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Lena Horne recorded the song in 1941 for RCA Victor. In 1943, she recorded another version for the movie Stormy Weather. She recorded the song at least five times throughout her career, including for the 1957 album Stormy Weather. Her original 1941 version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000.
Learn about the pop standard song "Stormy Weather" by Lena Horne, written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler in 1933. Find out how she sang it in 1941 and 1943, and why it became her signature tune. Discover the lyrics, the music, the cover versions, and the history of this classic weather metaphor song.
Stormy Weather: Directed by Andrew L. Stone. With Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe. The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Stormy Weather Lyrics: Don't know why / There's no sun up in the sky / Stormy weather / Since my man and I ain't together / Keeps rainin' all the time / Life is bare / Gloom and misery...
