Johnny Marvin - Happy Days Are Here Again 1929 Jack Yellen & Milton Ager “Chasing Rainbows“

(Victor) Recorded 10/23/1929 New York, New York. Jack Yellen (lyricist) Milton Ager (composer) Johnny Marvin (vocalist : tenor vocal) Leonard W. Joy (director) “Happy Days Are Here Again“ is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics). It was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a “pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great War Armistice show-within-a-show backdrop“. This early example of two-strip Technicolor footage was, along with another Technicolor sequence, later cut from the 1931 re-edited release of the otherwise black-and-white film, and is believed to have been lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire. Today, the song is usually remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s successful 1932 presidential campaign. According to Time magazine, it gained prominence after a spontaneous decision by Rooseve