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Music of the World War II Years
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 1942 Hit Parade Winners [ click a song to play it ] No. 1 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses) WHITE CHRISTMAS (36) Irving Berlin I DON'T WANT TO WALK WITHOUT YOU (12) Lyrics: Frank Loesser; Music: Jule Styne HE WEARS A PAIR OF SILVER WINGS (15) Eric Maschwitz and Michael Carr THERE ARE SUCH THINGS (18) Lyrics: Abel Baer and Stanley Adams Music: George W. Meyer DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS (12) Lyrics: June Hershey; Music: Don Swander MY DEVOTION (16) Roc Hillman and Johnny Nafton I'VE GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO (11) Lyrics: Mack Gordon; Music: Harry Warren JINGLE, JANGLE, JINGLE (14) Lyrics: Frank Loesser Music: Joseph J. Lilley DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE (12) Lyrics: Lew Brown and Charles Tobias Music: Sam Stept ONE DOZEN ROSES (14) Lyrics: Roger Lewis, Country Washburn Music: Dick Jurgens, Walter Donavan BLUES IN THE NIGHT (13) Lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Music: Harold Arlen SOMEBODY ELSE IS TAKING MY PLACE (12) Bob Ellsworth, Richard Howard, and Russ Morgan SLEEPY LAGOON (18) Lyrics: Jack Lawrence; Music: Eric Coates No. 2 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses) PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION (12) Frank Loesser BE CAREFUL, IT'S MY HEART (15) Irving Berlin I LEFT MY HEAT AT THE STAGE DOOR CANTEEN (12) Irving Berlin MISTER FIVE BY FIVE (10) Don Raye, Gene De Paul TANGERINE (13) Lyrics: Johnny Mercer Music: Victor Schertzinger WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN (17) Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus, Edward Seiler I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM (15) Lyrics: Mack Gordon Music: Harry Warren JOHNNY DOUGHBOY FOUND A ROSE IN IRELAND (16) Lyrics: Kay Twomey Music: Allan Roberts ROSE O'DAY (12) Al Lewis, Charles Tobias SKYLARK (12) Lyrics: Johnny Mercer Music: Hoagy Carmichael No. 3 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses) WHO WOULDN'T LOVE YOU (13) Lyrics: Bill Carey Music: Carl Fischer MANHATTAN SERENADE (11) Lyrics: Harold Adamson Music: Louis Alter WHY DON'T YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME (15) Lyrics: Al Lewis Music: Mabel Wayne DEARLY BELOVED (16) Lyrics: Johnny Mercer Music: Jerome Kern |
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1943 Hit Parade Winners
No. 1 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
MY HEART TELLS ME (19)
Lyrics: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
AS TIME GOES BY (21)
Herman Hupfield
SUNDAY, MONDAY, OR ALWAYS (18)
Lyrics: Johnny Burke
Music: James Van Heusen
l'VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE (15)
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
Music: Jule Styne
LET'S GET LOST (13)
Lyrics: Frank Loesser
Music: Jimmy McHugh
DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANY MORE (16)
Lyrics: Sidney Keith (Bob) Russell
Music: Duke Ellington
ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL (14)
Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence
ELMER'S TUNE (15)
Dick Jurgens, Sammy Gallop, and Elmer Albrecht
MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU (14)
Lyrics: Johnny Burke; Music: James Van Heusen
SHOO SHOO, BABY (17)
Phil Moore
No. 2 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
IN THE BLUE OF EVENING (18)
Lyrics: Thomas Adair
Music: Alfonso D'Artega
THEY'RE EITHER TOO YOUNG OR TOO OLD (12)
Lyrics: Frank Loesser
Music: Arthur Schwartz
PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA (14)
Al Dexter
OH, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNIN' (13)
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Music: Richard Rodgers
THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC (15)
Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
Music: Harold Arlen
No. 3 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
IT CAN'T BE WRONG (20)
Lyrics: Kim Gannon
Music: Max Steiner
I HEARD YOU CRIED LAST NIGHT (13)
Lyrics: Jerrie Kruger
Music: Ted Grouya
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1944 Hit Parade Winners
No. 1 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
