Number 1 on the Hit Parade
Joe Kuhl
Date song hit # 1 on the Billboard Hit Parade (Data thanks to Bob Moke
postings)
Date: Title: Artist:
July 27, 1940 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN Tommy Dorsey v/Frank
Sinatra/Pied Pipers
October 19, 1940 ONLY FOREVER Bing Crosby
December 21, 1940 FRENESI Artie Shaw
March 15, 1941 SONG OF THE VOLGA BOATMAN Glenn Miller
March 29, 1941 AMAPOLA Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly /Helen O'Connell
June 7, 1941 MY SISTER AND I Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly
June 14, 1941 MARIA ELENA Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly
June 21, 1941 DADDY Sammy Kaye v/Kaye Choir
August 30, 1941 GREEN EYES Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly/Helen O'Connell
September 27, 1941 BLUE CHAMPAGNE Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly
October 4, 1941 PIANO CONCERTO IN B FLAT Freddy Martin
November 29, 1941 CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO Glenn Miller v/Tex
Beneke/Modernaires
December 20, 1941 ELMER'S TUNE Glenn Miller v/Ray Eberle/Modernaires
February 7, 1942 STRING OF PEARLS Glenn Miller
February 14, 1942 BLUES IN THE NIGHT Woody Herman v/Woody Herman
February 28, 1942 MOONLIGHT COCKTAIL Glenn Miller v/Ray
Eberle/Modernaires
May 9, 1942 TANGERINE Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly/Helen
O'Connell
June 20, 1942 SLEEPY LAGOON Harry James
July 18, 1942 JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE Kay Kyser v/Harry
Babbitt/Julie Conway
September 12, 1942 KALAMAZOO Glenn Miller v/Marion Hutton/ Tex
Beneke/Modernaires
October 31, 1942 WHITE CHRISTMAS Bing Crosby
January 16, 1943 THERE ARE SUCH THINGS Tommy Dorsey v/Frank
Sinatra/Pied Pipers
February 13, 1943 I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM Harry James v/Helen Forrest
March 6, 1943 I'VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE Harry James v/Helen
Forrest
May 29, 1943 THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC Glenn Miller v/Skip
Nelson/Modernaires
June 12, 1943 TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE Benny Goodman v/Helen
Forrest
July 3, 1943 COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER Song Spinners
July 24, 1943 YOU'LL NEVER KNOW Dick Haymes/Song Spinners
August 21, 1943 IN THE BLUE OF EVENING Tommy Dorsey v/Frank Sinatra
September 11, 1943 SUNDAY MONDAY OR ALWAYS Bing Crosby
October 30, 1943 PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA Al Dexter
November 6, 1943 PAPER DOLL Mills Brothers
January 29, 1944 MY HEART TELLS ME Glen Gray v/Eugenie Baird
March 4, 1944 BESAME MUCHO Jimmy Dorsey v/Bob Eberly/Kitty Kallen
April 22, 1944 IT'S LOVE LOVE LOVE Guy Lombardo v/Skip
Nelson/Trio
May 6, 1944 I LOVE YOU Bing Crosby
June 10, 1944 I'LL GET BY Harry James v/Dick Haymes
July 1, 1944 I'LL BE SEEING YOU Bing Crosby
August 5, 1944 SWINGING ON A STAR Bing Crosby
October 7, 1944 YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE Mills Brothers
October 14, 1944 I'LL WALK ALONE Dinah Shore
December 9, 1944 I'M MAKING BELIEVE Ink Spots/Ella Fitzgerald
December 23, 1944 DON'T FENCE ME IN Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters
February 10, 1945 RUM AND COCA-COLA Andrews Sisters
April 7, 1945 MY DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME Les
Brown v/
Doris Day
May 26, 1945 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Les Brown v/Doris Day
July 28, 1945 ON THE ATCHISON TOPEKA & SANTA FE Johnny
Mercer/Pied Pipers
