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It's a Wonderful World (1939)

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Origin and Chart Information
Rank 778
Music Johnny Watson
Jan Savitt
Lyrics Harold Adamson

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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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Reading and Research
Additional information for "It's a Wonderful World" may be found in:

George T. Simon
Big Bands Songbook
Barnes & Noble
Paperback


(4 pages including the following types of information: performers, song writer discussion and sheet music.)

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.)
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Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt and Johnny Watson

Year Rank Title
1939 778 “It's a Wonderful World”

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