In 1929, as part of their score for an early "talkie" called Chasing Rainbows, Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote "Happy Days Are Here Again" to be sung by a group of American doughboys upon receiving news of the armistice. On the night of the Wall Street crash, before the film was released, the writers took the music to George Olsen, then leading his dance orchestra at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. As the vocalist sang, the dispirited diners, according to Yellen, stopped what they were doing and "joined in sardonically, hysterically, like doomed prisoners on their way to the firing squad." The song was quickly picked up as a genuine rallying cry of the Depression years and, in 1932, became the official theme of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's victorious campaign for the Presidency.

Since we are advocates of George W. Bush for President in the elections on November 2, 2004, we are hoping the Republican Congress and President Bush will be singing this song from the housetops. I know the Ol'Kunnel and (I am sure) his friends and family will be doing so....

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