Hooray for Love
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"Hooray for Love" is a song title that appears on two separate songs. The earlier song was composed by Jimmy McHugh
Jimmy McHugh
James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...

, lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...

, for a 1935 RKO-Radio
RKO Pictures
RKO Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chains and Joseph P...

 movie (starring Fats Waller
Fats Waller
Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...

) of the same title.

The second song was composed by Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...

, with lyrics by Leo Robin
Leo Robin
Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...

. It was written for the 1948 film Casbah
Casbah (film)
Casbah is a musical film directed by John Berry, starring Yvonne DeCarlo and Tony Martin, and released by Universal Studios.-Plot:...

. Tony Martin had the nationally charted version. The song was used in a 1990s campaign for ABC-TVs daytime programming.

Hooray is also a Korean drama that has started in the year 2011. It is planned to be 50 episodes.

Cast

  • Lee Bo Young as Kang Jae Mi
  • Lee Tae Sung as Byun Dong Woo
  • Jin Yi Han as Han Jung Soo
  • Chun Ho Jin as Kang Hyung Do
  • Bae Jong Ok as Oh Jung Hee
  • Byun Jung Soo as Byun Joo Ri
  • Yoon Hyun Sook as Oh Jung Shim
  • Han Yeo Reum as Chae Hee Joo
  • Ahn Sang Tae (안상태) as Nam Dae Tae
  • Kim Soo Mi
  • Park In Hwan
  • Seo In Young (cameo, eps 1-3)

Notable recordings (Arlen/Robin)

  • Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House" written by William Saroyan and his cousin Ross Bagdasarian , which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me" Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 –...

     with Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...

     orchestra
  • Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...

     - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
    Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook
    Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Songbook is a 1961 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Billy May...

    (1961)
  • Eddie Howard orchestra
  • Susannah McCorkle
    Susannah McCorkle
    Susannah McCorkle was an American jazz singer much admired for her direct, unadorned singing style and quiet intensity.-Biography:...

    - Thanks for the Memory—The Songs of Leo Robin (1983)
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