Singin' in the Rain (song)

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown.

Doris Eaton Travis introduced the song on Broadway in The Hollywood Music Box Revue in 1929.

[4] The song is famously associated with the history of cinema, as it reached popularity during the transition from silent films to "talkies."

This resulted in a musical film of the same name, Singin' in the Rain (1952), which serves a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s.

It is performed on film by a nightclub band as dance music and sung in a Chinese dialect in The Ship from Shanghai (1930), by Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily (1932), by Judy Garland in Little Nellie Kelly (1940), and as background music at the beginning of MGM's The Divorcee (1930) starring Norma Shearer.

Three years later in 2008, due to the exposure of the song via the performance of then-unknown dancer George Sampson on the reality TV series Britain's Got Talent, the track went to No.

Charts A 1978 disco version of Singin' in the Rain by the French pop singer Sheila B.

Gene Kelly performing the song in the 1952 film Singin' in the Rain
Performance of the song at the end of The Hollywood Revue