It’s taken me so long to put a single Richard Cheese track on the blog because I couldn’t decide which one to choose, I love so many, but this is easily one of my top 5!
Richard Cheese is a character created and portrayed by Los Angeles based actor, comedian and singer Mark Jonathan Davis. This cover of Garbage’s 1995 hit Only Happy When it Rains, performed in the style of Gene Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain, is taken from the album Lounge Against the Machine released in 2000.
Singin’ in the Rain is one of the most famous songs from the 1952 musical Singin’ in the Rain, although the song itself first appeared in the 1929 musical The Hollywood Revue with Cliff Edwards and the Brox Sisters (see the fabulous stage set and choreography below!), and then featured again in a few more movies, including the 1940 film Little Nellie Kelly where it was performed by Judy Garland.
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