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This version is sung by Ruby Keeler
The Finale of Forty-Second Street is Buxby Berkely's treatment of the title song. Warren's staccato melody provides a perfect basis for tap dancing and rapidly switching camera angles. Ruby Keeler's dancing feet hammer out the message of jazzy night life in mid-Manhattan, and the chorus declaims "a rhapsody of laughter and tears" and the glory of the big parade that goes on for years. What looks like the skyline of New York bursts into squads of dancers, each manipulating a cardboard cutout of a skyscraper, and the number ends with a swift pan to the top of a building, where Dick Powell and Ruby beam with satisfaction. Audiences seeing the picture in 1933 could hardly fail to be aware that this was a breakthrough in the presentation of song and dance on the screen.
Credit Tony Thomas-The Hollywood Musical-Citadel Press

Songwriters: Harry Warren, Al Dubin

Show(s)

Forty-Second Street (1980)
Cast Album : RCA Performer(s): Wanda Richert, Lee Roy Reams

Movie(s)

Forty-Second Street (Warner Bros. Pictures : 1933)
Performer(s): Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

US Hit Record(s)

Don Bestor And His Orchestra - (Victor Records : 1933) - (# 1 Pop 1933)
Skinnay Ennis, Hal Kemp And His Orchestra - (Brunswick Records : 1933) - (# 7 Pop 1933)

Other Recording(s)

The Boswell Sisters - (Brunswick Records)
Mitch Miller Gang - (Columbia Records)
Gus Farney - (Warner Bros. Records)
Norrie Paramor And His Orchestra - (EMI Records Group North America)
Dancin' Machine - (United Artists Records)
Tommy Kinsman And His Orchestra - (Fontana Records)
The Dick Hyman Trio
Hal Kemp And His Orchestra
Ellis Larkins