"Easter Parade"

Fred Astaire & Judy Garland
singing "Easter Parade" (1948)

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

Easter Parade
Film Poster (1948)

Fred Astaire & Judy Garland
singing "Easter Parade" (1948)

"Easter Parade"
Album (1948)

Preface: Today is Fourth of July, the 247th anniversary of American Independence. Rather playing "Born on the Fourth of July" from James Cagney (as songwriter George M. Cohan, born July 3, 1878) singing in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), I've selected another holiday song for Song #38, "Easter Parade" sang by Fred Astaire & Judy Garland (1948); (Lyrics). The film starred Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, and Ann Miller. It contains some of Astaire's and Garland's best-known songs, including "Easter Parade" (1933), "Steppin' Out with My Baby", and "We're a Couple of Swells", all
by Irving Berlin. A critical & commercial success, Easter Parade was the highest-grossing musical film of 1948, and the second-highest grossing MGM musical of the 1940s, after Meet Me in St. Louis. AFI's 100 Years... 100 songs (2004)
didn't rank "Easter Parade" among its top 100 songs.

In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
I'll be all in clover and when they look you over,
I'll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade.
On the avenue, Fifth Avenue, the photographers will snap us,
And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure.
Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet,
And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.

© Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com
July 4, 2023