“Stormy Weather“ - Lena Horne (1941)

Lena Horne (vocal) with Orchestra conducted by Lou Bring. Recorded in Hollywood on December 15th 1941. The song was written by Harold Arlen (music) and Ted Koehler (lyrics) and sung first in 1933 by Ethel Waters at The Cotton Night Club in Harlem. Recorded several times in 1933 (for example by Ethel Waters, Frances Langford, Leo Reisman with vocal by composer Harold Arlen himself - a hit recording, or the Comedian Harmonists), it soon became a pop and jazz standard, performed and recorded the following years by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson and many others. Lena Horne sang it two years after this recording in the 1943 MGM Musical-Picture “Stormy Weather“ - here’s the link to the gorgeous film-scene with her: This RCA VICTOR record is played on a Philips Radiogram from 1956!