London 1933: Jack Payne's Band - Stormy Weather

Jack Payne and His Orchestra – Stormy Weather, Fox-Trot (Arlen-Koehler) from Film “Cotton Club Revue of the 1933”, Imperial 1933 (UK)

NOTE: "Stormy Weather" is a 1933 song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford. The Cotton Club revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but regarding the song’s popularity, the title was changed to the Stormy Weather Revue and the song was sung by Adelaide Hall. The Cotton Club Parade 1933 was also filmed and released abroad. I later years, the song was performed by such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and most famously, by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday. Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records (with Arlen himself as vocalist). Here, the hit is performed by Jack Payne - one of the most popular dance bands of the British Big Bands era.