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Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe (1942)

Origin and Chart Information
AKAHappiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe
Rank 721
Music Harold Arlen
Lyrics Yip Harburg
Currently, 1000 jazz standards are ranked and have web pages (click on Songs for the full list).

 The top 300 are fully documented:

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 "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" may be found in:

David Ewen
American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary
H. W. Wilson
Hardcover: 489 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: history and performers.

Alec Wilder
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
Oxford University Press; Reprint edition
Hardcover: 576 pages
3 paragraphs including the following types of information: music analysis.

Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 536 pages
1 paragraph including the following types of information: summary and performers.

Susan Sackett
Hollywood Sings!: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Academy Award-Nominated Songs
Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc
Paperback: 332 pages
5 paragraphs including the following types of information: history.

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

Roy Hemming
The Melody Lingers On: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals
Newmarket Pr; Reprint edition
Paperback
1 paragraph including the following types of information: anecdotal. (Page 13).

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