Rockefeller Center - They All Laughed - NY, NY
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"They All Laughed" by George Gershwin mentions Rockefeller Center as a project the people laughed at and never thought it would come to fruition but became a huge success.
Waymark Code: WM10WB4
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2019
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They All Laughed by George Gershwin was first performed by Ginger Rogers in the film Shall We Dance in 1937. It has since become a standard song covered by many singers from Fred Astaire to a duet with Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.
Rockefeller Center is a complex of nineteen buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues. Construction Construction of the original 14 Art Deco style buildings began on May 17, 1930 and was completed in 1939. In the center of the complex is the skating rink with the monumental gilded bronze Art Deco statue of Prometheus overlooking the skaters. The statue is set in the middle of a fountain and in front red granite wall.
Lyrics to "They All Laughed"
The odds were a hundred to one against me
The world thought the heights were too high to climb
But people from Missouri never incensed me
Oh, I wasn't a bit concerned
For from hist'ry I had learned
How many, many times the worm had turned
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother when they said that man could fly
They told Marconi wireless was a phony, it's the same old cry
They laughed at me wanting you, said I was reaching for the moon
But oh, you came through, now they'll have to change their tune
They all said we never could be happy, they laughed at us and how!
But ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh now?
They all laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they're fighting to get in
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
They all laughed Fulton and his steamboat, Hershey and his chocolate bar
Ford and his Lizzie, kept the laughers busy, that's how people are
They laughed at me wanting you, said it would be, "Hello, Goodbye."
But oh, you came through, now they're eating humble pie
They all said we'd never get together, darling, let's take a bow
For ho, ho, ho! Who's got the last laugh?
Hee, hee, hee! Let's at the past laugh, Ha, ha, ha! Who's got the last laugh now?
Musician: Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett, et. al.
Name of Song: They All Laughed
Relevant Verse:
They all laughed at Rockefeller Center, now they're fighting to get in.
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