Happy Days Are Here Again Fdr
Written 91 years agone, information technology became the theme vocal for FDR's campaign and the New Deal for America
By PAUL ZOLLO
This was the first song that came to heed upon hearing the news – existent news – that Joe Biden has been elected President today. It is a twenty-four hour period in America for commemoration. Regardless of party amalgamation, today is proof that America is not broken. Commonwealth, our form of it, though far from perfect, did not collapse. Although it's got age-old cracks in it, similar that big liberty bell, it continues to sing. Because as Leonard Cohen reminded us in his vocal near song and human hope, "Anthem," "in that location is a crack in everything; it's where the light gets in. "
Which brings u.s. back to "Happy Days Are Here Once more," every bit information technology is perfect – over again – for this moment of national celebration. Democracy survived and triumphed. This is a day to rejoice. To sing along – and dance even – to this song. Even if nobody wants to trip the light fantastic with you, take hold of a cat, or a dog. They ever love a good reason for a happy dance.
Songwriters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote "Happy Days Are Here Again" before the big stock market crash in 1929. Just equally songwriters oftentimes practice, they seemed to know what was coming. It's one of many famous songs to be prophetic, equally the crash triggered the Great Depression. It became a theme song then for hope, as it has many times since. Also an anthem of celebration and gratitude when that hope is realized.
Like our electric current moment of lockdown, unemployment and loss, America in the Depression-era Thirties was a land in need of hope: there was widespread unemployment, staff of life-lines everywhere, factories shut downward, farms foreclosed. A long season of darkness and despair persisted through most of the 1930s. Every bit it is said, Republic dies in darkness. This song offered some light, a real-time ray of hope. It wasn't unreal, pie-in-the-heaven – or pie anywhere – hope. It wasn't virtually pretending everything is corking. It was about keeping hope alive. Non giving up. We're going to go through.
Which is why information technology's all about at present.
The outgoing leadership helped spread the fires of division – between the political parties, the classes, the races, the nationalities, even the genders.
During which our already fractured social club 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 house abort. And at a fourth dimension when Americans were in dire need of clarity, the leadership intentionally disseminated daily barrages of lies, even near the lethal virus destroying endless America lives everyday.
Disinformation about the ballot 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 anything, it empowered the populace to accept activeness, and vote.
So this song, some 91 years past the flavour of its creation, still works, and amend than almost. Information technology's the reason it has endured for nearly a century now. Information technology's been born and reborn many times, and possibly due to the ongoing man need for hope, sounds new every time.
Milton Ager and Jack Yellen not only wrote the vocal, they recorded its get-go incarnation. It was an immediate hit. Because of its universal theme and jubilant spirit, it fits perfectly in countless occasions, when it steps up to be the the perfect theme song. Besides the Depression and its cease, it was the theme first for the end of Prohibition, when drinking booze was legalized again in America. Through other periodic times of darkness it'south been brought back with hope, and with gratitude at the end of those times. Such as at present.
Annette Hanshaw, who was 1 of the virtually famous and most beloved singers of the 30s, had a hit with it that she recorded with Ben Selvin and his Orchestra. In the 50s came Judy Garland'south many records of it and then those of Barbra Streisand. On several occasions the two of them performed it live together.
So in accolade of America and our ongoing existence, and the hopeful health of our ongoing experiment in Democracy, here's an onetime song for you. Merely a expert one.
"Happy Days Are Hither Once again"
By Jack Yellen & Milton Alger
As recorded past Leo Reisman and His Orchestra,
with Lou Levin, November, 1929 for
the 1930 MGM movie Chasing Rainbows.
So long sad times, go long bad times,
Nosotros are rid of you at last
Hello gay times, cloudy gray times,
You lot are now a matter of the past
Happy days are here again,
The skies above are clear once again
And so, let us sing a song of cheer once more,
Happy days are here again
All together, shout information technology now,
At that place's no ane who can doubt it now,
Then let's tell the world almost information technology now,
Happy days are here again
Your cares and troubles are gone,
At that place'll be no more from now on, from at present on!
Happy days are here over again,
The skies to a higher place are clear again
So, let us sing a vocal 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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