
Which brings u.s. back to "Happy Days Are Here Once more," as it is perfect – again – for this moment of national celebration. Commonwealth survived and triumphed. This is a day to rejoice. To sing along – and trip the light fantastic fifty-fifty – to this vocal. Even if nobody wants to dance with you, catch a cat, or a dog. They e'er love a good reason for a happy trip the light fantastic toe.
Songwriters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote "Happy Days Are Here Over again" before the big stock market crash in 1929. But as songwriters often exercise, they seemed to know what was coming. It'south ane of many famous songs to be prophetic, every bit the crash triggered the Great Depression. It became a theme song and then for promise, as it has many times since. Also an anthem of celebration and gratitude when that promise is realized.
Like our current moment of lockdown, unemployment and loss, America in the Depression-era Thirties was a state in demand of hope: there was widespread unemployment, bread-lines everywhere, factories shut down, farms foreclosed. A long season of darkness and despair persisted through most of the 1930s. As it is said, Democracy dies in darkness. This song offered some light, a real-time ray of hope. It wasn't unreal, pie-in-the-sky – or pie anywhere – hope. Information technology wasn't nigh pretending everything is great. It was virtually keeping promise live. Non giving upwards. We're going to go through.
Which is why it'south all about now.
The approachable leadership helped spread the fires of sectionalization – between the political parties, the classes, the races, the nationalities, even the genders.
During which our already fractured society was burdened by the pandemic of virus, but also the ongoing war on truth, endless misinformation, propaganda, race hatred, ignorance, intolerance, police brutality, riots, fires in our cities and in our forests, hurricanes, earthquakes and national business firm arrest. And at a time when Americans were in dire need of clarity, the leadership intentionally disseminated daily barrages of lies, even about the lethal virus destroying countless America lives everyday.
Disinformation most the election itself in tandem with perpetual attacks on the press and truth itself, although formidably persuasive to millions of Americans, failed to derail the election. If annihilation, information technology empowered the populace to take activity, and vote.
So this song, some 91 years past the flavor of its creation, still works, and better than about. It's the reason information technology has endured for near a century now. It'south been born and reborn many times, and possibly due to the ongoing human need for promise, sounds new every fourth dimension.
Milton Ager and Jack Yellen not only wrote the vocal, they recorded its first incarnation. It was an immediate hit. Because of its universal theme and jubilant spirit, it fits perfectly in endless occasions, when it steps upwards to exist the the perfect theme vocal. Besides the Depression and its end, information technology was the theme first for the terminate of Prohibition, when drinking booze was legalized again in America. Through other periodic times of darkness it's been brought back with hope, and with gratitude at the end of those times. Such as now.
Annette Hanshaw, who was 1 of the most famous and most beloved singers of the 30s, had a striking with it that she recorded with Ben Selvin and his Orchestra. In the 50s came Judy Garland's many records of it and and so those of Barbra Streisand. On several occasions the ii of them performed it live together.
So in honour of America and our ongoing being, and the hopeful health of our ongoing experiment in Democracy, here'due south an one-time song for you lot. Merely a expert one.
"Happy Days Are Here Again"
By Jack Yellen & Milton Alger
As recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra,
with Lou Levin, November, 1929 for
the 1930 MGM moving picture Chasing Rainbows.
And so long sorry times, go long bad times,
We are rid of you at terminal
Hi gay times, cloudy gray times,
You are now a thing of the past
Happy days are here over again,
The skies to a higher place are clear again
Then, let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy days are here once more
All together, shout it now,
There's no one who can uncertainty information technology at present,
And so let's tell the globe about it now,
Happy days are here over again
Your cares and troubles are gone,
There'll be no more from now on, from now on!
Happy days are hither once more,
The skies in a higher place are clear again
So, let us sing a song of cheer again,
Happy times, happy nights, happy days are here again
Source: https://americansongwriter.com/happy-days-are-here-again-the-perfect-song-for-now/
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