"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.

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It was popularized in 1946 by Frankie Carle (vocal by Marjorie Hughes) and by The Andrews Sisters with Les Paul. The Frankie Carle version was a number-one hit in 1946 in America for nine weeks from late October that year.

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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) (who recorded the song for Signature Records, catalog #15043.)

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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.

1946 songs

1946 singles

Songs written by Bennie Benjamin

Songs written by George David Weiss

Number-one singles in the United States