September 15, 1945 TILL THE END OF TIME Perry Como
November 17, 1945 CHICKERY CHICK Sammy Kaye v/Billy Williams
/Nancy Norman/Band
November 24, 1945 IT'S BEEN A LONG LONG TIME Harry James v/Kitty Kallen
January 5, 1946 SYMPHONY Freddy Martin v/Clyde Rogers
January 19, 1946 I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU Bing Crosby/Carmen Cavallaro
January 26, 1946 LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW Vaughn Monroe
March 2, 1946 DOCTOR LAWYER INDIAN CHIEF Betty Hutton
March 9, 1946 PERSONALITY Johnny Mercer/Pied Pipers
March 16, 1946 OH WHAT IT SEEMED TO BE Frankie Carle v/Marjorie
Hughes
April 27, 1946 I'M A BIG GIRL NOW Sammy Kaye v/Betty Barclay
May 4, 1946 PRISONER OF LOVE Perry Como
May 25, 1946 THE GYPSY Ink Spots
August 3, 1946 SURRENDER Perry Como
August 10, 1946 TO EACH HIS OWN Eddy Howard
September 14, 1946 FIVE MINUTES MORE Frank Sinatra
October 19, 1946 RUMORS ARE FLYING Frankie Carle v/Marjorie Hughes
December 14, 1946 OLE BUTTERMILK SKY Kay Kyser v/Michael Douglas/Campus Kids
December 28, 1946 THE OLD LAMPLIGHTER Sammy Kaye v/Billy Williams
February 15, 1947 FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS King Cole Trio
February 22, 1947 OPEN THE DOOR RICHARD Count Basie v/Harry Edison/Bill
Johnson
March 1, 1947 MANAGUA NICARAGUA Freddy Martin v/Johnny
Cochran/ensemble
March 15, 1947 HEARTACHES Ted Weems
June 7, 1947 MAM'SELLE Art Lund
June 21, 1947 PEG O' MY HEART Harmonicats
June 28, 1947 CHI-BABA, CHI-BABA Perry Como
August 9, 1947 SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE) Tex Williams
September 20, 1947 NEAR YOU Francis Craig v/Bob Lamm
December 13, 1947 BALLERINA Vaughn Monroe
February 21, 1948 I'M LOOKING OVER A 4-LEAF CLOVER Art Mooney v/Choir
March 13, 1948 MANANA Peggy Lee
May 15, 1948 NATURE BOY King Cole
July 3, 1948 WOODY WOODPECKER Kay Kyser v/Gloria Wood
August 14, 1948 YOU CALL EVERYBODY DARLIN' Al Trace v/Bob Vincent
August 28, 1948 TWELFTH STREET RAG Pee Wee Hunt
October 9, 1948 TREE IN THE MEADOW Margaret Whiting
November 6, 1948 BUTTONS AND BOWS Dinah Shore
January 8, 1949 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS Spike Jones v/George Rock
January 22, 1949 A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME Evelyn Knight
March 12, 1949 CRUISING DOWN THE RIVER Blue Barron v/Ensemble
May 7, 1949 No Data available for this week and the next 2 weeks
May 28, 1949 RIDERS IN THE SKY Vaughn Monroe
July 30, 1949 SOME ENCHANTED EVENING Perry Como
September 24, 1949 YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART Vic Damone
October 1, 1949 THAT LUCKY OLD SUN Frankie Laine
November 26, 1949 MULE TRAIN Frankie Laine
January 7, 1950 RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER Gene Autry
January 14, 1950 I CAN DREAM CAN'T I Andrews Sisters oc/Gordon Jenkins
February 11, 1950 RAG MOP Ames Brothers
February 18, 1950 CHATTANOOGIE SHOE SHINE BOY Red Foley
March 18, 1950 MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC Teresa Brewer
April 15, 1950 IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMIN' (I'D'VE BAKED A CAKE)
Eileen Barton
April 29, 1950 THIRD MAN THEME Anton Karas
July 15, 1950 MONA LISA Nat "King" Cole
August 19, 1950 GOODNIGHT, IRENE Weavers/Gordon Jenkins
November 18, 1950 HARBOR LIGHTS Sammy Kaye v/Tony Alamo/Kaydets
December 2, 1950 THE THING Phil Harris
December 30, 1950 TENNESSEE WALTZ Patti Page
March 3, 1951 IF Perry Como
March 10, 1951 BE MY LOVE Mario Lanza
April 21, 1951 HOW HIGH THE MOON Les Paul & Mary Ford
