"Singin' In the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed

Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.- Biography :Freed began his career as a song-plugger and pianist in Chicago...

 and music by Nacio Herb Brown

Nacio Herb Brown

Nacio Herb Brown was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.-Biography:...

, published in 1929. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was written and performed as early as 1927. The song was listed as Number 3 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute June 22, 2004 in a CBS special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and...

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Covers

"Singing in the Rain" was first performed by Doris Eaton Travis

Doris Eaton Travis

Doris Eaton Travis was a Broadway and film performer, dance instructor, and author. She was also the last surviving Ziegfeld girl.Travis began performing onstage as a young child, and made her Broadway debut at the age of 13...

 in the 1929 revue

Revue

A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...

 The Hollywood Music Box Revue. The song became a hit and was recorded by a number of artists, notably Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929...

, who also performed the number with the Brox Sisters

Brox Sisters

The Brox Sisters were an American trio of singing sisters, enjoying their greatest popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s.-Early life:The members were*Bobbe...

 in the early MGM musical The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...

. It was also performed by Annette Hanshaw

Annette Hanshaw

Catherine Annette Hanshaw was born at her parents' residence in New York City on October 18, 1901. [Ed. While Annette sometimes gave her birth date as 1910, nephew Frank W. Hanshaw III confirms 1901 as the date on Annette's birth certificate.]-Biography:...

 in her album Volume 6. It was also performed on film by Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Durante

James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

 (in 1932's Speak Easily

Speak Easily

Speak Easily is a 1932 American comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and What! No Beer? Keaton later used many of the physical...

) and Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...

 (in 1940's Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 musical comedy film based on the stage musical by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923. The film was written by Jack McGowan and directed by Norman Taurog...

). An instrumental version was used as background music

Background music

Although background music was by the end of the 20th century generally identified with Muzak or elevator music, there are several stages in the development of this concept.-Antecedents:...

 at the beginning of MGM's 1930 "The Divorcee

The Divorcee

The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director...

" staring Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer

Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...

.

• The song is probably best known today as the centerpiece of the musical film
  Musical film
  The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
  
   Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  (1952), in which Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
   memorably danced to the song while splashing through puddles during a rainstorm. The song is also performed during the opening credits of the film.
• The song was recorded in Buenos Aires for Odeon Records
  Odeon Records
  Odeon Records was a record label founded in 1903 by Max Straus and Heinrich Zuntz of the International Talking Machine Company in Berlin, Germany. It was named after a famous theatre in Paris, whose classical dome appears on the Odeon record label....
  
   in 1930 under the title "Cantando Bajo La Lluvia," by Francisco Canaro
  Francisco Canaro
  Francisco Canaro was an Uruguayan-Argentine violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents, Italians emigrated to Uruguay, and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay,...
  
  's orchestra and with the Spanish lyrics sung by Charlo
  Charlo
  Charlo can refer to:* Charlo the Argentine actor Carlos José Pérez de la Riestra * Charlo, Montana* Charlo, New Brunswick* Chief Charlo of the Bitterroot Salish* Charlos Cove, Nova Scotia...
  
  . It was also recorded under the same title in 1936 by the Orquesta Tipica Victor, the RCA Victor in-house orchestra in Buenos Aires.
• The song was also recorded by John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr. was an accomplished concert accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks...
  
   and his sextet ensemble in 1954 for RCA Victor records under the musical direction of Ben Selvin
  Ben Selvin
  Benjamin B. Selvin , son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was a musician, bandleader, record producer and innovator in recorded music. He was known as The Dean of Recorded Music....
  
   on an LP vinyl disc.
• In 1971, Scottish folk rock-singer John Martyn did an acoustic folk jazz
  Folk jazz
  Folk jazz is a broad term for music that pairs traditional folk music with elements of jazz music, featuring richly elaborated songs whose textures are rooted in both styles....
  
