Recently, I was flipping TV channels and came across the classic movie Singin’ In The Rain. Though it’s more well known for its dance, the song made quite an impact as well.
The song “Singin’ In The Rain” was written in the late 1920s by Arthur Freed. Freed was a songwriter for many Hollywood movies. The music was done by Freed’s longtime collaborator Nacio Herb Brown.
The song’s first recorded performance was in 1929’s The Hollywood Music Box Revue. But the song came to prominence as the centerpiece of the musical movie of the same name, released in 1952. In addition to the legendary dance seen where Gene Kelly performs the song and trademark choreography, the song is also performed during the opening credits of the movie as well as towards the end by Debbie Reynolds.
The song has been recorded and sampled more times than can probably be imagined. One of my other favorite renditions came, for the Movies That Rock tribute, when Usher paid homage to Kelly by performing the song and choreography.
It’s one of those songs that when you hear it transports you to a different place inside your head. Whether it’s because of its notoriously different song structure making it stand out from the other songs you’ve been listening to or you start imagining the choreography as it plays, the song is a good mental reset button when your mind needs a break.
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