June 23, 1951 TOO YOUNG Nat "King" Cole
July 28, 1951 COME ON-A MY HOUSE Rosemary Clooney
September 8, 1951 BECAUSE OF YOU Tony Bennett
November 3, 1951 COLD COLD HEART Tony Bennett
December 15, 1951 (IT'S NO) SIN Eddy Howard
December 29, 1951 CRY Johnnie Ray w/Four Lads
March 15, 1952 WHEEL OF FORTUNE Kay Starr
May 17, 1952 BLUE TANGO Leroy Anderson
June 7, 1952 HERE IN MY HEART Al Martino
July 5, 1952 DELICADO Percy Faith
July 12, 1952 AUF WIEDERSEH'N SWEETHEART Vera Lynn
September 13, 1952 YOU BELONG TO ME Jo Stafford
October 18, 1952 I WENT TO YOUR WEDDING Patti Page
November 22, 1952 IT'S IN THE BOOK Johnny Standley
November 29, 1952 WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME Joni James
December 27, 1952 I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS Jimmy Boyd
January 10, 1953 DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES Perry Como
February 14, 1953 TILL I WALTZ AGAIN WITH YOU Teresa Brewer
March 21, 1953 THE DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW Patti Page
May 16, 1953 SONG FROM MOULIN ROUGE Percy Faith v/Felicia Sanders
July 25, 1953 I'M WALKING BEHIND YOU Eddie Fisher
August 8, 1953 VAYA CON DIOS Les Paul & Mary Ford
October 10, 1953 ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONET Stan Freberg
November 21, 1953 RAGS TO RICHES Tony Bennett
January 2, 1954 OH MY PAPA Eddie Fisher
February 27, 1954 SECRET LOVE Doris Day
March 13, 1954 MAKE LOVE TO ME Jo Stafford
April 10, 1954 WANTED Perry Como
June 5, 1954 LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT Kitty Kallen
August 7, 1954 SH-BOOM Crew-Cuts
September 25, 1954 HEY THERE Rosemary Clooney
November 6, 1954 THIS OLE HOUSE Rosemary Clooney
November 13, 1954 I NEED YOU NOW Eddie Fisher
December 4, 1954 MISTER SANDMAN Chordettes
The formatting isn't the best here, if you like, I could e-mail a MS-Word
file
Joe K
Hit Parade
Subject: Number 1 on the Hit Parade
From: "Joe Kuhl" <joe...@oxford.net>
Date: Fri, Apr 24, 1998 08:10 EDT
Date song hit # 1 on the Billboard Hit Parade (Data thanks to Bob Moke
postings)
Date: Title: Artist:
July 27, 1940 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN Tommy Dorsey
Dear Joe,
The dates you are using are WRONG by one week. "I'll Never Smile Again" was #1
for the first week, week ending July 20, 1940. People who received the
magazines, or who listened to radio broadcasts referring to the chart would
have known it as July 20. I personally re-dated all of Bob Moke's charts.
The date was advanced by an editor to help BILLBOARD and CASH BOX magazines to
SELL magazines.
Starting Saturday July 14, 1951, I physically wrote down the charts on Saturday
mornings all through the 50s and the dates that the Country followed were The
Saturday Date, a week earlier.
For history sake it is important that you get it right.
Please change your dates.
Thanks.
GCarras
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Once again,iI find out just how misleading the stll truly good intentioned JKoe
Hwitburn is. I had exprected Kay Kser doign Strp Polka(1942) (although with the
use of various charts in the POP MEMORIES bOOK,the Whitburn book just cited,I
should have known better./.:)).This is form Bill board..of cours.e.If only
Whitburn could dop like in this opther books,ID which charts each posituion was
taken from>
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benefit...or at least proof-read your notes before you send them. Your notes may
be well intended, but you're driving us nuts with 99% misspelled words in your
notes.
