(Stormy Weather) Keeps Rainin' All The Time
music by harry arlen / lyrics by ted koehler
(STORMY WEATHER) KEEPS RAININ' ALL THE TIME  -  sung by GERTRUDE NIESEN
KEEP'S RAININ' ALL THE TIME    (SCREEN SONGS)   1934
Harry Arlen and Ted Koehler's popular jazz standard Stormy Weather - also known as Keep's Raining All The Time - is a 1933 torch song first performed by Ethel Waters at Harlem's Cotton Club night club. She recorded the song later that year, as did several other popular performers. Also in 1933, the Cotton Club sent their entire floor revue on a tour to various cities, the tour was billed as The Cotton Club Parade of 1933. Because of the popularity of the song - performed on tour by Adelaide Hall - the tour's name was changed to The Stormy Weather Revue. On January 12th, 1934 the Fleischer Studio's Screen Song's installment featuring the song was released, with the song performed by musical newcomer Gertrude Niesen. In 2003, the Ethel Water's recording of Stormy Weather was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame, and in 2004 it was added to The Library Of Congress' National Recording Registry. The song's composer Harry Arlen wrote over 500 songs, including the music for The Wizard Of Oz, which featured the number 1 song of the 20th century - Over the Rainbow. 
1933

ETHEL
​WATERS
1933

GUY
LOMBARDO
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
1933

​LEO
REISMAN
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
1933

AMBROSE
AND HIS
​ORCHESTRA
1933

HAROLD
ARLEN
1933

BOB CAUSER
​CORNELLIANS
1933

COMEDIAN
HARMONISTS
(GERMAN
​VERSION)
​
193?

ART
​TATUM
19??

DJANGO
​REINHARDT
1943

LENA
​HORNE
1951

THE
FOUR
​FRESHMEN
1952

BILLY
HOLIDAY
1959

CAB
​CALLOWAY
1959
​
FRANK
​SINATRA
1960

BETTY
​CARTER
1961

ETTA
​JAMES
1961

ELLA
​FITZGERALD
1961

JACKIE
​WILSON
1963

LOUIS PRIMA
​KEELY SMITH
19??

KEELEY
​SMITH
19??

THE
KNOCKOUTS
1965

THE
​GANTS
1967

ROY
​CASTLE
1968

B.B.
​KING
1969

LOU
​RAWLS
1969

KAY
​STARR
1970

LIZA
​MINNELLI
1975

ELLA
​FITZGERALD
1975

PASADENA
RED ROOF
ORCHESTRA
19??

DEBBIE
​HARRY
1993

ANITA
​BAKER
19??

​BILLIE
McCARTHY
1999

LILY WILDE
AND HER
JUMPIN'
JUBILEE
​ORCHESTRA
2004

WILLIE
NELSON
& SHELBY
LYNNE
2015

REBECCA
​FERGUSON
2005

THE
PASADENA
ROOF
​ORCHESTRA
(STORMY WEATHER) IT KEEPS RAININ' ALL THE TIME

Don't know why
There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poor self together
I'm weary all the time, the time
So weary all of the time

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time
Keeps raining all of the time

I walk around,
Heavy-hearted and sad
Night comes around
And I'm still feeling bad
Rain pourin' down
Blinding every hope I had
This pitter 'n patter 'n beatin' 'n spatterin' drivin' me mad

Love, love, love, love
This misery will be the end of me

(bridge)

When he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away, old rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can't go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, the time
​Keeps raining all the time
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