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⭐ Happy Days Are Here Again! 1930, FDR Birthday Jan. 30, 1882
Last edited Tue Jan 30, 2024, 05:02 PM - Edit history (1)
- Song by Ben Selvin and the Crooners, 1930.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat, 4 time election winner for US president, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944. Leading this nation through the Great Depression and the Second World War. Truly 'Making America Great Again.'
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- On this day, Jan. 30, 1882, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. Roosevelt played Caesar with Eleanor, friends & aides at his private 1934 birthday toga party upstairs at White House:...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11634430
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- Happy Days Are Here Again, Wiki - Ed.
"Happy Days Are Here Again" is a 1929 song with music by Milton Ager and lyrics by Jack Yellen. The song is a standard that has been interpreted by various artists. It appeared in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows, and was the campaign song for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 presidential campaign.
It is the unofficial anthem of Roosevelt's Democratic Party.
The song is number 47 on the Recording Industry Association of America's list of "Songs of the Century". The song was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a "pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great War (WWI) Armistice show-within-a-show backdrop".
🎩 In popular culture: Closely associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt's successful presidential campaign in 1932, the song gained prominence after a spontaneous decision by Roosevelt's advisers to play it at the 1932 Democratic National Convention.
After a dirge-like version of Roosevelt's favorite song "Anchors Aweigh" had been repeated over and over, without enthusiasm, a participant reportedly shouted: "FOR GOD'S SAKE, HAVE THEM PLAY SOMETHING ELSE", which caused the band to play the new song, drawing cheers and applause, and subsequently becoming the Democratic Party's "unofficial theme song for years to come."
🍻 The song is also associated with the Repeal of Prohibition, which occurred shortly after Roosevelt's election where there were signs saying "Happy days are beer again" and so on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days_Are_Here_Again
