<P> `` Happy Days Are Here Again '' is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager ( music ) and Jack Yellen ( lyrics ) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog , Inc. / Advanced Music Corp . The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra , with Lou Levin , vocal ( November 1929 ) , and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows . The song concluded the picture , in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a `` pull - out - all - the - stops Technicolor finale , against a Great War Armistice show - within - a-show backdrop . '' This early example of 2 - strip Technicolor footage was , along with another Technicolor sequence , later cut from the 1931 re-edited release of the otherwise black - and - white film , and is believed to have been lost in the 1967 MGM Vault 7 fire . </P>
<P> `` Happy Days Are Here Again '' is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager ( music ) and Jack Yellen ( lyrics ) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog , Inc. / Advanced Music Corp . The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra , with Lou Levin , vocal ( November 1929 ) , and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows . The song concluded the picture , in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a `` pull - out - all - the - stops Technicolor finale , against a Great War Armistice show - within - a-show backdrop . '' This early example of 2 - strip Technicolor footage was , along with another Technicolor sequence , later cut from the 1931 re-edited release of the otherwise black - and - white film , and is believed to have been lost in the 1967 MGM Vault 7 fire . </P>
when was happy days are here again written
when was happy days are here again written
1929
1929