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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (1927)

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AKACan't Help Lovin' That Man
AKACan't Help Lovin' Dat Gal
Rank 339
Music Jerome Kern
Lyrics Oscar Hammerstein II

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Year Rank Title
1930 1 “Body and Soul”
1939 2 “All the Things You Are”
1935 3 “Summertime”
1944 4 “'Round Midnight”
1935 5 “I Can't Get Started (with You)”
1937 6 “My Funny Valentine”
1942 7 “Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)”
1930 8 “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
1933 9 “Yesterdays”
1946 10 “Stella by Starlight”

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Additional information for "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" may be found in:

Alec Wilder
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Hardcover: 576 pages


(1 page including the following types of information: music analysis.)

Allen Forte
The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950: A Study in Musical Design
Princeton University Press
Hardcover: 336 pages


(4 pages including the following types of information: music analysis.)

Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 568 pages


(1 paragraph including the following types of information: summary.)

Roy Hemming
The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals
Newmarket Pr; Reprint edition
Paperback


(1 paragraph including the following types of information: anecdotal. (Page 116).)

Gerald Mast
Can't Help Singin'
Overlook Press; Rei edition
Paperback: 400 pages


(2 paragraphs including the following types of information: lyric analysis.)
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Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern

Year Rank Title
1939 2 “All the Things You Are”
1932 159 “The Song Is You”
1927 236 “Ol' Man River”
1927 339 “Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man”
1929 377 “Why Was I Born”
1927 431 “Why Do I Love You?”
1937 471 “The Folks Who Live on the Hill”
1925 607 “Who”
1946 657 “Nobody Else but Me”
1927 936 “Make Believe”

Dorothy Fields, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern and Jimmy McHugh

Year Rank Title
1935 999 “I Won't Dance”

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