Elaine Ryan Ian McLellan Hunter Johnny Mercer (contributor) Ben Hecht (uncredited)
Produced by
Boris Morros
Starring
Paulette Goddard Fred Astaire
Cinematography
Theodor Sparkuhl
Edited by
Jack Dennis
Music by
Artie Shaw Hal Borne Johnny Mercer
Production company
Paramount Pictures
Release date
December 3, 1940 (1940-12-03) (U.S.)
Running time
84 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire and Burgess MeredithAstaire and Goddard in "I Ain't Hep To That Step But I'll Dig It"Artie Shaw in the "Concerto for Clarinet"Fred Astaire dance-conducting the Artie Shaw Orchestra
Second Chorus is a 1940 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Paulette Goddard and Fred Astaire and featuring Artie Shaw, Burgess Meredith and Charles Butterworth, with music by Artie Shaw, Bernie Hanighen and Hal Borne, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The film was directed by H. C. Potter and produced independently for Paramount Pictures by Boris Morros, with associate producers Robert Stillman and (uncredited) Fred Astaire.[2] The film's copyright expired in 1968 and it is now in the public domain.[3]
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^Simosko, Vladimir (2000). Artie Shaw: A Musical Biography and Discography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810833975.page 89
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the second. He then spliced the versions, starting the orchestral score in the middle of the secondchorus. Since take 7 did not include a chorus after...
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the intro, timing of vocal entrances on the chorus, and location names between the first and secondchorus. LeDoux's version was released as a single the...
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the British Royal National Theatre in London in 1973, incorporating a secondchorus of slaves to mirror the civil unrest in his native Nigeria. Caryl Churchill...
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song is in the key of F# minor and features a guitar solo after the secondchorus which is played by guitarist Steve Lukather featuring several techniques...
of the original chord pattern. After the secondchorus, the third verse consists of two lines before the chorus is sung a third time. The song ends with...
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