A Great Day For The Irish
A Great Day For The Irish Its a great day for the Irish is a great day for Ireland is an Irish-American song that was written in 1940 by Roger Edens, one of the music directors in many Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios under the direction of Arthur Freed for inclusion in the film version of George M. Cohan 1922 Broadway Little Nellie Kelly, directed by Norman Taurog. The rights of the series have been sold to MGM for Cohan as a vehicle for young Judy Garland. The song was written in part to take advantage of Garland Irish roots, which identified (Garland was an Irish neighborhood of his maternal grandmother Eva Fitzpatrick). The new song should be used in a recreation of the march in the city of New York s annual parade St. Patrick’s Day on Fifth Avenue. It takes a number of major production requiring the lot on the street in New York was placed in the broader, with the participation of the main characters in the film and the presentation of the young Judy Garland.
Roger Edens
Roger Edens (November 9, 1905, Hillsboro, Texas – July 13, 1970 in Hollywood) was a Hollywood composer, arranger, and combined with the producer, and is considered one of the most important creative musical film production unit of Arthur Freed of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the golden age of Hollywood. Edens parents were Irish and Scottish ancestry. He worked as a pianist and ballroom dancer before going to work as musical director on Broadway. He went to Hollywood in 1933 to write special material for Ethel Merman Paramount Pictures. In 1935 he joined MGM as a musical director and occasional composer, arranger and music, especially Judy Garland.He also appeared on screen opposite Eleanor Powell in a cameo Broadway Melody of 1936. Arthur Freed, producer of musicals at MGM, was impressed by Eden and soon made him part of his production team, which was growing and characterized several of the greatest talents recruited by Freed himself. Freed has built a cabinet around him, and in the early 1940s made Eden co-produced. The unit provides dozens of popular and successful musicals of the 1940s and in.