Friday, February 24, 2023

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1930-1939

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1930-1939

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1930 to 1939. Songs could have hit #1 on any of these charts:

The date indicates the song’s first appearance at #1, regardless of which chart it was. The act associated with the song is then listed. Neither the Gardner book nor the Your Hit Parade charts refer to specific artists, so the artists identified here are those which also hit #1 on another chart, are the highest-ranked version according to Dave’s Music Database, or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner.

Then come the letter codes indicating which charts the song topped. The number following that is the number of weeks at #1. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been adjusted by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. The Mawer charts are drawn from different sources, including Your Hit Parade and USA Weekly – sometimes referencing more than one chart for a single song. They also reference a bi-weekly chart (in which case weeks at #1 have been doubled), which may have been created by Mawer or may be from a non-credited source.

Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here.

1930:

  1. 1/4: Leo Reisman “I’ll See You Again” (SM: 2)
  2. 1/11: Roy Ingrahma “Chant of the Jungle” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  3. 2/1: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, Harry Barris, & Jack Fulton “I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  4. 2/1: Ted Weems with Art Jarrett & Parker Gibbs “The Man from the South with a Big Cigar in His Mouth” (PM: 1)
  5. 2/8: Benny Meroff with Dusty Rhoades “Happy Days Are Here Again” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  6. 2/15: Ben Selvin “Happy Days Are Here Again” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  7. 3/1: Harry Richman “Puttin’ on the Ritz” (PM: 1)
  8. 3/22: Rudy Vallee “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (PM: 10, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  9. 4/19: Leo Reisman “What Is This Thing Called Love?” (SM: 1)
  10. 4/26: Ruth Etting “Exactly Like You” (SM: 4)
  11. 5/24: Frank Luther with Carson Robison (as Bud & Joe Billings) “When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver” (GA: 4, SM: 7)
  12. 5/31: Hilo Hawaiian Orchestra with Frank Luther & Carson Robison “When It's Springtime in the Rockies” (PM: 2, SM: 4)
  13. 6/14: Ben Selvin “When It's Springtime in the Rockies” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  14. 6/14: Bert Lown “Bye Bye Blues” (SM: 2)
  15. 6/28: Earl Burtnett “So Beats My Heart for You” (SM: 2)
  16. 7/1: Nat Shilkret with Lewis James “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” (PM: 7, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  17. 7/12: Smith Ballew & His Orchestra “Time on My Hands (You in My Arms)” (SM: 4)
  18. 8/23: Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “Little White Lies” (PM: 6, GA: 12, SM: 10)
  19. 9/20: George Olsen with Bob Borger “Beyond the Blue Horizon” (SM: 3)
  20. 9/20: McKinney’s Cotton Pickers with George Thomas “If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight” (PM: 2)
  21. 10/4: John Boles with Leroy Shield “For You” (SM: 2)
  22. 10/18: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Body and Soul” (PM: 6, SM: 3)
  23. 11/8: Duke Ellington with the Rhythm Boys (Bing Crosby, Al Rinker, & Harry Barris) “Three Little Words” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  24. 11/29: Tom Gerun & His Orchestra “Cheerful Little Earful” (SM: 1)
  25. 12/6: Red Nichols with Dick Robertson “Embraceable You” (SM: 5)
  26. 12/20: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “You’re Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)” (PM: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)

1931:

