Over the Rainbow
1939
MGM cut it from the film twice until Arthur Freed threatened to quit; Garland was sixteen.
★ 9.0
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Boogie Woogie Bugle BoyThe Andrews Sisters
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
1941
Raye and Prince wrote it for an Abbott and Costello comedy, and the sisters harmonize like a brass section.
★ 6.5
Swinging on a Star
1944
Van Heusen heard Crosby warn a son at dinner he might grow up a mule, and Burke built the lyric.
★ 4.8
You Always Hurt the One You Love
1944
Doris Fisher's music, Allan Roberts's lyric, four voices in close harmony, and a B-side, "Till Then," that charted too.
★ 3.4