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 pulloutallthestops Technicolor finale, against a Great War Armistice showwithinashow backdrop. This early example of twostrip Technicolor footage was, along with another Technicolor sequence, later cut from the 1931 reedited release of the otherwise blackandwhite 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