" Hooray for Love" Arlen teams with Leo Robin on the film " Casbah" In 1948, Universal Pictures produced a film based on an earlier French Film Pepe Le Moko.. It was a story about a romantic criminal who eventually sacrificed himself for the love of a woman. Pepe was played by Tony Martin, a fine singer with limited movie experience. Arlen found Leo Robin to be a sensitive and serious lyricist. The team produced several fine song for a movie that was not a box office hit with Hooray For Love being the best known song which is usually performed now as an up-tempo number.
Ella Fitzgerald completed a number of composer songbooks, including Jerome Kern , Gershwin, Cole Porter., Rodgers & Hart. Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington and this one featuring Harold Arlen's compositions.
Here Ella is backed by Billy May, master of the swinging big band sound and this is a bright affirmation on the joys of love, about which we should all shout " Hooray."
There is a tidy verse intro before the main chorus instantly shouts " Hooray, Hooray , Hooray for Love, Who was ever too blasé for love?"
LINK http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZASr4ox8ac
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