  -version on his album Bless The Weather
  Bless the Weather
  Bless the Weather is a 1971 album by John Martyn and marks his return as a solo artist having released two albums with his wife Beverley Martyn. When it was released it garnered his best reviews to date, and remains a firm favourite among fans, featuring such standards as "Head and Heart" and the...
  
  , where he accompanied himself on acoustic guitar and sang several overdubbed backing vocals.
• The Pasadena Roof Orchestra
  Pasadena Roof Orchestra
  The Pasadena Roof Orchestra is a contemporary band from England that specialises in the jazz and swing genres of music of the 1920s and 1930s, although their full repertoire is considerably wider. The orchestra has existed since 1969, although the line-up has frequently changed...
  
   has covered the song on many different occasions, including releasing it on The Best of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra album in 1973.
• The song was subsequently featured in Stanley Kubrick
  Stanley Kubrick
  Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
  
  's film A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange (film)
  A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...
  
  , in which the protagonist sang it while raping a woman. The song is also played over the closing credits.
• The song is covered by Cary Grant
  Cary Grant
  Archibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
  
  's character, Roger Thornhill, in the shower, in Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
  's film North by Northwest
  North by Northwest
  North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...
  
  
• Sammy Davis Jr. gave the song a final US chart ride with a version widely played on easy listening stations (number 16 easy listening, 1974).
• Disco version of Singin' in the Rain in 1978 by the French pop singer Sheila B. Devotion (UK number 11).
• In the 1980s, Dutch pop singer Taco released a version of it, which reached number 46 in the Canadian Charts on August 27, 1983, although it failed to crack the US Top 100 or the UK Top 40.
• Glenn Butcher covered this song on the Australian video ABC for Kids Video Hits
  ABC for Kids Video Hits
  ABC For Kids: Video Hits is an Australian video released in 1991 by ABC Video and Video Selection Australia. It includes video clips of songs sung by various artists such as The Wiggles, Peter Combe, Don Spencer, Ross Higgins, Robyn Archer, Glenn Butcher, Franciscus Henri, Joe Dolce and the others...
  
  .
• British jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
  /pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
   singer Jamie Cullum
  Jamie Cullum
  Jamie Cullum is an English pop and jazz-pop singer-songwriter. Though he is primarily a vocalist/pianist he also accompanies himself on other instruments including guitar and drums. Since April 2010, he has been presenting a weekly jazz show on BBC Radio 2, broadcast on Tuesdays from 19:00.- Early...
  
   covered the song on his 2003 album Twentysomething
  Twentysomething (album)
  Twentysomething is the third album by Jamie Cullum. It was released in 2003 in his native UK, and in May 2004 in the United States.On this release Cullum performs some original material as well as some covers and standards...
  
  .
• In the film called Robots
  Robots (film)
  Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox, and was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce, a children's book author/illustrator. The two were trying to create a film version of...
  
  , when Fender says goodbye to Loretta with a blowing kiss, he happily sings a parody called "Singing In The Oil" which is to the tune of this song and dances around until he gets caught by a Sweeper.
• A version performed by the UK comedy partnership Morecambe and Wise
  Morecambe and Wise
  Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, usually referred to as Morecambe and Wise, or Eric and Ernie, were a British comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984...
  
   was ranked at the top of a 2007 poll of their Greatest Moments
  Morecambe & Wise: Greatest Moments
  Morecambe & Wise: Greatest Moments was a compilation programme originally aired on 2 December 2007 on the UKTV network channel UKTV Gold and featured clips, interviews and home move footage, culminating in the showing of the "best" sketch from their programmes...
  
  .
• A version was also performed by Jheena Lodwick in 2006, on her album titled Singing in the rain.
• In 2009 and 2010 the song was performed by South-Korean K-pop group Girls' Generation
  Girls' Generation
  Girls' Generation is a nine-member South Korean electropop girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2007. The nine members are: Taeyeon , Jessica, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona and Seohyun...
  
   on their Into the New World tour
  Into the New World (concert)
  Girls' Generation 1st Asia Tour: Into the New World is the first concert tour by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. Although the first concerts were scheduled in South Korea, they have started their international concerts with Shanghai, China in April 2010...
  
