TOP MUSIC HITS FOR EACH YEAR (THE CHARTS) ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1940 1. "When You Wish Upon a Star" - Glenn Miller 2. "In The Mood" - Glenn Miller 3. "When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano" - Ink Spots 4. "Body and Soul" - Coleman Hawkins 5. "Ma (He's Making Eyes at Me)" - Dick Robertson 6. "Frenesi" - Artie Shaw 7. "Tuxedo Junction" - Glenn Miller 8. "I'll Never Smile Again" - Tommy Dorsey 9. "Ballad For Americans" - Paul Robeson 10. "Blueberry Hill" - Glenn Miller 11. "Careless" - Glenn Miller 12. "Ferryboat Serenade" - Andrews Sisters 13. "The Woodpecker Song" - Glenn Miller 14. "The Breeze and I" - Jimmy Dorsey 15. "Only Forever" - Bing Crosby 16. "All The Things You Are" - Tommy Dorsey 17. "Trade Winds" - Bing Crosby 18. "Where Was I?" - Charlie Barnet 19. "Only Forever" - Bing Crosby 20. "Imagination" - Glenn Miller ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1941 1. "Stardust" - Artie Shaw 2. "String of Pearls" - Glenn Miller 3. "God Bless The Child" - Billie Holiday 4. "You Are My Sunshine" - Wayne King 5. "Dancing In The Dark" - Artie Shaw 6. "Take The 'A' Train" - Duke Ellington 7. "You Made Me Love You" - Harry James 8. "The Band Played On" - Guy Lombardo 9. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" - Glenn Miller 10. "Piano Concerto In B Flat" - Freddy Martin 11. "We Three (My Echo, My Shaow, and Me)" - Ink Spots 12. "Green Eyes" - Jimmy Dorsey 13. "Summit Ridge Drive" - Artie Shaw 14. "You and I" - Glenn Miller 15. "Daddy" - Sammy Kaye 16. "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" - Horace Heidt 17. "Amapola" - Jimmy Dorsey 18. "There I Go" - Vaughn Monroe 19. "There'll Be Some Changes Made" - Benny Goodman ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1942 1. "White Christmas" - Bing Crosby 2. "Deep In The Heart of Texas" - Alveno Rey 3. "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover" - Kay Kyser 4. "Tangerine" - Jimmy Dorsey 5. "Paper Doll" - Mills Brothers 6. "Moonlight Cocktail" - Glenn Miller 7. "A String of Pearls" - Glen Miller 8. "Blues In The Night" - Dinah Shore or Woody Herman 9. "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)" - Glenn Miller 10. "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo" - Glenn Miller 11. "Jersey Bounce" - Benny Goodman 12. "Sleepy Lagoon" - Harry James 13. "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" - Kay Kyser 14. "Somebody Else Is Taking My Place" - Benny Goodman 15. "I Don't Want To Walk Without You" - Harry James 16. "Rose O'Day (The Filla-Da-Gusha Song)" - Freddy Martin 17. "I'll Remember April" - Woody Herman 18. "Who Wouldn't Love You?" - Kay Kyser 19. "My Devotion" - Vaughn Monroe 20. "Strip Polka" - Kay Kyser ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1943 1. "Oklahoma!" 2. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" - Bing Crosby 3. "Paper Doll" - Mills Brothers 4. "Two O'Clock Jump" - Harry James 5. "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home to" - Dinah Shore 6. "As Time Goes By" - Rudy Vallee 7. "I've Heard That Song Before" - Harry James 8. "That Old Black Magic" - Glenn Miller 9. "Artistry In Rhythm" - Stan Kenton 10. "I've Heard That Song Before" - Harry James 11. "Perdido" - Duke Ellington 12. "There Are Such Things" - Tommy Dorsey 13. "There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" - Jimmy Wakely 14. "Sunday, Monday or Always" - Bing Crosby 15. "Pistol Packin' Mama" - Al Dexter & His Troops 16. "You'll Never Know" - Dick Ames 17. "Mister Five By Five" - Harry James 18. "I Had The Craziest Dream" - Harry James 19. "When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)" - Vaughn Monroe 20. "Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition" - Kay Kyser ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1944 1. "So long pal" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 2. "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" - Bing Crosby 3. "Smoke on the water" - Red Foley 4. "Trolley Song" - Judy Garland 5. "Straighten up and fly right" - King