Your Hit Parade was a radio, and then television, program which counted down the top music hits from April 20, 1935 to June 7, 1958. The charts didn’t list specific artists so only the highest-ranked version in Dave’s Music Database is listed.
This DMDB-exclusive list ranks the songs by most weeks at #1. In the event of ties, songs are ranked by their overall standing in Dave’s Music Database. All songs which peaked at #1 for 4 weeks or more are listed, making for a top 100+ songs of all-time according to Your Hit Parade.
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Your Hit Parade – Top 100+
12 weeks:
1. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (1951)
11 weeks:
2. Tony Bennett “Because of You” (1951)
10 weeks:
3. Bing Crosby “White Christmas” (1942)
4. Bing Crosby “I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944)
5. Dinah Shore “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
6. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
7. Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening” (1949)
8. Pat Boone “Love Letters in the Sand” (1957)
9. Bing Crosby “Now Is the Hour” (1948)
10. Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)
11. Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow” (1948)
12. Debbie Reynolds “Tammy” (1957)
13. Perry Como “If (They Made Me a King)” (1951)
14. Jimmy Dorsey “I Hear a Rhapsody” (1941)
9 weeks:
15. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
16. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1955)
17. Dick Haymes “You’ll Never Know” (1943)
18. Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (1955)
19. Gordon Jenkins “My Foolish Heart” (1950)
20. Glen Gray “My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)” (1943)
21. Pee Wee King “Slow Poke” (1951)
8 weeks:
22. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
23. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
24. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
25. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
26. Russ Morgan & the Skylarks “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1946)
27. Percy Faith “Where Is Your Heart? (Song from ‘Moulin Rouge’)” (1953)
28. Frankie Carle “Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
29. Larry Clinton & Bea Wain “My Reverie” (1938)
30. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)
31. Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone” (1944)
7 weeks:
32. Judy Garland “Over the Rainbow” (1939)
33. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
34. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
35. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
36. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (1956)
37. Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
38. Tommy Dorsey “Once in a While” (1937)
39. Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
40. Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (1940)
41. Perry Como “Wanted” (1954)
42. Freddy Martin “Symphony” (1945)
43. Pat Boone “April Love” (1957)
44. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)” (1951)
45. Bing Crosby “Dear Hearts and Gentle People” (1949)
46. Georgia Gibbs “Kiss of Fire” (1952)
47. Hugo Winterhalter with Eddie Heywood “Canadian Sunset” (1956)
48. Al Hibbler “Unchained Melody” (1955)
6 weeks:
49. Fred Astaire “The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)
50. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
51. Ella Fitzgerald “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
52. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
53. Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
54. Jimmy Dorsey “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (1941)
55. Bing Crosby “Sunday, Monday or Always” (1943)
56. Helen Forrest with Dick Haymes “Long Ago and Far Away” (1944)
57. Kitty Kallen “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
58. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
59. Sammy Kaye “Daddy” (1941)
60. Vic Damon “You’re Breaking My Heart” (1949)
61. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “There Are Such Things” (1942)
62. The Pied Pipers “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (1945)
63. Red Foley “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” (1950)
64. Shep Fields with Charles Chester “Did I Remember?” (1936)
65. Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (1939)
66. Guy & Lebert Lombardo “It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane” (1937)
67. Guy Lombardo “Boo Hoo” (1937)
68. Horace Heidt with Lysbeth Hughes & Larry Cotton “Ti-Pi-Tin” (1938)
69. Kay Kyser & Michael Douglas “Ole Buttermilk Sky” (1946)
70. Al Jolson “The Anniversary Song” (1947)
71. Kay Kyser “There’ll Be Bluebirds Over the Cliffs of Dover” (1941)
72. Tony Bennett “Stranger in Paradise” (1953)
73. Billy Vaughn “Melody of Love” (1954)
5 weeks:
74. Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman’s Orchestra “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
75. Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star” (1940)
76. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (1956)
77. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
78. Glenn Miller “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (1942)
79. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
80. Judy Garland “The Trolley Song” (1944)
81. Les Paul & Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
82. Al Donahue with Paula Kelly “Jeepers Creepers” (1938)
83. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle, Jangle, Jingle” (1942)
84. Shep Fields with Hal Derwin “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (1939)
85. Bill Snyder “Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered” (1950)
86. Tommy Dorsey with Cliff Weston “Alone” (1936)
87. Guy & Carmen Lombardo “September in the Rain” (1937)
88. Sonny James “Young Love” (1956)
89. Bing Crosby with the Les Paul Trio “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (1945)
90. Alvino Rey with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (1942)
91. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Is It True What They Say About Dixie” (1936)
92. Perry Como & the Ramblers “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (1952)
93. Les Baxter “The Poor People of Paris” (1956)
94. Glenn Miller “You and I” (1941)
95. Joni James “Why Don’t You Believe Me” (1952)
96. Frank Chacksfield “Ebb Tide” (1953)
97. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Careless” (1940)
98. Perry Como “Round and Round” (1957)
4 weeks:
99. Les Brown’s Orchestra with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
100. Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
101. Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (1942)
102. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
103. Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943)
104. Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (1945)
105. Benny Goodman with Martha Tilton “And the Angels Sing” (1939)
106. Shep Fields with Bob Goday “That Old Feeling” (1937)
107. Vaughn Monroe “Ballerina” (1947)
108. Doris Day “Whatever Will Be, Will Be” (1956)
109. Johnny Mercer with Jo Stafford “Candy” (1945)
110. Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, and Don Juans “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” (1941)
111. Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (1935)
112. Benny Goodman with Helen Ward “Goody Goody” (1936)
113. Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright “Music Maestro Please!” (1938)
114. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” (1946)
115. Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (1955)
116. Sammy Kaye with Tommy Ryan “Love Walked In” (1938)
117. Bing Crosby “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” (1938)
118. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Stairway to the Stars” (1939)
119. Ray Noble with Buddy Clark “Linda’ (1947)
120. Red Norvo with Mildred Bailey “Says My Heart” (1938)
121. Benny Goodman with Ella Fitzgerald “Goodnight My Love” (1937)
122. Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Till I Waltz Again with You” (1952)
123. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Wishing Will Make It So” (1939)
124. Bob Crosby with Kay Weber “Whispers in the Dark” (1937)
125. The Four Aces with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Three Coins in the Fountain” (1954)
126. Perry Como “Catch a Falling Star” (1957)
127. Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Moon Love” (1939)
128. Frank Sinatra “They Say It’s Wonderful” (1946)
129. The Ames Brothers with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “You You You” (1953)
130. Dorsey Brothers with Bob Eberly “Chasing Shadows” (1935)
131. Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt “He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings” (1942)
132. Tony Martin “Tonight We Love (Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor)” (1941)
133. Guy Lombardo with Carmen Lombardo “Lost” (1936)
134. Vaughn Monroe “There I Go” (1940)
135. Vaughn Monroe “My Devotion” (1942)
136. Nelson Riddle “Lisbon Antigua” (1955)
Resources and Related Links:
- Dave’s Music Database: “Other Chart-Based Lists”
- Bruce C. Elrod (editor) (1994). Your Hit Parade & American Top 10 Hits: A Week-by-Week Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Music, 1935-1994. Popular Culture, Ink.: Ann Arbor, MI.
Includes week-by-week listing of Your Hit Parade from 4/20/1935 to 6/7/1958.
- Way Back Machine: “Hit Parade Rankings
Database of songs to peak in top 3 from 1935-55. Includes peak position, weeks at #1, and weeks total on the chart.
First posted 7/21/2014; last updated 10/3/2021. | 
