Talk:Stormy Weather (song)

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On 27 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song). The result of the discussion was not moved.

Also a Yacht by the name Stormy Weather[edit]

"Patterned after Dorade but with two feet additional beam, Stormy Weather's final form was the result of intensive tank testing with models. After an unimpressive finish in the 1934 Bermuda Race, her international career took off with back-to-back Trans-Atlantic and Fastnet victories in 1935 (both skippered by Rod Stephens). Stormy Weather proved to be a wonderfully comfortable ocean cruiser; the installation of a navigator's compartment at the foot of the companionway was but one idea that made her such a convenient and pleasant vessel. In the view of at least one expert (rival naval architect John Alden), "a better design would be impossible to achieve!" from S&S website. Gregorydavid 14:55, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Possibly"[edit]

I removed the following from the article:

The title was (possibly) taken from the name of a yacht: "Stormy Weather".

Encyclopedias do not contain unreferenced statements that are "possibly" true. If anyone can provide any kind of reference on discussion of this then it'd be great for the article. --Col.Kiwi 05:03, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Homages[edit]

Does anyone know if the song My Melancholy Blues by the band Queen is somewhat inspired by Stormy Weather? Cause it has the line "Don't try to stop me, cause I'm heading for that stormy weather soon". 24.189.90.68 (talk) 08:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fats Comet Cover[edit]

I imagine this article isn't much followed. I removed the section "Fats Comet cover", a cover by a minor short term band with a short playlist ("Google it").

It took some kind of chutzpah for a user, even a long-term user, to add a big section lauding a minor band to the Wikipedia page for a famous song covered by many famous artists. -- Cecropia (talk) 16:43, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

many many covers[edit]

SecondHandSongs lists over 500 covers of Stormy Weather, many with free audio versions on YouTube or Spotify.^[1] Some of these must be worthy of inclusion in the list at Stormy Weather (song)#Notable recordings. That site also includes "Leo Reisman's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records (with Arlen himself as vocalist)", and an Ethel Waters' 1933 version.^[2]

References

Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 01:30, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 27 February 2024[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. – robertsky (talk) 14:22, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stormy Weather (song) → Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song) – Dab from Stormy Weather (Echo & the Bunnymen song) and five other songs at Stormy Weather (disambiguation)#Music. Also fine with Stormy Weather (1933 song) - it's unclear to me whether the relevant clause from WP:SONGDAB about old songs applies here * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:35, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Stormy Weather (song) → Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song). Stormy Weather (song) represents incomplete disambiguation and should redirect to the Stormy Weather#Songs disambiguation page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 17:38, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:PDABPRIMARY. Stormy Weather (song) has a ~59:1 pageview ratio with Stormy Weather (Echo & the Bunnymen song). JohnCWiesenthal (talk) 07:05, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per WP:RECOGNIZE and WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There are only two songs on WP and this one is obviously the one almost everyone is looking for (pageviews). The proposed title would do nothing except make the article people want harder to find. There's already a hatnote for the tiny minority who wind up on this article by mistake. If it wasn't for the film, this would easily be the primary topic for plain Stormy Weather. Station1 (talk) 04:09, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

[1] Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)

[2] Ethel Waters; Reisman with Arlen<

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