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Taking A Chance On Love (ver. 1) by Vernon Duke - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
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"Taking a Chance on Love" is a popular song by Vernon Duke with lyrics by John Latouche and Ted Fetter, published in 1940 (see 1940 in music), which has become a standard[1] recorded by many artists. It was introduced in the 1940 show Cabin in the Sky, a ground-breaking Broadway musical with an all black cast, where it was performed by Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson. The re-released Benny Goodman version featuring Helen Forrest reached #1 in 1943. The success of the song is largely due to the skillfully subtle lyrics, for example: Things are mending now I see a rainbow blending now We'll have a happy ending now Taking a chance on love which is not to overlook the tune with its skipping rhythm and upward motif representing happy optimism. Vernon Duke (10 October [O.S. 27 September] 1903 — January 16, 1969) was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Vernon Duke (10 October [O.S. 27 September] 1903 — January 16, 1969) was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y. ("Yip") Harburg (1932), and "What Is There To Say" for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934, also with Harburg. He wrote the words and music for "Autumn in New York" (1934). Vernon collaborated with lyricists such as Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn and his works have been performed and recorded by Tony Bennett, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra and Thelonious Monk.[1] Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky was born in 1903 into a noble family of mixed Georgian-Austrian-Spanish-Russian descent, in Parafianovka, Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire. The 1954 Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians referred to "one of his grandparents" (Princess Tumanishvili) as having been "directly descended from the kings of Georgia". His.
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