1st RECORDING OF: Singin’ In The Rain - The Rounders (1929)

23 years before MGM would release its classic 1952 film “Singin’ In The Rain,” that title song had reigned as one of the last major hit tunes of the Roaring 20s. Cliff “Ukulele Ike” Edwards made it famous on record    • 1929 HITS ARCHIVE: Singin’ In The Rain - C...   and introduced it on-screen in the early musical “The Hollywood Revue Of 1929,” but this version by a male vocal quintet with piano accompaniment was the earliest recorded version.

Vocalists: Dudley B. Chambers, Norman Bennett, Richart C. Hartt, Armand Girard, Paul Reese

The original 78rpm single was issued on Victor 22002 - Singin’ In The Rain (Arthur Freed-Nacio Herb Brown) by The Rounders, piano by William Cowles, session supervised by Leroy Shield, recorded at the Hal Roach Studios, Culver City CA, April 26, 1929

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