  1. 1/17: Don Azpiazu with Arturo Machin “The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero)” (PM: 4)
  2. 1/31: Libby Holman “Something to Remember You By” (SM: 5)
  3. 2/14: Ted Lewis “Just a Gigolo” (PM: 2, GA: 8)
  4. 3/7: Libby Holman “Love for Sale” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/21: Leo Reisman with Frances Maddux “Someday I’ll Find You” (SM: 4)
  6. 3/21: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “By the River St. Marie” (PM: 3)
  7. 4/4: Cab Calloway “Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song)” (PM: 1)
  8. 4/18: Gus Arnheim with Bing Crosby “I Surrender Dear” (SM: 3)
  9. 4/18: Isham Jones “Stardust” (PM: 1)
  10. 4/25: Wayne King with Ernie Burchill “Dream a Little Dream of Me” (PM: 4, SM: 2)
  11. 5/1: Wayne King “The Waltz You Saved for Me” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 5/9: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Out of Nowhere” (PM: 3, SM: 4)
  13. 6/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “There Ought to Be a Moonlight Saving Time” (PM: 3, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  14. 6/6: Gene Austin with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra “When Your Lover has Gone” (SM: 1)
  15. 6/27: Fred Waring with Clare Hanlon “I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store” (PM: 3, SM: 3)
  16. 6/27: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Just One More Chance” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  17. 7/18: Fred Waring’s Pennyslvanians “Dancing in the Dark” (SM: 3)
  18. 8/1: Kate Smith “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” (PM: 2, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  19. 8/8: Bing Crosby “At Your Command” (PM: 3)
  20. 8/22: Gus Arnheim with Donald Novis “Sweet and Lovely” (PM: 6, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  21. 10/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Sweet and Lovely” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  22. 10/17: Wayne King “Goodnight, Sweetheart” (PM: 7, GA: 12)
  23. 11/30: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Goodnight, Sweetheart” (PM: 2, GA: 12)
  24. 12/12: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Mildred Bailey “All of Me” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  25. 12/19: The Mills Brothers “Tiger Rag” (PM: 4)

1932:

  1. 1/9: Leo Reisman with Francis Maddux “Paradise” (PM: 6, GA: 12, SM: 7)
  2. 1/16: Kate Smith with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “River Stay ‘Way from My Door” (PM: 2)
  3. 1/30: Bing Crosby with the Mills Brothers “Dinah” (PM: 2)
  4. 2/1: Louis Armstrong “Home (When Shadows Fall)” (SM: 2)
  5. 2/27: Ruby Newman with Gordon Graham “My Silent Love” (SM: 5)
  6. 2/28: Louis Armstrong “All of Me” (PM: 2, GA: 4)
  7. 3/1: Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers “Was That the Human Thing to Do?” (SM: 2)
  8. 3/15: Morton Downey “Auf Wiederseh’n, My Dear” (SM: 4)
  9. 3/19: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Too Many Tears” (GA: 4, PM: 2)
  10. 3/26: Russ Columbo with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra “Just Friends” (SM: 2)
  11. 3/31: Bert Lown “Was That the Human Thing to Do?” (GA: 4)
  12. 4/16: Fred Waring’s Pennyslvanians “Soft Lights and Sweet Music” (SM: 4)
  13. 4/30: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Paradise” (PM: 3, GA: 12)
  14. 4/30: Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” (SM: 2)
  15. 5/28: Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (PM: 10, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  16. 6/4: George Olsen “Lullaby of the Leaves” (PM: 2, SM: 4)
  17. 7/9: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “How Deep Is the Ocean?” (SM: 2)
  18. 7/30: Isham Jones with Frank Hazzard “Just a Little Street Where Old Friends Meet” (SM: 5)
  19. 8/27: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye” (PM: 5, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  20. 9/3: Bing Crosby “Just an Echo in the Valley” (GA: 4, SM: 6)
  21. 9/10: George Olsen with Paul Small “Say It Isn’t So” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  22. 10/15: Bing Crosby with Anson Weeks’ Orchestra “Please” (PM: 6, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  23. 11/1: Rudy Vallee “Let’s Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  24. 11/26: Bing Crosby with Lennie Hayton’s Orchestra “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (PM: 2)
  25. 12/10: Jack Denny with Paul Small “I’ve Told Every Little Star” (SM: 3)
  26. 12/10: Rudy Vallee “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (PM: 2)
  27. 12/24: Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Night and Day” (PM: 10, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  28. 12/31: Jack Denny with Paul Small “The Song Is You” (SM: 2)

1933:

