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Song
"Rumors Are Flying" is a 1946
popular
song popularized by
Frankie Carle and
Les Paul and
The Andrews Sisters.
Background
The song was written by
Bennie Benjamin and
George David Weiss and published in
1946.
It was popularized in
1946 by
Frankie Carle (vocal by
Marjorie Hughes)
[1] and by
The Andrews Sisters with
Les Paul.
[2] The Frankie Carle version was a number-one hit in 1946 in America for nine weeks from late October that year.
[3]
Other recordings
Other charted versions in 1946 were by
Betty Jane Rhodes;
Billy Butterfield;
The Three Suns;
Tony Martin; and by Harry Cool and his Orchestra (vocal by
Mindy Carson)
[4] (who recorded the song for
Signature Records, catalog #15043.)
[5]
References
Sources
- Nimmo, H. Arlo. The Andrews Sisters. Jefferson: McFarland & Co, Inc., 2004.
- Sforza, John. Swing It! The Andrews Sisters Story. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
- Shaughnessy, Mary Alice. Les Paul: An American Original. New York: W. Morrow, 1993.
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