Favorite Songs From Movies: I Got Rhythm
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86892)
United States
March 6, 2023 10:41am CST
I got electricity, I got a warm house, I got another song for the monthlong list of favorites that came from movies to spring on you. Who could ask for anything more???? 
Here’s today’s tune.
I Got Rhythm - Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey with Mickey Rooney
Ethel Merman originated this song on Broadway in Girl Crazy in 1930. After the advent of talkies, the film Girl Crazy brought the song to the big screen. That proved to be a popular movie, as it was remade in 1943 with Judy Garland.
The song, however, has a life of its own. It’s an American classic, and the list of people who’ve done it is long. Heck, Merman even re-did it on a disco album in the late 70s! 
A group called the Happenings had a top five hit with the song in the 60s.
Girl Crazy isn’t the only movie that utilized the song. There’s a marvelous scene in An American in Paris where Gene Kelly sings and dances while entertaining a group of children. It was also in Mr. Holland’s Opus.
What a classic!
I Got Rhythm
Written by George and Ira Gershwin
Recorded by Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey with Mickey Rooney
From Girl Crazy, 1943
(Also in Girl Crazy, 1932 and An American in Paris, 1951)
Old man trouble, I don’t mind him:
Here’s today’s tune.
I Got Rhythm - Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey with Mickey Rooney
Ethel Merman originated this song on Broadway in Girl Crazy in 1930. After the advent of talkies, the film Girl Crazy brought the song to the big screen. That proved to be a popular movie, as it was remade in 1943 with Judy Garland.
The song, however, has a life of its own. It’s an American classic, and the list of people who’ve done it is long. Heck, Merman even re-did it on a disco album in the late 70s! A group called the Happenings had a top five hit with the song in the 60s.
Girl Crazy isn’t the only movie that utilized the song. There’s a marvelous scene in An American in Paris where Gene Kelly sings and dances while entertaining a group of children. It was also in Mr. Holland’s Opus.
What a classic!
I Got Rhythm
Written by George and Ira Gershwin
Recorded by Judy Garland and Tommy Dorsey with Mickey Rooney
From Girl Crazy, 1943
(Also in Girl Crazy, 1932 and An American in Paris, 1951)
Old man trouble, I don’t mind him:
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
6 Mar 23
Ethel was more of a punch line in the 80s like in Good Morning, Vietnam or Airplane! 2.
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
6 Mar 23
I’d see him on talk shows then in an old movie and think, wow, he was really that young once?!
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
Just don’t listen to Ethel Merman while you’re recovering from stomach flu!
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
@TheHorse — I think that’ll hurt your mental state more than your physical state, although it certainly won’t help your stomach.
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@TheHorse (238370)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Mar 23
@FourWalls Noted. Maybe I'll go watch a video about how Trump's day was today. I was out of that loop. Wait...
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
See? I’m not totally out in left field. Just 96% of the time.
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@TheHorse (238370)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Mar 23
@FourWalls Judy Garland was a good singer! I didn't follower her (before my time) career, though.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
7 Mar 23
Hearing Ethel sing always made me want to cover my ears. The Gene Kelly version was great.
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
That line Robin Williams had in Good Morning, Vietnam about the US using Ethel to jam Russian radars is a riot.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
7 Mar 23
@FourWalls I'd forgotten that one, but it fits. Great line.
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
6 Mar 23
Never heard it myself, but then I haven’t been to a movie since 1987.
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@aureliah (24687)
• Kenya
26 Apr 23
@FourWalls Wow. for over 3 decades! thats such a long time
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
See? You need to send that down to New Jersey for NJ Chic. 
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@RasmaSandra (98127)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Mar 23
I love many of Judy Garland's musicals and have quite a video collection of them, Don't have this but ldo love that song and rhythm,
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
6 Mar 23
I went with this version although I love Gene Kelly’s rendition in An American in Paris as well.
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
Very thankful as well! Thanks for your concern and prayers!
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
6 Mar 23
Thanks for sloping. Let’s see if you slope tomorrow.
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@LindaOHio (222898)
• United States
7 Mar 23
I got my man, who could ask for anything more.....of course I know this one!!!
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
7 Mar 23
Awrite! I can tell you’re enjoying this countdown! 
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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25 Mar 23
The Happenings oh yes, I remember their version!!! Quite a different take on that song than the Merm's version, lol. Always enjoyed their song "See You in September." The vocals have a sort of Four Seasons feel to it for me.
Anyway, that's one thumbs up pick
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@FourWalls (86892)
• United States
25 Mar 23
Never know what I’ll pick, which is part of the fun.
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