Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather is a jazz standard from 1933, written by Harold Arlen (music) and Ted Koehler (text). It was performed by numerous musicians, first by Ethel Waters with the orchestra of Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club in Harlem . It is a sad song about the separation of a loved one.

Arlen and Koehler worked at that time at the Cotton Club, where she wrote for two shows a year songs. The song was written in less than 30 minutes for singer and bandleader Cab Calloway . This year turned out however that did not play in the revue, his place would be taken by the band of Ellington. Looking for someone who could sing, they found Ethel Waters who had just returned to New York. Her recording of the song, in 1933, was in the 2003 Grammy Hall of Fame included. But it was not the first recording: Arlen sang it himself with the orchestra of Leo Reisman and this recording was then the biggest hit.

Afterwards many have performed the song and put on plate. Some names: In January 2011 plunged handwritten lyrics of the song on the American version of the 'Antiques Roadshow' and was there with a painting by Koehler, appraised at a value of 50,000 to 100,000 dollars .
 * The Dorsey Brothers with Ethel Waters as a singer (1933)
 * Duke Ellington took an instrumental version and a version with vocalist Ivie Anderson (1933).
 * Lena Horne took no less than five times. Her version was recorded in 2000 in the Grammy Hall of Fame. She sang the song in the movie from 1943.
 * Frank Sinatra has put on the plate three times, including in the autumnal album "No One Cares" (1959)
 * Ella Fitzgerald 's version can be found on "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook '
 * Billie Holiday recorded the song in 1952
 * Judy Garland took it into the studio and there is a live version of "Judy at Carnegie Hall '
 * Django Reinhardt also made ​​a recording, found on "Keep Cool: Guitar Solos (1950-1953) '
 * Toots Thielemans recorded it with Oleta Adams (on the CD "One More for the Road", 2006)