"Look at That Girl" is a 1953 popular

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 song

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. It was written

Songwriter

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 by Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...

 and produced

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 by Mitch Miller

Mitch Miller

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. The song was recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

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 by Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell

Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...

 and it gave him his second #1 hit

Hit record

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 on the UK Singles Chart

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 where it spent six weeks at the top.

Once again, it was the team of Merrill, Mitchell, and Miller that created the record

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, but this was to be the last chart topper for this particular trio.

Alberto Semprini, on piano with rhythm accompaniment, recorded it in London

London

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 on October 13, 1953 as the third song of the medley "Dancing to the piano (No. 22) - Hit medley of Fox Trots" along with "Bridge of Sighs" and "Is It Any Wonder." The medley was released by EMI

EMI

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 on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10592.

See also

• List of number-one singles from the 1950s (UK)