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Jimmy McHugh

On the Sunny Side of the Street

1994 · via Jimmy McHugh

Jimmy McHugh’s earliest release of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” on file came out in 1994. Jimmy McHugh shares the writing credit with Dorothy Fields. The earliest release on file is Dorothy Fields’, from 1939. Also recorded by Louis Armstrong (released 1951), Frank Sinatra (released 1961) and Dizzy Gillespie (released 1953), among 1069 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Everybody knows the song, but almost nobody knows the name on the sheet music, and McHugh's own recording finally came out in 1994. Play it next to Armstrong's and you can hear the tune walk out of the writer's room and into the street.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields.

Earliest release on file: Dorothy Fields, 1939.

Other recordings on file · first release year

1069 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Jimmy McHugh wrote On the Sunny Side of the Street with Dorothy Fields. Which of these artists put out a recording of it in 1951?Louis Armstrong
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