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Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) (1940)

Origin and Chart Information
Rank 460
Music Rube Bloom
Lyrics Johnny Mercer

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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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Rube Bloom and Johnny Mercer

Year Rank Title
1940 460 Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
1939 503 Day In, Day Out

Reading and Research
Additional information for "Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" 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.

Max Morath
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Popular Standards
Perigee Books
Paperback: 235 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: history and performers.

Thomas S. Hischak
The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 552 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: film productions, history and performers.

Philip Furia
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer
St. Martin's Press; 1st edition
Hardcover: 320 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: lyric analysis.

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