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GCarras wrote:
> ><HTML><PRE>Subject: Number 1 on the Hit Parade
> >From: "Joe Kuhl" <joe...@oxford.net>
> >Date: Fri, Apr 24, 1998 08:10 EDT
> >Message-id: <6hpvj7$nva$1...@supernews.com>
> >
PPeek3
>: Please! Either take a typing course and learn to type for our
I had a question I wanted to ask, dut I dont have a music degree.
Can I still ask it here?
Perry
Joe Kuhl
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>Subject: Number 1 on the Hit Parade
>From: "Joe Kuhl" <joe...@oxford.net>
>Date: Fri, Apr 24, 1998 08:10 EDT
>
>Date song hit # 1 on the Billboard Hit Parade (Data thanks to Bob Moke
>postings)
>
>Date: Title: Artist:
>July 27, 1940 I'LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN Tommy Dorsey
>
>Dear Joe,
>
>The dates you are using are WRONG by one week. "I'll Never Smile Again" was
#1
>for the first week, week ending July 20, 1940. People who received the
>magazines, or who listened to radio broadcasts referring to the chart
would
>have known it as July 20. I personally re-dated all of Bob Moke's charts.
>
>The date was advanced by an editor to help BILLBOARD and CASH BOX magazines
to
>SELL magazines.
Thank you for the information. Perhaps I should have put more emphasis on
the fact that these listing was compiled from the posting done by Bob Moke
and as I understand it, the July 27 was the first issue of Billboard.
My reason for posting the list was it gives a capsule look at the change in
music, style and artists
over the 14 plus years of the posting. I have the complete posting by Bob
and though it is great and without it my compilation wouldn't exist, it
printed out to over 300 pages.
In future posts, perhaps I should include the following.
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RickC50
Hi guys! I just wanted to point out that the list of top hits posted should
not be referred to as the "Hit Parade." That was a totally separate list which
reflected the top songs as compiled (with some question) by the American
Tobacco Co. for the radio program "Your Hit Parade." The Billboard list
referred to top selling records, not songs. And as often was the case, the Hit
Parade top ten and Billboard top ten did not usually agree!!
Rick Colom
GCarras
><HTML><PRE>Subject: Re: Number 1 on the Hit Parade
>From: "Joe Kuhl" <joe...@oxford.net>
>Date: Sat, Apr 25, 1998 13:49 EDT
>Message-id: <6ht7ut$s1i$1...@supernews.com>
Important to those like me,who read Joel Whitburn's Pop memories (1986,olive
coverRecord Research,covers 1890-1954 period) -the book's chart
positions,number one and otherwise,are taken from ALL sources.Including radio
popularity and juke box popularity.
Now as to magazines,Record World and some others existed,for my two cents,but
Billboard and Cashbox were the apparent biggies,and radio and juke box sales as
well.
Of course, some,like Glenn Miller's IN THE MOOD (1940 and Bing Crosby's WHITE
CHRISTMAS (1942 and annually,both,.of course,available even today at vinyl
record stores,and both among pereniall best seller,especially among nostalgia
fans and collectors like your truly) were automatic Billboard chart toppers and
in fact IN THE MOOD hit just in time for Billboard chart posting.s
That's right,it wasn't until 1940,.for those who still don't know or who have
forgotten that Billboard charts first appeared.
before,Cashbox,radio,jukebox,and so forth were the survey charts used,by
sources oft ime and in Joel Whitburn;s book.(see above).
Perhaps Mr.Whitburn should revise with speficis,whether he uses Billboard (of
course in which case 1940 would be the earliest starting point),or just do a
Billboard listings of pre-rock tunes.
Maybe such a list as the latter-suggested SHOULD have been included in
Whitburn's book,as it exists--too bad it doesn't,at least of number ones.Of
course it does cover the 1890-1954 period ,predating the most important source,
MAGAZINE,,not the 1940-1954 period,so one can't expect a more specific list,but
it would've been cool if there had been specificis as to which were used.
Whitburn does do this in his other books,BTW,and he did do a 1940-1955
Billboard book).
GCarras
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