Episode #2004
1/25 Singin' in the Rain: A History of Sorts Here's an attempt to draw some circles around one of the most famous songs in the history of the movies. Nobody knows exactly when composer Nacio Herb Brown and lyricist Arthur Freed wrote it—probably by 1925—but it first appeared in a movie in 1929, twenty-three years before Gene Kelly made it into one of those songs nearly everybody can identify.
