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Fascinatin' Rhythm: The Story of a Song - You Made Me Love You, 05/05/18

Al Jolson topped the charts with “You Made Me Love You”: October 4, 1913
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Al Jolson topped the charts with “You Made Me Love You”: October 4, 1913

Episode # 1818

The Story of a Song—“You Made Me Love You”—What started as a ragtime song by Ragtime Jimmy Monaco and Joe McCarthy soon became a slow romantic ballad. It survived as a standard, and then Judy Garland brought it back to life twenty-five years later when she sang it to Clark Gable on his birthday.