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I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues (1944)

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AKAAin't Got Nothin' but the Blues
Rank 888
Music Duke Ellington
Lyrics Don George

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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 "I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues" may be found in:

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


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Duke Ellington and Don George

Year Rank Title
1944 888 “I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues”

Duke Ellington, Don George and Harry James

Year Rank Title
1945 811 “Everything but You”

Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges and Harry James

Year Rank Title
1944 229 “I'm Beginning to See the Light”

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