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Strike Up the Band (1929)

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Rank 320
Music George Gershwin
Lyrics Ira Gershwin

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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 "Strike Up the Band" may be found in:

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


(1 paragraph including the following types of information: anecdotal, summary and lyric analysis.)

Robert Gottlieb, Robert Kimball
Reading Lyrics
Pantheon
Hardcover: 736 pages


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George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Year Rank Title
1924 18 “The Man I Love”
1924 22 “Oh, Lady Be Good!”
1930 24 “Embraceable You”
1930 54 “But Not for Me”
1938 57 “Love Is Here to Stay”
1930 73 “I Got Rhythm”
1926 77 “Someone to Watch Over Me”
1937 86 “They Can't Take That Away from Me”
1937 88 “A Foggy Day”
1927 98 “'S Wonderful!”
1937 158 “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
1937 201 “Love Walked In”
1927 213 “How Long Has This Been Going On?”
1929 320 “Strike Up the Band”
1924 329 “Fascinating Rhythm”
1929 381 “Soon”
1931 419 “Who Cares? (So Long As You Care for Me)”
1935 420 “It Ain't Necessarily So”
1930 487 “I've Got a Crush on You”
1936 766 “Let's Call the Whole Thing Off”
1936 927 “They All Laughed”
1926 983 “Maybe”

George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward

Year Rank Title
1935 270 “I Loves You Porgy”
1935 539 “Bess, You Is My Woman Now”

George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn

Year Rank Title
1929 189 “Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)”

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