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Are You Havin' Any Fun?
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Wikipedia article
"'Are You Havin' Any Fun?'" is a song with lyrics by Jack Yellen and music by Sammy Fain. It featured in the Broadway review series 'George White's Scandals' in 1939. A popular recording in 1939 was by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra (vocal by Edythe Wright).
Other recordings
* British musical comedy duo Flanagan and Allen incorporated this in their popular Music Hall act of the 1930s and 1940s:Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/UB_RFcpRXoE Ghostarchive] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121207103851/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_RFcpRXoE&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]:
*Elaine Stritch's recording from her 1956 album 'Stritch'
*Tony Bennett recorded the song on his 1959 album 'Strike Up the Band' with Count Basie,
*In 2006 Bennett re-recorded the song for his album 'Duets: An American Classic' as a duet with Elvis Costello.
Popular culture
*The Tony Bennett recording is featured in the 2012 film 'Quartet', the first film directed by Dustin Hoffman.
The song is also performed in the film, by Trevor Peacock, David Ryall, as a homage to Flanagan and Allen, the famous British music hall artists. Peacock and Ryall also perform "Underneath the Arches", a signature song of Flanagan and Allen.
*The Elaine Stritch recording was featured in a for P&O Cruises from December 2013.
References
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