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I'm Always Chasing Rainbows

Written: 1918

Music by: Harry Carroll
(based on a melody by Chopin)

Words by: Joseph McCarthy

Written for: Oh, Look!
(show, 1918)
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Mandy Patinkin

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"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"

on Live with Regis [Philbin] and Kathie Lee [Gifford],
television show--possibly the June 4, 1991 episode

Patinkin's rendition of this song is included on his album
Dress Casual.

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About the Show Oh, Look! / Origins of the Song

Other songs written for the show Oh, Look! currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.

 

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Research Resources:
Harry Carroll
Harry Carroll research resources on the web (listed alphabetically by web source):
born November 28, 1892, Atlantic City, New Jersey (US) - died December 26, 1962, Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania (US) (composer, arranger, pianist)
  • DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
  • Internet Broadway Database (Broadway production song credits)
  • Internet Movie Database (brief bio and movie song credits)
  • MaeWest.blogspot.com (Notes on a young Mae West and Carroll, including background on Carroll, Dec. 26, 2010)
  • New York Public Library catalog entries for books, recordings, sheet music, etc.)
  • The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
  • ParlorSongs.com ("Stormy Weather: Tin Pan Alley Celebrates the Weather." May, 2007 (includes small article on Harry Carroll and Ballard McDonald song "Rain with the Sunshine" plus Carroll biography.)
  • Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
  • Wikipedia (Carroll article)
  • Yale University Library (American Musical Theater Collection Gilmore Music Library, Yale University, 2010 -- "Harry Carroll and Joseph McCarthy 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows' Based on Chopin's 'Fantasie-Impromptu Op. 66' -- (notes on how Carroll adapted Chopin for the song)
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