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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Billboard: Top 200 Songs (1890-1958)

Billboard:

Top 200 Songs, 1890-1958

In 2018, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Hot 100, Billboard magazine published a list of the top 600 songs in the history of the chart (see here). However, that ignored the 60+ years of charts the magazine had done prior to that. This rectifies that situation by offering a list of the top songs from the pre-Hot 100 era.

See other chart-based lists here and specific Billboard lists here.

1. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” / “Hound Dog” (1956)
2. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
3. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
4. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (1956)
5. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
6. Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (1942)
7. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
8. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
9. Arthur Collins with Byron Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
10. Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1904)

11. Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1920)
12. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
13. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
14. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
15. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
16. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
17. Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
18. Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
19. Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
20. George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1897)

21. Byron Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907)
22. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
23. Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943)
24. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (1949)
25. Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Whispering” (1920)
26. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
27. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
28. Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (1947)
29. George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (1893)
30. Les Paul with Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)

31. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
32. Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)
33. Byron Harlan “My Gal Sal” (1907)
34. Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio” (1919)
35. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
36. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
37. Percy Faith with Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from “Moulin Rouge”)” (1953)
38. American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones” (1910)
39. Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
40. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (1941)

41. Tony Bennett “Because of You” (1951)
42. Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (1905)
43. Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)” (1918)
44. The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “Rum and Coca-Cola” (1945)
45. Guy Lombardo “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
46. Leo Reisman & His Orchestra with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
47. Al Jolson “April Showers” (1922)
48. Leo Reisman’s Orchestra with Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
49. Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
50. Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (1909)

51. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
52. Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
53. Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson (as Miss Walton) “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (1909)
54. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (1926)
55. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
56. Bing Crosby with Lani McIntire & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani” (1937)
57. Nick Lucas “Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips with Me” (1929)
58. Vaughn Monroe’s Orchestra “Ballerina” (1947)
59. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (1957)
60. George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (1933)

61. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
62. Byron Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (1906)
63. Ted Lewis & His Band “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (1932)
64. Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (1930)
65. Len Spencer “Arkansaw Traveler” (1902)
66. Elvis Presley “Jailhouse Rock” (1957)
67. Glenn Miller Orchestra with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail” (1942)
68. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
69. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
70. Dan Quinn “The Band Played On” (1895)

71. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)
72. Dan Quinn “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)
73. The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely” (1955)
74. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (1956)
75. George W. Johnson “The Laughing Song” (1891)
76. Perez “Prez” Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” (1955)
77. Pat Boone “Love Letters in the Sand” (1957)
78. Danny & The Juniors “At the Hop” (1957)
79. Elvis Presley “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear” (1957)
80. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1955)

81. Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (1903)
82. Haydn Quartet “Bedelia” (1904)
83. Tab Hunter “Young Love” (1956)
84. Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm” (1908)
85. Eileen Barton “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” (1950)
86. George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home” (1898)
87. John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1915)
88. Dinah Shore “The Gypsy” (1946)
89. J.W. Myer “In the Good Old Summertime” (1902)
90. The Four Aces “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (1955)

91. George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (1900)
92. Gogi Grant “The Wayward Wind” (1956)
93. Blue Baron & His Orchestra “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)
94. Gene Austin “Ramona” (1928)
95. Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (1955)
96. John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (1897)
97. The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
98. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
99. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
100. Harry MacDonough “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (1911)

101. Harry MacDonough & Grace Spencer “Tell Me Pretty Maiden” (1901)
102. Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (1900)
103. Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (1906)
104. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
105. Vaughn Monroe “There! I’ve Said It Again” (1945)
106. Charles Harrison “Peg O’ My Heart” (1913)
107. Roger Williams “Autumn Leaves” (1955)
108. Leo Reisman & Harold Arlen “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
109. Lucy Isabelle Marsh “The Glow-Worm” (1908)
110. Bing Crosby with John Scottt Trotter’s Orchestra “Swinging on a Star” (1944)

111. Kitty Kallen “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
112. Sam Cooke “You Send Me” (1957)
113. Vera Lynn with Ronald Shaw’s Orchestra “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” (1952)
114. American Quartet “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (1914)
115. The Platters “My Prayer (Avant de Mourir)” (1956)
116. John Philip Sousa with Harry MacDonough & S.H. Dudley “In the Good Old Summertime” (1903)
117. Buddy Clark “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
118. Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (1943)
119. Perry Como “Wanted” (1954)
120. Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)

121. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941)
122. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910)
123. Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904)
124. Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (1909)
125. Frank Sinatra “Oh, What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
126. Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1953)
127. Billy Murray “Harrigan” (1907)
128. Russ Morgan & Skylarks “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)
129. Kay Starr & the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra “Rock and Roll Waltz” (1955)
130. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948)

131. Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
132. Arthur Collins “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
133. Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction” (1940)
134. Peggy Lee “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (1948)
135. Dan Quinn “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1896)
136. The Andrews Sisters “Shoo-Shoo Baby” (1943)
137. Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires “That Lucky Old Sun” (1949)
138. Paul Anka “Diana” (1957)
139. Dan Quinn “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1893)
140. Wayne King “Goodnight Sweetheart” (1931)

141. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)” (1951)
142. Peerless Quartet “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1911)
143. The Crew-Cuts “Sh-Boom” (1954)
144. Ethel Waters “Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)
145. The Three Suns “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
146. Len Spencer “Hello Ma Baby” (1899)
147. Les Baxter “The Poor People of Paris” (1956)
148. Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (1914)
149. Paul Whiteman “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (1922)
150. Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (1939)