  
• In 2010, the song was sung on FOX series
  FOX series
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   Glee
  Glee (TV series)
  Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
  
  in a mash-up with Rihanna
  Rihanna
  Robyn Rihanna Fenty , better known as simply Rihanna, is a Barbadian recording artist. Born in Saint Michael, Barbados, Rihanna moved to the United States at the age of 16 to pursue a recording career under the guidance of record producer Evan Rogers...
  
  's "Umbrella
  Umbrella (song)
  "Umbrella" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer Rihanna, featuring a rap verse by Jay-Z. The song was written by The-Dream, Christopher Stewart, Kuk Harrell and Jay-Z, and was produced by Stewart and The-Dream for Rihanna's third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad...
  
  " featuring Gwyneth Paltrow
  Gwyneth Paltrow
  Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and singer. She made her acting debut on stage in 1990 and started appearing in films in 1991. After appearing in several films throughout the decade, Paltrow gained early notice for her work in films such as Se7en and Emma...
  
  .
• There's a jazz instrumental by Sonny Stitt on his 1958 album Sonny Stitt Plays Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements.

Mint Royale remix

Singin' in the Rain was remixed by Mint Royale

Mint Royale

Mint Royale is a big beat electronic music act from Manchester, England. They were originally founded by the duo Neil Claxton and Chris Baker in 1997; the latter left the band in 2004, but Claxton continues to produce music using the Mint Royale name.-Career:...

 using the classic musical

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 song Singin' in the Rain. It was released on 22 August 2005 after being featured in an advert for the Volkswagen Golf

Volkswagen Golf

The Volkswagen Golf is a small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada , and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico .The...

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History

Due to the extreme exposure of the song via the performance of then-unknown dancer George Sampson

George Sampson

George Jennifer Sampson is a street dancer and actor from Warrington, England. He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.-2007 series:...

 on (and ultimate winner of) Britain's Got Talent

Britain's Got Talent

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, "Short Radio Edit" of the track went to number one on the iTunes

ITunes

iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

 Top 100 in the UK in 2008, years after its initial release , with other versions of the track appearing lower down.

It re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 28 on June 1, 2008 and climbed to number 1 on June 8, 2008, selling 45,987 copies, knocking Rihanna's "Take a Bow

Take a Bow (Rihanna song)

"Take a Bow" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, taken from the re-release, Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded , of her third studio album Good Girl Gone Bad . The song was written and produced by Tor Erik Hermansen, Mikkel Eriksen and Shaffer Smith, under their stage names Stargate and Ne-Yo...

" down to the number 2 spot. After being knocked off the top spot by Coldplay it continuously fell down the chart.

It was also danced to by the winner of So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia was an Australian version of the American reality dance-off series So You Think You Can Dance. The show is hosted by Natalie Bassingthwaighte, with Jason Coleman, Matt Lee and Bonnie Lythgoe acting as the judges....

, Jack Chambers and his partner Kate Wormald during Top 8 week. The routine was choreographed by UK Award winning choreographer, Supple Nam.

On July 27, 2008, the song re-entered the chart at number 35 and fell to number 40 the following week.

Track listings

CD 1

1. "Singin' in the Rain" (short radio edit) (2:04)
2. "Singin' in the Rain" (club mix) (5:45)

CD 2

1. "Singin' in the Rain" (short radio edit) (2:04)
2. "Singin' in the Rain" (club mix) (5:45)
3. "Singin' in the Rain" (Kenny Hayes remix) (6:16)
4. "Singin' in the Rain" (Pablo Ramone's club remix) (7:03)
5. "Singin' in the Rain" (Smith & Pledger remix) (7:23)
6. "Singin' in the Rain" (Storm in a Double DD Cup remix) (6:53)
7. "Singin' in the Rain" (video) (2:30)