Cole Trio 6. "Swinging On A Star" - Bing Crosby 7. "It Could Happen to You" - Jo Stafford 8. "Pistol packin' Mama" - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters 9. "Don't Fence Me In" - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisiters 10. "Is you is or is you ain't (ma baby)" - Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five 11. "Soldier's last letter" - Ernest Tubb 12. "You Always Hurt The One You Love" - Mills Brothers 13. "Ration blues" - Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five 14. "Twilight Time" - Les Brown 15. "Mairzy Doates" - Merry Macs 16. "Pistol packin' Mama" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 17. "My Heart Tells Me" - Glen Gray 18. "Too late to worry, too blue to cry" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 19. "Besame Mucho" - Jimmy Dorsey 20. "They took the stars out of heaven" - Floyd Tillman 21. "San Fernando Valley" - Bing Crosby 22. "Shoo-Shoo Baby" - Andrews Sisters 23. "I'll Walk Alone" - Dinah Shore 24. "I'm Making Believe" - Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots 25. "I'll Be Seeing You" - Bing Crosby 26. "G.I. Jive" - Louis Jordan 27. "My Heart Tells Me" - Glen Gray 28. "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" - Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots 29. "I Love You" - Bing Crosby 30. "It's Love-Love-Love" - Guy Lombardo ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1945 1. "Sentimental Journey" - Les Brown 2. "You two-timed me once too often" - Tex Ritter 3. "Rum and Coca-Cola" - Andrews Sisters 4. "Shame on you" - Spade Cooley 5. "At mail call today" - Gene Autry 6. "Opus One" - Tommy Dorsey 7. "I'm losing my mind over you" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 8. "On The Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" - Johnny Mercer 9. "I'm Beginning To See The Light" - Harry James 10. "Oklahoma hills" - Jack Guthrie & his Oklahomans 11. "I'm wasting my tears on you" - Tex Ritter 12. "There! I've Said It Again" - Vaughn Monroe 13. "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" - Les Brown 14. "Souix city Sue" - Dick Thomas 15. "Chickery Chick" - Sammy Kaye 16. "With tears in my eyes" - Wesley Tuttle 17. "It's been so long, darling" - Ernest Tubb 18. "It's Been a Long, Long Time" - Harry James or Bing Crosby 19. "I Can't Begin To Tell You" - Bing Crosby 20. "Silver dew on the blue grass tonight" - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys 21. "Candy" - Johnny Mercer 22. "Till The End Of Time" - Perry Como 23. "Dream" - Pied Pipers ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1946 1. "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" - Nat King Cole 2. "Guitar Polka (I)" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 3. "New Spanish two-step" - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys 4. "Oh! What it Semed To Be" - Frank Sinatra or Frankie Carle 5. "Divorce me C.O.D.*" - Merle Travis 6. "Personality" - Johnny Mercer 7. "To Each His Own" - Ink Spots or Freddy Martin 8. "Wine, women and song" - Al Dexter and his Troopers 9. "Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" - Stan Kenton 10. "You will have to pay" - Tex Ritter 11. "McNamara's Band" - Bing Crosby 12. "White cross on Okinawa" - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys 13. "Silver dew on the blue grass tonight*" - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys 14. "The Gypsy" - Ink Spots or Dinah Shore 15. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" - Vaughn Monroe 16. "Sioux city Sue" - Zeke Manners 17. "Someday (you'll want me to want you)" - Elton Britt 18. "Symphony" - Freddy Martin 19. "Prisoner of Love" - Perry Como 20. "That's how much I love you" - Eddy Arnold 21. "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" - Betty Hutton 22. "I'm a Big Girl Now" - Sammy Kaye 23. "Rumors Are Flying" - Frankie Carle 24. "Ole Buttermilk Sky" - Kay Kyser 25. "(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons" - Nat King Cole 26. "Five Minutes More" - Frank Sinatra ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1947 1. "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" - Tex Williams 2. