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charts on September 16, 1949, peaking at number one for five weeks on all three of the magazine's main pop charts at the time (Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in Jukeboxes)., charting well into 1950 for 25 weeks. Jenkins would top himself a few months later when he
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The Billboard October 22, 1949 full page ad featuring Gordon Jenkins, Decca's musical director and band leader/arranger on this record
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A barbershop arrangement penned by Ed Waesche became a favourite of 1978 International Barbershop Quartet Champions, the
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released a hit recording of it the same year, but it was in the postwar years that the song gained its greatest success.
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Catalog of Copyright Entries 1937 Musical Compositions New Series Vol 32 Pt 3 For the Year 1937
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on July 15, 1949 (Jenkins was also arranger), and released by
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that was published in 1937. It was included in a flop
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in 1962 the song was recorded by British jazz singer
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Index


Single
The Andrews Sisters
Gordon Jenkins Chorus and Orchestra
B-side
Studio
Genre
Popular music
Label
Decca 24705
Composer(s)
Sammy Fain
Lyricist(s)
Irving Kahal
popular
Sammy Fain
Irving Kahal
musical
Right This Way
Tommy Dorsey
Harry James
Brunswick
the Andrews Sisters
Gordon Jenkins Chorus and Orchestra
Decca Records
Billboard
Goodnight Irene
The Weavers
Perry Como
The Chesterfield Supper Club

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