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(Victor 24262)
Recorded 2/28/1933 New York, New York. Studio 2.
Cotton Club parade (Work title)
Leo Reisman Orchestra (Musical group)
Harold Arlen (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Leo Reisman (director)
Jesse Smith (director)
Harold Arlen (composer)
Ted Koehler (lyricist)

"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. Also in 1933, for the first time the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities. The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to Stormy Weather Revue; it contained the song "Stormy Weather", which was sung by Adelaide Hall.