  1. 2/11: Freddy Martin with Elmer Feldkamp “April in Paris” (SM: 4)
  2. 3/4: Bing Crosby with Guy Lombardo’s Orchestra “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me” (PM: 4)
  3. 3/11: Gene Autry “Ole Faithful” (SM: 1)
  4. 3/25: Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  5. 4/1: Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Dudley Mecum “42nd Street” (PM: 3)
  6. 4/22: Leo Reisman with Harold Arlen “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (PM: 8, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  7. 4/22: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Jack Fulton “Lover” (SM: 2)
  8. 5/6: Joe Green’s Novelty Orchestra “In the Valley of the Moon” (GA: 4, SM: 3)
  9. 6/17: Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  10. 7/1: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier’s Orchestra “Shadow Waltz” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  11. 7/8: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Under a Blanket of Blue” (SM: 2)
  12. 7/15: Ted Lewis “Lazy Bones” (PM: 4, GA: 4)
  13. 7/15: Duke Ellington “Sophisticated Lady” (SM: 2)
  14. 8/5: Don Redman with Harlan Lattimore “Lazy Bones” (GA: 4, SM: 6)
  15. 8/19: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Love Is the Sweetest Thing” (PM: 5, SM: 3)
  16. 9/9: Don Bestor & His Orchestra with Florence Case, Frank Sherryl, & Charles Yontz “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” (SM: 1)
  17. 9/23: George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (PM: 9, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  18. 10/28: Leo Reisman “By a Waterfall” (SM: 3)
  19. 10/31: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “The Last Round-Up” (PM: 3, GA: 8)
  20. 11/18: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “It’s the Talk of the Town” (SM: 1)
  21. 11/25: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “If I Love Again” (SM: 3)
  22. 12/1: Henry King with Joe Study “Good Night Little Girl of My Dreams” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  23. 12/15: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?” (PM: 3, SM: 4)
  24. 1/20: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (PM: 6, SM: 5)

1934:

  1. 1/6: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel” (PM: 3, GA: 16, SM: 12)
  2. 2/24: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Let’s Fall in Love” (PM: 5, SM: 2)
  3. 2/24: Bing Crosby “Temptation (Tim-Tay-Shun)” (SM: 3)
  4. 3/3: Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Mercellino “My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii” (PM: 1, SM: 2)
  5. 3/31: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Bob Lawrence “Wagon Wheels” (PM: 1, SM: 3)
  6. 3/31: Enric Madriguera with Patricia Gillmore “The Carioca” (PM: 2)
  7. 4/14: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Grier’s Orchestra “Little Dutch Mill” (PM: 5, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  8. 4/21: Ben Pollack with Doris Robbins “The Beat of My Heart” (SM: 3)
  9. 5/12: Duke Ellington “Cocktails for Two” (PM: 5)
  10. 5/12: Emil Coleman with Jerry Cooper “Little Man, You’ve Hada Busy Day” (SM: 1)
  11. 5/16: Bing Crosby with Nat Finston’s Orchestra “Love Thy Neighbor” (SM: 4)
  12. 6/9: Ted Fio Rito with Muzzy Mercellino “I’ll String Along with You” (PM: 5, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  13. 6/16: Rudy Vallee “Lost in a Fog” (SM: 6)
  14. 7/7: Benny Goodman “Moonglow” (PM: 1)
  15. 7/14: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Very Thought of You” (PM: 5)
  16. 7/14: Jan Garber with Fritz Heilbron “All I Do Is Dream of You” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/28: The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with Bob Crosby “What a Diff’rence a Day Makes” (SM: 2)
  18. 8/1: Jan Garber with Fritz Heilbron “All I Do Is Dream of You” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  19. 8/11: Leo Reisman with George Bueler “With My Eyes Wide Open, ‘Dreaming” (SM: 2)
  20. 8/18: Bing Crosby with Irving Aaronson’s Orchestra “Love in Bloom” (PM: 6, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  21. 8/25: Grace Moore “One Night of Love” (PM: 4, SM: 3)
  22. 9/5: Freddy Martin with Elmer Feldkamp “I Saw Stars” (PM: 4)
  23. 9/15: Johnny Green with George Bouler “Two Cigarettes in the Dark” (SM: 3)
  24. 10/6: Ben Selvin with Howard Phillips “I Only Have Eyes for You” (SM: 4)
  25. 10/27: Leo Reisman “The Continental (You Kiss While We're Dancing)” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  26. 11/10: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Stars Fell on Alabama” (PM: 4, SM: 3)
  27. 12/1: Jimmie Grier with Harry Foster “Stay As Sweet As You Are” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  28. 12/8: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “June in January” (PM: 7, SM: 4)
  29. 12/29: Jimmie Grier with Pinky Tomlin “The Object of My Affection” (PM: 2, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  30. 12/29: George Hall with Sonny Schuyler “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (SM: 1)