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" 3. "Peg O My Heart" - Buddy Clark or Harmonicats 4. "So round, so firm, so fully packed" - Merle Travis 5. "I'll hold you in my heart (til I can hold you in my arms)" - Eddy Arnold 6. "Managua, Nicaragua" - Guy Lombardo 7. "It's a sin" - Eddy Arnold 8. "One O'Clock Jump" - Count Basie 9. "Anniversary Song" - Dinah Shore 10. "Near You" - Francis Craig 11. "Rainbow at midnight" - Ernest Tubb 12. "Ballerina" - Vaughn Monroe 13. "New jole blonde (new pretty blonde)" - Red Foley 14. "What is life without love" - Eddy Arnold 15. "Wiffenpoof Song" - Bing Crosby & Fred Waring 16. "Linda" - Ray Noble & Buddy Clark 17. "Sugar moona" - Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys 18. "Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)" - Red Ingle & the Natural Seven 19. "Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her-You Can Have Her-She's Too fat For Me)" - Arthur Godfrey 20. "Heartaches" - Ted Weems 21. "Mam'selle" - Frank Sinatra or Art Lund 22. "Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)" - Perry Como 23. "Open The Door, Richard!" - Count Basie or The Three Flames 24. "Huggin And Chalkin" - Hoagie Carmichael ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1948 1. "Bouquet of roses" - Eddy Arnold 2. "Buttons and Bows" - Dinah Shore 3. "I'll hold you in my heart (til I can hold you in my arms)" - Eddy Arnold 4. "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" - Art Mooney 5. "Anytime" - Eddy Arnold 6. "Sabre Dance Boogie" - Freddy Martin 7. "Just a little lovin' (will go a long, long way)" - Eddy Arnold 8. "Twelfth Street Rag" - Pee Wee Hunt 9. "I've Got My Love To keep Me Warm" - Les Brown 10. "One has my name (the other has my heart)*" - Jimmy Wakely 11. "Love Somebody" - Doris Day & Buddy Clark 12. "Texarkana baby" - Eddy Arnold 13. "A heart full of love (for a handful of kisses)" - Eddy Arnold 14. "It's Magic" - Doris Day 15. "Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me)" - Peggy Lee 16. "What a fool I was" - Eddy Arnold 17. "Nature Boy" - Nat King Cole 18. "Signed, sealed and delivered" - Cowboy Copas 20. "All I Want For Christmas is my Two Front Teeth" - Spike Jones 21. "Humpty dumpty heart" - Hank Thompson 22. "Now Is The Hour" - Bing Crosby 23. "You Can't Be True, Dear" - Ken Griffin 24. "Woody Woodpecker" - Kay Kyser 25. "You Call Everybody Darlin'" - Al Trace 26. "A Tree In The Meadow" - Margaret Whiting ************************************************************* Top 100 Hits of 1949 1. "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky" - Vaughn Monroe 2. "Lovesick blues" - Hank Williams 3. "Don't rob another man's castle" - Eddy Arnold 4. "That Lucky Old Sun" - Frankie Laine 5. "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" - Eddie 'Piano' Miller 6. "Slipping around" - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 7. "I love you so much it hurts" - Jimmy Wakely` 8. "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" - Les Brown 9. "'A' You're Adorable (the Alphabet Song)" - Perry Como 10. "I'm throwing rice (at the girl that I love)" - Eddy Arnold 11. "One has my name (the other has my heart)*" - Jimmy Wakely 12. "Some Enchanted Evening" - Perry Como 13. "Mule train" - Tennessee Ernie 14. "Mule Train" - Frankie Laine 15. "A Little Bird Told Me" - Evelyn Knight 16. "Candy kisses" - George Morgan 17. "Why don't you haul off and love me" - Wayne Raney 18. "You're Breaking My Heart" - Vic Damone 19. "Forever and Ever" - Russ Morgan 20. "One kiss too many" - Eddy Arnold 21. "Someday" - Vaughn Monroe 22. "Slippin' Around" - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely 23. "My Darling, My Darling" - Jo Stafford & Gordon Mcrae 24. "Careles Hands" - Mel Torme 25. "Cruisin' Down the River" - Russ Morgan or Blue Barron *************************************************************
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