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Please Be Kind (1938)

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Rank 697
Words and Music Sammy Cahn
Saul Chaplin

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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 "Please Be Kind" may be found in:

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


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Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin

Year Rank Title
1936 644 Shoe Shine Boy
1938 697 Please Be Kind
1939 830 You're a Lucky Guy

Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin and Hy Zaret

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1936 573 Dedicated to You

Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Mann Holiner and Alberta Nichols

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1936 317 Until the Real Thing Comes Along

Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Jacob Jacobs and Sholom Secunda

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1937 967 Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen

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