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Last Night When We Were Young (1937)

Origin and Chart Information
Rank 526
Music Harold Arlen
Lyrics Yip Harburg

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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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Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg

Year Rank Title
1938 63 Over the Rainbow
1937 526 Last Night When We Were Young
1942 721 Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe

Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg and Billy Rose

Year Rank Title
1933 154 It's Only a Paper Moon

Reading and Research
Additional information for "Last Night When We Were Young" 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 Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 552 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: history and performers.

Robert Gottlieb, Robert Kimball
Reading Lyrics
Pantheon
Hardcover: 736 pages
Includes the following types of information: song lyrics.

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