Lawrence Welk Show - George Cates & Orchestra with flutes [still no flute emoji] & accordion 🎹 - "Dancing in the Dark" https://t.co/TcrzMji4s1 pic.twitter.com/FTQH7gq1WI— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
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Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire Band Wagon - Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz Dancing In The Dark de MGM Studio https://t.co/m9XpFrI6D2 pic.twitter.com/wzgf19HpMQ— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
Fortunes of War - Romania: January 1940 E2 - Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh https://t.co/wkVdox1XPF— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
"Dancing in the Dark"https://t.co/1MjGiz7fGQ pic.twitter.com/UmxrcaZLFC
"Dancing in the Dark [From the Bandwagon] Lyrics." Lyrics.com.STANDS4 LLC, 2018. Web. 19 Nov. 2018. <https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/2839190/Fred+Astaire>.
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"Dancing in the Dark" is played in the background of this #FortunesOfWar scene where British ex pats are given the news that Germany had captured Paris pic.twitter.com/fdoY05DVxx— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
wrt to Paris falling to the Germans during WWII - allegedly Oscar Hammerstein II wrote "The Last Time I Saw Paris" as a cathartic release over the depressing news pic.twitter.com/czCgWawiRZ— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
Narrator: Another stand out of the film ["Till the Clouds Roll By."] is Dinah Shore's haunting rendition of "The Last Time I Saw Paris."
When Paris fell, Oscar [ Hammerstein ] was so devastated, that he sat down and wrote this poem and he then gave that to Jerry [ Jerome Kern ] who set it to a melody. Without any idea....this was not intended for a show or a movie.
Sherman: It's about Paris....and Paris had just fallen. The year was 1940. June, 1940. So Kern read the lyrics and said, "Yeah, let's see what I can do." The next day he called him up and he said, "Oscar, I want you to hear something." And he sang it over the telephone. It's one of the greatest, most moving songs I've ever heard. Of course, it was incredible. They had to put it in a movie and it won the Academy Award.
Narrator: The movie was 1941 "Lady Be Good"
First time a song that they wrote which wasn't written for anything [i.e. a trunk song] won an Academy Award.
Jerome Kern was thrilled. It was an excuse to come back to Broadway on top.
The first day he got to New York, he left the hotel and he walked down Park Avenue.
He loved to collect antique books and he went to one store and he collapsed in the street.
The Last Time I Saw Paris, by Dinah Shore from "That's Entertainment!" https://t.co/WniZZGgGYF pic.twitter.com/hPFp7WI5lP— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) November 19, 2018
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Gene Kelly: You know, I guess more songs have been written about Paris than any other city. One of the loveliest and most poignant was by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Dinah Shore sings it in "Till the Clouds Roll By."
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#TheLawrenceWelkShow's Bobby Burgess & Cissy King perform Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz 's "Dancing in the Dark"— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) January 10, 2019
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The @MeTV precursor to Charlie's Angels @CharliesAngels has an evil gigolo / extortion artist / sexual assaulter attack women whilst playing Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz 's "Dancing in the Dark" 💃🕺🌃 on his tape recorder 📼https://t.co/fXbCTMfoRV pic.twitter.com/tddZ3k6i1Z— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) October 21, 2019
Then in homage to #JoeBidensRecordPlayer 💿the evil gigolo 's dance studio plays Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz 's "Dancing in the Dark" 💃🕺🌃 on the phonograph machine https://t.co/CCXhGYAkgE pic.twitter.com/qHmnB6gBSr— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) October 21, 2019
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