<P> `` Stormy Weather '' is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler . Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year , and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford . Also 1933 , for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem 's Cotton Club went on tour , playing theatres in principal cities . The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to the Stormy Weather Revue and as the name implies , the show contained the hit song `` Stormy Weather '' which was sung by Adelaide Hall . </P>
<P> `` Stormy Weather '' is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler . Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year , and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford . Also 1933 , for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem 's Cotton Club went on tour , playing theatres in principal cities . The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to the Stormy Weather Revue and as the name implies , the show contained the hit song `` Stormy Weather '' which was sung by Adelaide Hall . </P>
who sang the original version of stormy weather
who sang the original version of stormy weather
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters