 On the big broadcast of 1938, thanks for the memory. Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. Music by Ralph Ranger and lyrics by Leo Robin. The Oscar winner for best song in 38, beating out Always and Always, Change Partners, The Cowboy and the Lady, Dust, Jeepers Creepers, Merrily We Live, A Mist Over the Moon, My Own, and Now It Can Be Told. The very next year, the best song nominees only totaled four. And the winner was one of the most popular songs of all time.