Hooray for Hollywood!
Medleys
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Singing in the Rain
-1952/Title song/Gene Kelly-Debbie Reynolds-Donald O’Connor
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Louise
– 1929/Innocents of Paris-Maurice Chevalier
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Blue Skies
– 1927/The Jazz Singer/Al Jolson
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A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody – 1936/The Great Ziegfeld/William Powell
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Easter Parade
– 1948/Title Song/Judy Garland-Fred Astaire
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Alexander’s Ragtime Band – 1938/Title Song/Tyrone Power-Alice Faye-Don Ameche-Ethel
Merman
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Look for the Silver Lining – 1929/Sally/Marilyn Miller
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Make Believe
– 1936/Showboat/Irene Dunne/Helen Morgan
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On the Sunny Side of the Street – 1943/Is Everybody Happy?/Ted Lewis
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I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – 1940/Title Song/Broderick Crawford
Harry Warren – 12/24/1893 – 9/22/1981 (87)
He was the most prolific
composer for Hollywood movies/musicals! For many years he was the number#1
writer for Warner Brothers, won 3 academy awards and had 42 of his songs on Your
Hit Parade between 1935-1950.
(Off the Top) Medley
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Lulu’s Back in Town
– 1935/Broadway Gondolier/Dick Powell
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You Must have been a Beautiful Baby – 1938/Hard to Get/Dick Powell
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On the Atchison Topeka & the Santa Fe – 1946/The Harvey Girls/Judy Garland-Ray
Bolger(Academy Award Song)
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I Found a Million Dollar Baby – 1975/Funny lady/Barbra Streisand
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You’ll Never Know
– 1943/Hello Frisco Hello/ Alice Faye(Academy Award Song)
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That’s Amore’
– 1953/The Caddy/Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis(Academy Award Song)
Academy Award Songs
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Cheek to Cheek
– 1935/Top Hat/Irving Berlin
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They Can’t Take that Away from Me – 1937/Shall We Dance/Gershwins
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The Way You Look Tonight – 1936/Swing Time/Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields
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Over the Rainbow
– 1939/The Wizard of Oz/Harold Arlen-E.Y. Harburg
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Dolores
– 1941/Las Vegas Nights/Frank Loesser-Lou Alter
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Blues in the Night
– 1941/Title/ Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer
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Chattanooga Choo-Choo – 1941/Sun Valley Serenade/Harry
Warren-Mack Gordon
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Long Ago and Far Away – 1944/Cover Girl/Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin
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It Might as Well be Spring – 1945/State Fair/Rodgers & Hammerstein
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True Love
– 1956/High Society/Cole Porter
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All the way
– 1957/The Joker is Wild/ Jimmy Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn
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My Kind of Town
– 1964/Robin & the 7 Hoods/” “