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5 songs

Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)

1937

Louis Prima's tune, Krupa's tom-toms, and a performance long enough to fill both sides of a twelve-inch 78.

★ 8.0

1939

Joe Garland's tune cut to three minutes to fit a 78, and those false endings that never quite stop.

★ 7.5

1959

Charles Trenet wrote it about the sea; Jack Lawrence's English lyric made it a love song, and Darin swung it.

★ 6.7

Stardust (1941)Artie Shaw

1941

Lennie Hayton's arrangement gives Butterfield's trumpet and Jenney's trombone their solos, then floats Shaw's clarinet over strings.

★ 6.3

1941

Cut in Hollywood in May 1941; nine months later RCA handed Miller the first gold record ever presented.

★ 6.0