Taking A Chance On Love - Ethel Waters

From the film
CABIN IN THE SKY © 1943

Performed by Ethel Waters with Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Music ~ Vernon Duke
Lyrics ~ John LaTouche & Ted Fetter

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ethel Waters
• Eddie Rochester Anderson
• Cabin in the Sky
• Vincente Minnelli

[tbfetter]

LOVE this song. Of course, I'm biased - my grandfather Ted Fetter wrote the lyrics. But it's such a thoughtful, catchy tune that has stood the test of time.

[begrievingsnow]

this movie was so amazing...i was left speechless, full of those good, even great things you get when in love. and when i hear this song and 'happiness is just a thing called joe', i loose myself to that feelings again. <3

i get all bashful. :D

[MrHumbles]

Such great lyrics squeezed perfectly into so few syllables per line. Such a beautiful, mournful tune in a major key i dont think anyone has ever wanted to play it fast. I'm bashful, too, because i only just found out now that Vernon Duke was in with Prokofiev and Diaghilev, was a Belorussian, and continually made (reputedly direct and ttuneful) "classical" music under his real name Dukelsky ! Thanks wiki, thanks to you soo much for uploading the original version !

[hazedus]

Ted Fetter is often credited as co-lyricist, but in fact he had written an earlier lyric for this song which Duke had dug out of the proverbial trunk and for which Latouche supplied a new lyric. In his book The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia, Thomas S. Hischak says, “[Duke] and lyricist Ted Fetter had written a number called ‘Fooling Around with Love’ years before, but for the ‘Negro fable’ Cabin in the Sky lyricist John Latouche revised it into the sterling song known today.

[teenabnah]

im just in love with this music...yes..it makes me feel bashful too

[mylearningchannel1]

Did he just MOON WALK at 3:00???

[LoliLoli83]

When entertainment was ENTERTAINMENT!!!!

[Wolverine49456]

I agree, it's a great song sung by a true legend in a wonderful movie

[sdh74]

As part of my introduction to songs on Sunday morning, I am going to whistle as I play the organ before I bring the choir or the soloist . . . #BringinItBack

[ChristophePhilippe]

How much would you pay to have been in that first night audience in 1940?

[upphetsade]

The tap dancer is Bill Bailey.