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Dear Old Southland (1921)

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Rank 589
Music Turner Layton
Lyrics Henry Creamer

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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 "Dear Old Southland" may be found in:

Thomas S. Hischak
The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 552 pages


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Henry Creamer and Turner Layton

Year Rank Title
1918 34 After You've Gone
1922 368 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
1921 589 Dear Old Southland

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