Leo Reisman with Harold Arlen (author)
(#1 in 1933),
Ethel Waters (#1 in 1933),
Guy Lombardo (#2 in 1933),
Duke
Ellington (#4 in 1933),
Ted
Lewis (#6 in 1933),
Lena
Horne
Don't know why, There's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather, Since my gal 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 old self together
I'm weary all the time.
When she went away
The blues walked in and then they met me
If she stays away
That old rocking chair's bound to get me
All I do is pray
The lord above will let me
Just walk in that sun again
Can't go on, Everything I had is gone
Stormy Weather, Since my gal and I ain't together
Keeps raining all the time, Keeps raining all of the time
Ethel Waters knew she had a
great song to sing the minute she heard this tune. "When I got out
there in the middle of the Cotton Club floor... I was singing the story
of my misery and confusion... the story of the wrongs and outrages done
to me by people I had loved and trusted... I sang "Stormy Weather" from
the depths of my private hell in which I was being crushed and
suffocated. (The song was written for her, although other singers were
to become associated with it, including Lena Horne).