Скачать или смотреть George Olsen - Blue Skies 1927 (Bob Borger, Fran Frey & Bob Rice, Vocals (Irving Berlin)

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Recorded 1/19/1927 New York, New York.
George Olsen and his Music (Musical group)
Bob Borger (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Fran Frey (vocalist : baritone vocal)
Bob Rice (vocalist : baritone vocal)
George Olsen (director)
Irving Berlin (composer)
Irving Berlin (lyricist)

"Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926.

"Blue Skies" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "Bluebirds singing a song/Nothing but bluebirds all day long." The sunny optimism of the lyrics are undercut by the minor key giving the words an ironic feeling.

The song was composed in 1926 as a last-minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical Betsy. Although the show ran for only 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of the piece from star Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front row.

George Edward Olsen Sr. (March 18, 1893 – March 18, 1971) was an American musician and bandleader.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Olsen's orchestra's debut hotel engagement came at the Multnomah Hotel in Portland. He then made the cross-county transition to Broadway, appearing in Kid Boots (1923), the Ziegfeld Follies of 1924, Ziegfeld Follies of 1925, and Good News (1927).

George Olsen and his orchestra were in Eddie Cantor's 1928 Broadway hit Whoopee!, and in the 1930 movie version. In the Follies George met a singer, Ethel Shutta, who sings and dances memorably in Whoopee!, and they married, appearing together in nightclubs and on radio. They had two children, George Jr. and Charles; following a divorce, Olsen opened a restaurant in Paramus, New Jersey. Olsen and Shutta were heard on the Oldsmobile Program on CBS radio in 1933. He also was an orchestra leader for The Jack Benny Program on radio.