1935:

  1. 1/12: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “Isle of Capri” (PM: 7, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  2. 1/26: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “Blue Moon” (PM: 3, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  3. 1/26: The Boswell Sisters “The Object of My Affection” (PM: 2, GA: 4)
  4. 2/2: Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra with Ramona Davies “I Get a Kick Out of You” (SM: 2)
  5. 3/23: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Lovely to Look At” (PM: 4, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  6. 3/30: Henry Busse “Lookie Lookie Lookie, Here Comes Cookie” (SM: 1)
  7. 4/6: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “I Won’t Dance” (PM: 3, SM: 2)
  8. 4/13: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “It’s Easy to Remember” (PM: 2)
  9. 4/15: The Dorsey Brothers with Bob Crosby “Lullaby of Broadway” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 4/20: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Soon” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  11. 5/15: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream” (PM: 4, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  12. 5/18: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “What’s the Reason I'm Not Pleasing You?” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  13. 6/1: Ozzie Nelson “About a Quartet to Nine” (GA: 4, SM: 4)
  14. 6/1: Ruth Etting “Life Is a Song” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  15. 6/15: Bob Crosby with Frank Tennille “In a Little Gypsy Tea Room” (PM: 3, HP: 2, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  16. 6/22: The Dorsey Brothers with Bob Eberly “Chasing Shadows” (PM: 3, HP: 4, SM: 5)
  17. 6/22: Victor Young with Hal Burke & the Tune Twisters “She’s a Latin from Manhattan” (PM: 4)
  18. 7/20: Ray Noble & the Freshmen “Let’s Swing It” (PM: 2)
  19. 7/27: Hal Hemp with Skinnay Ennis “In the Middle of a Kiss” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  20. 8/3: Jimmie Lunceford with Willie Smith “Rhythm Is Our Business” (PM: 1)
  21. 8/10: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (PM: 11, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  22. 8/10: Ray Noble & Al Bowlly “Paris in the Spring” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  23. 8/17: Ozzie Nelson “And Then Some” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  24. 8/24: Tom Coakley with Carl Ravazza “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  25. 8/31: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “You’re All I Need” (HP: 2, SM: 1)
  26. 9/7: Little Jack Little “I’m in the Mood for Love” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  27. 10/19: Fats Waller “Truckin’” (PM: 3)
  28. 11/2: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “You Are My Lucky Star” (PM: 3, HP: 3, SM: 3)
  29. 11/15: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  30. 11/23: Bing Crosby with Victor Young’s Orchestra “Red Sails in the Sunset” (PM: 2, , HP: 4, GA: 4)
  31. 11/30: Tommy Dorsey with Edyth Wright “On Treasure Island” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  32. 12/28: Fats Waller “A Little Bit Independent” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)

1936:

  1. 1/4: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (PM: 5, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  2. 1/4: Riley-Farley Orchestra with Mike Reilly “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (PM: 3, HP: 3, GA: 4)
  3. 2/1: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Moon Over Miami” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  4. 2/8: Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone” (PM: 7, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  5. 2/29: Jan Garber with Lew Palmer “A Beautiful Lady in Blue” (PM: 2)
  6. 3/7: Eddy Duchin with Lew Sherwood “Lights Out (Close Your Eyes and Dream of Me)” (PM: 1, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  7. 3/14: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody” (PM: 6, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  8. 4/4: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “I’m Putting All My Eggs in One Basket” (PM: 1)
  9. 4/11: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “It’s Been So Long” (PM: 2)
  10. 4/25: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Lost” (PM: 2, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  11. 5/9: Jan Gaber with Leo Bennett “A Melody from the Sky” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 2)
  12. 5/23: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “You” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  13. 5/30: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “The Glory of Love” (PM: 6, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  14. 6/1: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Is It True What They Say About Dixie” (PM: 4, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  15. 6/6: Fats Waller “All My Life” (PM: 1)
  16. 7/11: Hal Kemp “There’s a Small Hotel” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/15: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  18. 7/18: Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper “Take My Heart” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 4)
  19. 7/25: Fats Waller “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” (PM: 4, GA: 4)
  20. 8/15: Shep Fields with Charles Chester “Did I Remember?” (PM: 4, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  21. 8/15: Hal Kemp with Skinnay Ennis “When I’m with You” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  22. 8/22: Andy Kirk with Pha Terrell “Until the Real Thing Comes Along” (PM: 2)
  23. 9/5: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “A Fine Romance (A Sarcastic Love Song)” (PM: 5)
  24. 10/3: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “The Way You Look Tonight” (PM: 6, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  25. 10/10: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “When Did You Leave Heaven?” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  26. 11/14: Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “You Turned the Tables on Me” (PM: 2)
  27. 11/28: Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (PM: 10, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  28. 12/5: Eddy Duchin with Jimmy Newell “I’ll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  29. 12/12: Shep Fields “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” (PM: 2, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)

1937:

  1. 1/2: Eddy Duchin with Jerry Cooper “It’s De-Lovely” (PM: 2, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  2. 2/6: Benny Goodman with Ella Fitzgerald “Goodnight My Love” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  3. 2/20: Hal Hemp with Skinnay Ennis “This Year’s Kisses” (PM: 4)
  4. 2/20: Henry Busse with Bob Hannon “With Plenty of Money and You (Oh! Baby What I Couldn't Do)” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  5. 2/27: Benny Goodman with Margaret McRae “This Year’s Kisses” (PM: 3, HP: 3, SM: 2)
  6. 3/13: Guy Lombardo “When My Dream Boat Comes Home” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  7. 3/15: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “Moonlight and Shadows” (SM: 2)
  8. 3/27: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Marie” (PM: 2)
  9. 4/1: Guy Lombardo “Boo Hoo” (PM: 5, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  10. 4/17: Bing Crosby with Lani McIntyre & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani” (PM: 10)
  11. 4/24: Bing Crosby with Jimmy Dorsey’s Orchestra “Too Marvelous for Words” (PM: 1)
  12. 5/1: Fred Astaire with Johnny Greer’s Orchestra “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (PM: 1)
  13. 5/15: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain” (PM: 4, HP: 5, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  14. 5/15: Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson’s Orchestra “Carelessly” (PM: 3, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  15. 7/1: Guy Lombardo with Lebert Lombardo “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane” (PM: 5, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  16. 7/3: Russ Morgan with Jimmie Lewis “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down” (PM: 2)
  17. 7/17: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  18. 7/24: Hal Kemp with Bob Allen “Where or When” (PM: 1)
  19. 7/31: Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton “Gone with the Wind” (PM: 1)
  20. 7/31: Fats Waller “Smarty (You Know It All)” (PM: 2)
  21. 8/7: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” (PM: 3, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  22. 8/21: Tommy Dorsey “Satan Takes a Holiday” (PM: 3)
  23. 9/1: Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “So Rare” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  24. 9/4: Bob Crosby with Kay Weber “Whispers in the Dark” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  25. 9/11: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Big Apple” (PM: 2)
  26. 9/25: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “The Moon Got in My Eyes” (PM: 4)
  27. 10/9: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “That Old Feeling” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  28. 10/16: Teddy Wilson “You Can’t Stop Me from Dreaming” (PM: 2, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  29. 11/6: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Remember Me?” (PM: 3, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  30. 11/15: Rudy Vallee “Vieni, Vieni” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 2)
  31. 11/27: Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (PM: 7, HP: 7, GA: 4, SM: 7)
  32. 11/27: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “The Dipsy Doodle” (PM: 6)
  33. 12/11: Bing Crosby with Connee Boswell & John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)” (PM: 1)

1938:

