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Straighten Up and Fly Right (1944)

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Rank 951
Words and Music Nat “King” Cole
Irving Mills

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1930 1 “Body and Soul”
1939 2 “All the Things You Are”
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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 "Straighten Up and Fly Right" may be found in:

Thomas S. Hischak
The American Musical Film Song Encyclopedia
Greenwood Press
Hardcover: 536 pages


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Nat “King” Cole and Irving Mills

Year Rank Title
1944 951 “Straighten Up and Fly Right”

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