How well do you know your blues and jazz? Who wrote this song and who recorded it?

Oh every time it rains





It rains pennies from heaven





Don't you know each cloud contains





Pennies from heaven





You'll find your fortune





Fallin' all over town





Be sure that your umbrella is upside down





Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers





It you want the things you love





You must have showers





So when you hear it thunder





Don't run under a tree





There'll be pennies from heaven





For you and me











The world was bright when you loved me





Sweet was the touch of your lips





The world went dark when you left me





And then there came a total eclipse





Nobody knows how cruel fate can be





How close together love and can be





Goodbye, just clean the slate for me





That's life I guess

How well do you know your blues and jazz? Who wrote this song and who recorded it?
"Pennies From Heaven" was wrote by Arthur Johnson and Jonny Burke. It was originally sang by Bing Crosby, then Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and many others!
Reply:Well, the movie of the same name... "Pennies from Heaven".... was made by MGM in 1955 (MGM's first musical, got nominated for a 3 Oscars I think)). The song, "Pennies from Heaven", written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnson is heard several times in the film, including a rather obvious lip-synch job sung in reality by Arthur Tracy.





The answer to the question though: one of my favorite blues songs ever, "Pennies from Heaven" by Burke %26amp; Johnson, was recorded by one of the ultimate blues singers of all time, the immortal Billie Holiday. Other jazz/blues version were done by Louis Armstrong and other big band singers of the era.