161:"Tell Me Marianne" first entered the sheet music charts for the week ending 26 April 1947. It dropped out the following week, and re-entered on 10 May, before reaching number 1 for a week on 26 June. It spent a total of 17 weeks on the chart. No recordings of the song entered the US
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