  1. 1/1: Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Rosalie” (PM: 2, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  2. 1/1: Fred Astaire with Ray Noble “Nice Work if You Can Get It” (PM: 1)
  3. 1/15: The Andrews Sisters “Bei Mir Bist Du Schöen (Means That You’re Grand)” (PM: 5, HP: 2, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  4. 1/29: Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol “You’re a Sweetheart” (PM: 1, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  5. 2/26: Shep Fields with Bob Goday “Thanks for the Memory” (PM: 4, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  6. 2/26: Russ Morgan with Bernice Parks “I Double Dare You” (HP: 1, SM: 1)
  7. 3/19: Horace Heidt with Lysbeth Hughes & Larry Cotton “Ti-Pi-Tin” (PM: 6, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  8. 3/19: Benny Goodman “Don’t Be That Way” (PM: 5)
  9. 4/23: Duke Ellington “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart” (PM: 3, GA: 4)
  10. 5/7: Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Please Be Kind” (PM: 2, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  11. 5/14: Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Love Walked In” (HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  12. 5/21: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Cry Baby Cry” (PM: 4, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  13. 5/28: Shep Fields with Jerry Stewart “Cathedral in the Pines” (PM: 3)
  14. 6/11: Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart” (PM: 1, HP: 1, GA: 4, SM: 1)
  15. 6/18: Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Says My Heart” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  16. 6/25: Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (PM: 10, HP: 6, GA: 4, SM: 6)
  17. 7/15: Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!” (PM: 6, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  18. 9/15: Russ Morgan “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (PM: 2, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 8)
  19. 9/17: Fred Astaire with Ray Noble’s Orchestra “Change Partners” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  20. 9/24: Bing Crosby with Connee Boswell & John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (PM: 2)
  21. 10/1: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “My Reverie” (PM: 8, HP: 8, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  22. 10/1: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4. SM: 4)
  23. 10/15: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Change Partners” (PM: 2, HP: 2)
  24. 10/29: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Heart and Soul” (PM: 1)
  25. 11/5: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine” (PM: 6)
  26. 12/17: Fats Waller “Two Sleepy People” (PM: 2)
  27. 12/31: Bing Crosby with Bob Crosby’s Orchestra “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby” (PM: 2, HP: 3, GA: 4, SM: 3)
  28. 12/31: Andy Kirk with Pha Terrell “I Won’t Tell a Soul I Love You” (PM: 2)

1939:

  1. 1/7: Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest “They Say” (PM: 2)
  2. 1/14: Al Donahue with Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers” (PM: 5, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  3. 1/14: Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest “Thanks for Everything” (PM: 1)
  4. 2/4: Kay Kyser with Ginny Simms & Harry Babbitt “The Umbrella Man” (PM: 1)
  5. 2/11: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (PM: 9, HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 8)
  6. 3/18: Guy Lombardo “Penny Serenade” (PM: 1)
  7. 4/22: Glen Gray with Clyde Burke “Heaven Can Wait” (PM: 2, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  8. 5/1: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Our Love” (PM: 1, HP: 2, SM: 2)
  9. 5/13: Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “And the Angels Sing” (PM: 5, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  10. 5/20: Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt, Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, & Ish Kabibble “Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)” (PM: 2, SM: 2)
  11. 6/3: Will Glahe “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)” (PM: 4)
  12. 6/10: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Wishing Will Make It So” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  13. 7/8: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Stairway to the Stars” (PM: 4, HP: 4, GA: 4, SM: 4)
  14. 8/12: Glen Gray “Sunrise Serenade” (PM: 2)
  15. 7/1: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Moon Love” (PM: 4, HP: 4, SM: 4)
  16. 9/9: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Over the Rainbow” (PM: 7, HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 7)
  17. 9/9: Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (HP: 7, GA: 8, SM: 6)
  18. 9/9: Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Man with the Mandolin” (PM: 3)
  19. 9/30: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Blue Orchids” (PM: 1, SM: 1)
  20. 10/21: Bob Crosby with Helen Ward “Day in, Day Out” (PM: 1, HP: 1, SM: 1)
  21. 11/1: Shep Fields with Hal Derwin “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (PM: 5, HP: 5, GA: 4, SM: 5)
  22. 11/11: The Ink Spots “Address Unknown” (PM: 1)
  23. 11/25: Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (PM: 8, HP: 6, GA: 8, SM: 6)

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