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"42nd Street" is the title song from the 1933 Warner Bros. backstage musical film 42nd Street, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1932. It is the finale of the film, where it was sung by Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and ensemble. It was used again in 1980 when the film was adapted as a long-running Broadway ...
42nd Street is a 1980 stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography and it became a long-running hit. The show was also produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for ...
The Stolen Sweets. Songwriter (s) Al Dubin. Harry Warren. "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" is a song written by Al Dubin and Harry Warren and introduced in the 1933 musical film 42nd Street, in which Ruby Keeler and Clarence Nordstrom sang and danced to it. Ginger Rogers, Una Merkel, and the Chorus [1] also performed it in the film.
42nd Street. (film) 42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars an ensemble cast of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers .
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) [ 1] was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and ...
Al Dubin. " Boulevard of Broken Dreams " is a 1933 hit song with lyrics by Al Dubin and music by Harry Warren. Deane Janis with Hal Kemp 's Orchestra recorded the original version on October 31, 1933, in Chicago, which was issued by Brunswick Records. [ 1] In 1934, a rendition sung by Constance Bennett appeared in the film Moulin Rouge, but was ...
The lyrics of the song were noted for its references to addiction. [3] It appears in the Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street, for which Warren and Dubin wrote three songs together. [2] The song was inspired by one of the women working at the Warner Brothers studio.
Annie Lennox recorded a cover of the song for her album Diva (1992). [ 3] While it does not appear in the original 1980 version, the song is used in act 1 for the 2001 Broadway revival of Warren and Dubin's 42nd Street. The cast recording is performed by Mary Testa, Jonathan Freeman, and the ensemble. The song was a favourite of Winston Churchill.