I'LL BE SEEING YOU (24)
Lyrics: Irving Kahal
Music: Sammy Fain
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY (20)
Lyrics: Leo Robin
Music: Jerome Kern
BESAME MUCHO (14)
Lyrics: Sunny Skylar
Music: Consuelo Velazquez
IT'S LOVE, LOVE, LOVE (13)
Lyrics: Mack David
Music: Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney
I'LL WALK ALONE (20)
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
Music: Jule Styne
DON'T FENCE ME IN (16)
Cole Porter
MAIRZY DOATS (11)
Jerry Livingston, Al Hoffman and Milton Drake
DANCE WITH A DOLLY (15)
Jimmy Eaton, Terry Shand, and Mickey Leader
I COULDN'T SLEEP A WINK LAST NIGHT (10)
Lyrics: Harold Adamson
Music: Jimmy McHugh
I LOVE YOU (18)
Cole Porter
THE TROLLEY SONG (14)
Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin
AMOR (19)
Lyrics: Sunny Skylar
Music: Gabriel Ruiz
No. 2 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
SWINGING ON A STAR (19)
Lyrics: Johnny Burke
Music: James Van Heusen
IS YOU IS, OR IS YOU AIN'T, MA BABY? (12)
Louis Jordan and Billy Austin
THERE GOES THAT SONG AGAIN (12)
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
Music: James Van Heusen
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE (16)
Cliff Friend and Charles Tobias
POINCIANA (11)
Nat Simon and Buddy Bernier
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (14)
Gordon Jenkins
I DREAM OF YOU (14)
Marjorie Goetschius and Edna Osser
I'LL GET BY (22)
Lyrics: Roy Turk
Music: Fred E. Ahlert
I'M MAKING BELIEVE (15)
Lyrics: Mack Gordon
Music: James V. Monaco
No. 3 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
EASTER FARADE (7)
Irving Berlin
HOW MANY HEARTS HAVE YOU BROKEN (10)
Lyrics: Marty Symes
Music: Al Kaufman
TOGETHER (11)
Lyrics: Buddy De Sylva, Lew Brown
Music: Ray Henderson
NO LOVE, NO NOTHING (10)
Lyrics: Leo Robin
Music: Harry Warren
IT HAD TO BE YOU (12)
Lyrics: Gus Kahn
Music: Isham Jones
I'M CONFESSIN' THAT I LOVE YOU (3)
Lyrics: A. J. Neiburg
Music: Doc Dougherty and Ellis Reynolds
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1945 Hit Parade Winners
No. 1 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
SYMPHONY (19)
Lyrics: Jack Lawrence
Music: Alex Alstone
MY DREAMS ARE GETTING BETTER (15)
Lyrics: Mann Curtis
Music: Vic Mizzy
DREAM (19)
Johnny Mercer
ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE (12)
Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
Music: Harold Arlen
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY (16)
Les Brown, Ben Homer, and Bud Green
IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SPRING (14)
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Music: Richard Rodgers
IF I LOVED YOU (19)
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Music: Richard Rodgers
IT'S BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME (14)
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
Music: Jule Styne
TILL THE END OF TIME (19)
Lyrics: Buddy Kaye
Music: Ted Mossman
CANDY (12)
Lyrics: Mack David
Music: Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer
I'LL BUY THAT DREAM (13)
Lyrics: Herb Magidson
Music: Allie Wrubel
THE MORE I SEE YOU (11)
Lyrics: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
A LITTLE ON THE LONELY SIDE (12)
Dick Robertson, James Cavanaugh, and Frank Weldon
I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT (11)
Duke Ellington, Harry James, Johnny Hodges, and Don George
I CAN'T BEGIN TO TELL YOU (17)
Lyrics: Mack Gordon
Music: James V. Monaco
No. 2 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
ON THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND THE SANTA FE (14)
Lyrics: Johnny Mercer
Music: Harry Warren
I WISH I KNEW (11)
Lyrics: Mack Gordon
Music: Harry Warren
SATURDAY NIGHT IS THE LONELIEST NIGHT (10)
Lyrics: Sammy Cahn
Music: Jule Styne
THERE,I'VE SAID IT AGAIN (8)
Redd Evans and Dave Mann
THAT'S FOR ME (13)
Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
Music: Richard Rodgers
No. 3 Songs (total weeks on chart in parentheses)
ALONG THE NAVAJO TRAIL (10)
Dick Charles, Larry Markes and Edgar De Lange
BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS (12)
Moe Jaffe
I'M GONNA LOVE THAT GUY (GAL) (9)
Frances Ash
GOTTA BE THIS OR THAT (12)
Sunny Skylar
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