12" Vinyl

1. "Singin' in the Rain" (club mix) (5:45)
2. "Singin' in the Rain" (Smith & Pledger remix) (7:23)
3. "Singin' in the Rain" (Pablo Ramone's club remix) (7:03)

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	20
Chart (2008)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	1
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	3

Selected appearances in media

• The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929
  The Hollywood Revue of 1929 is a 1929 part Technicolor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer American musical-comedy film. It was the studio's second feature-length musical, and one of the earliest ventures into the talkie format. Produced by Harry Rapf and directed by Chuck Riesner, the film brought together some...
  
  (1929)
• The Dogway Melody
  The Dogway Melody
  The Dogway Melody is a 1930 comedy short film that recreates scenes from early musical films, particularly The Broadway Melody. The entire cast are trained dogs with human voiceovers...
  
  (1930)
• The Divorcee
  The Divorcee
  The Divorcee is a 1930 American drama film written by Nick Grindé, John Meehan and Zelda Sears, based on the novel Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrott. It was directed by Robert Z. Leonard, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director...
  
  (1930)
• Speak Easily
  Speak Easily
  Speak Easily is a 1932 American comedy film starring Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, and Thelma Todd, and directed by Edward Sedgwick. The studio also paired Keaton and Durante as a comedy team during this period in The Passionate Plumber and What! No Beer? Keaton later used many of the physical...
  
  (1932)
• The Old Dark House
  The Old Dark House
  The Old Dark House is an American comedy horror film directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff, produced just one year after their success with Frankenstein, also released by Universal Studios.-Background:...
  
  (1932)
• Idiot's Delight (1939)
• Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 musical comedy film based on the stage musical by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923. The film was written by Jack McGowan and directed by Norman Taurog...
  
  (1940)
• The Big Noise
  The Big Noise
  The Big Noise is a 1944 comedy film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was produced by Sol M. Wurtzel and directed by Mal St.Clair. It has been regarded by many film critics and Laurel and Hardy historians as being among the duo's worst films....
  
  (1944)
• Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  (1952)
• North by Northwest
  North by Northwest
  North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...
  
  (1959)
• A Clockwork Orange
  A Clockwork Orange (film)
  A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. It was written, directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick...
  
  (1971)
• Die Hard
  Die Hard
  Die Hard is a 1988 American action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which...
  
  (1988)
• What About Bob?
  What About Bob?
  What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, and starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray plays Bob Wiley, a multiphobic psychiatric patient who follows his successful and egotistical psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin on vacation...
  
  (1991)
• Jeeves and Wooster
  Jeeves and Wooster
  -External links:*—An episode guide to the series, including information about which episodes were adapted from which Wodehouse stories.*—Episode guides, screenshots and quotes from the four series....
  
  (1991)
• Léon
  Léon (film)
  Léon is a 1994 French thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson...
  
  (1994)
• Godzilla
  Godzilla (1998 film)
  Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction monster disaster film film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident...
  
   (1998)
• Shanghai Knights
  Shanghai Knights
  Shanghai Knights is a 2003 action-comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.-Plot:...
  
  (2003)
• Robots
  Robots (film)
  Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th Century Fox, and was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The story was created by Chris Wedge and William Joyce, a children's book author/illustrator. The two were trying to create a film version of...
  
  (2005)
• Kara no Kyōkai
  Kara no Kyokai
  is a Japanese novel series, authored by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. It is also known under the nickname . Its subtitle is The Garden of Sinners.-History:...
  
   (Murder Speculation Part 1, The Hollow Shrine) (2008)
• Glee's
  Glee (TV series)
  Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...
  
   The Substitute
  The Substitute (Glee)
  "The Substitute" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American television series Glee, and the 29th episode overall. It was written by Ian Brennan, directed by Ryan Murphy, and premiered on Fox on November 16, 2010...
  
  (2010)