Great Day
Titel
Great Day
Text & Musik
Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose & Vincent Youmans
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Das Songwriter-Team Youmans, Rose und Eliscu schrieb "Great Day" für das gleichnamige Musical, zu dem sie auch die Songs "More Than You Know", "Happy Because I'm in Love" und "Without a Song" beisteuerten. Vorgestellt wurde der Song im Musical, das seine Uraufführung am 17. Oktober 1929 im New Yorker Cosmopolitan Theatre hatte, von den Russell Wooding's Jubilee Singers. Populär war Great Day als „Hymne auf die Kraft des positiven Denkens“ vor allem in den Depressionsjahren; eine Zeile des Liedtexts lautete: „When you're down and out, lift up your head and shout There's gonna be a great day“.
Sinatra sang den Song, jeweils im Radio, am 21.03.1945 in der "The Frank Sinatra Show", am 26.12.1945 und am 16.10.1946 in Songs By Sinatra", am 27.10.1947 in"Hollywood Here’s To Veterans #78", am 08.11.1947 in Your Hit Parade" und am 04.03.1948 in "Red Cross Time #4".
2015 wurde eine Radiofassung auf dem Columbia-Box-Set "Frank Sinatra: A Voice On Air (1935-1955)" veröffentlicht!
Im TV sang Sinatra "Great Day" außerdem am 01.01.1952 in The Frank Sinatra Show, am 03.11.1959 in "Hollywood Ford’s Star Time" und am 09.12.1962 in The Dinah Shore Show".
© Andreas Kroniger, Sinatra - The Main Event
Main Event Infos (English version)
The song "Great Day" was composed by the songwriting team of Youmans, Rose, and Eliscu for a musical bearing the same name. They also contributed other songs to the musical, including "More Than You Know", "Happy Because I'm in Love", and "Without a Song". The musical premiered on October 17, 1929, at the Cosmopolitan Theater in New York, with "Great Day" being introduced by Russell Wooding's Jubilee Singers. The song gained popularity as a "hymn to the power of positive thinking", particularly during the Depression years. One memorable line from the lyrics is: "When you're down and out, lift up your head and shout There's gonna be a great day".
Frank Sinatra performed the song on several occasions. He sang it on the radio on March 21, 1945, during "The Frank Sinatra Show", on December 26, 1945, and October 16, 1946, during "Songs By Sinatra", on October 27, 1947, during "Hollywood Here's To Veterans #78", on November 8, 1947, during "Your Hit Parade", and on March 4, 1948, during "Red Cross Time #4".
In 2015, a radio version of this song was included in the Columbia box set "Frank Sinatra: A Voice On Air (1935-1955)".
Sinatra also performed "Great Day" on television on January 1, 1952, during The Frank Sinatra Show, on November 3, 1959, during "Hollywood Ford's Star Time", and on December 9, 1962, during The Dinah Shore Show.
© Andreas Kroniger, Sinatra - The Main Event