151. Bing Crosby “Only Forever” (1940)
152. Jere Mahoney “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (1900)
153. Jere Mahoney “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (1900)
154. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying” (1946)
155. The Platters “The Great Pretender” (1955)
156. Billy Jones “Yes! We Have No Bananas” (1923)
157. Debbie Reynolds “Tammy” (1957)
158. The Ames Brothers “You, You, You” (1953)
159. Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (1909)
160. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean “Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean” (1922)

161. Perry Como “If (They Made Me King)” (1951)
162. Pat Boone “April Love” (1957)
163. Tony Bennett “Rags to Riches” (1953)
164. Nat “King” Cole “Nature Boy” (1948)
165. Freddy Martin & Jack Fina “Piano Concerto in B Flat” (1941)
166. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
167. Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners “You’ll Never Know” (1943)
168. Nicholas Orlando’s Orchestra “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
169. Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen “Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)” (1944)
170. Sonny James “Young Love” (1956)

171. Len Spencer “The Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)” (1892)
172. John York Atlee “Listen to the Mocking Bird (aka “The Mocking Bird”)” (1891)
173. Charles Hart & Lewis James “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
174. Enrico Caruso “Over There” (1918)
175. The Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (1917)
176. Red Foley “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” (1950)
177. Patti Page “I Went to Your Wedding” (1952)
178. The Mills Brothers “The Glow-Worm” (1952)
179. Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (1919)
180. Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (1915)

181. Steve Porter “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1898)
182. J.W. Myers “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)
184. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette” (1947)
185. Mina Hickman “Come Down Ma Evening Star” (1903)
186. Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wrightt “The Music Goes ‘Round and ‘Round” (1935)
187. Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “Sunday, Monday or Always” (1943)
188. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
189. Rosemary Clooney “Hey There” (1954)
190. Len Spencer “A Hot Time in the Old Town” (1897)

191. American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (1912)
192. Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (1902)
193. Al Jolson “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” (1918)
194. Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (1905)
195. Guy Lombardo & Carmen Lombardo “Red Sails in the Sunset” (1935)
196. Glenn Miller & Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (1940)
197. Jimmie Rodgers “Honeycomb” (1957)
198. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)
199. Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)
200. Byron Harlan & Frank Stanley “Blue Bell” (1904)

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Saturday, April 2, 2022

Biggest #1 Songs in UK Chart History

UK Official Charts

Biggest #1 Songs

This list ranks the biggest songs in the history of the UK singles charts from 1947 to present based on most weeks at #1. All songs with six or more weeks atop the chart have been included on this list. Ties are broken by the songs’ rankings in the overall Dave’s Music Database.

Check other lists based on charts, sales, and airplay here.

    26 weeks:

  1. Bing Crosby “Galway Bay” (1949)

    21 weeks:

  2. The Ink Spots “Bless You for Being an Angel” (1947)

    18 weeks:

  3. Frankie Laine “I Believe” (1953)

    16 weeks:

  4. Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You“ (1991)

    15 weeks:

  5. Drake with Wizkid & Kyla “One Dance”
  6. Wet Wet Wet “Love Is All Around” (1994)

    14 weeks:

  7. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” (1975)
  8. Ed Sheeran “Shape of You”

    12 weeks:

  9. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (1951)
  10. Jimmy Young “Too Young” (1951)

    11 weeks:

  11. Luis Fonsi with Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber “Despacito”
  12. Tones and I “Dance Monkey” (2019)
  13. Ed Sheeran “Bad Habits” (2021)
  14. Billy Eckstine “My Foolish Heart” (1950)
  15. Slim Whitman “Rose Marie” (1955)
  16. Teresa Brewer “Longing for You” (1951)

    10 weeks:

  17. Whitney Houston “I Will Always Love You” (1992)
  18. Rihanna with Jay-Z “Umbrella” (2007)
  19. Vera Lynn “Auf Wiedersheh’n Sweetheart” (1952)
  20. Les Paul & Mary Ford “Mockin’ Bird Hill” (1951)
  21. Nat “King” Cole “Unforgettable” (1951)
  22. David Whitfield with Mantovani & His Orchestra “Cara Mia” (1954)

    9 weeks:

  23. Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” (2006)
  24. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
  25. Elvis Presley “It’s Now or Never” (1960)
  26. Olivia Newton-John with John Travolta “You’re the One That I Want” (1978)
  27. Drake “God’s Plan” (2018)
  28. Paul Anka “Diana” (1957)
  29. Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
  30. Paul McCartney & Wings “Mull of Kintyre” / “Girls’ School” (1977)

  31. Frankie Goes to Hollywood “Two Tribes” (1984)
  32. Al Martino “Here in My Heart” (1952)
  33. Clean Bandit with Sean Paul & Anne-Marie “Rockabye” (2016)
  34. Anita O’Day “Tennessee Waltz” (1951)
  35. Eddie Calvert “O Mein Papa (Oh My Papa)” (1953)
  36. Vera Lynn “The Homing Waltz” (1952)
  37. Alma Cogan “The Homing Waltz” (1952)

    8 weeks:

  38. The Archies “Sugar, Sugar” (1969)
  39. The Weeknd “Blinding Lights” (2019)
  40. Ed Sheeran with Justin Bieber “I Don’t Care” (2019)

  41. Adele “Easy on Me” (2021)
  42. Calvin Harris with Dua Lipa “One Kiss” (2018)
  43. Doris Day “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (1950)
  44. Shakespear’s Sister “Stay” (1992)
  45. Mel Tormé “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (1950)
  46. Perry Como “Magic Moments” (1958)
  47. Frankie Laine “Answer Me, Lord Above” (1953)
  48. The Shadows “Wonderful Land” (1962)

    7 weeks:

  49. Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk!” (2014)
  50. Elvis Presley “ All Shook Up” (1957)

  51. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)
  52. Spice Girls “Wannabe” (1996)
  53. Cher “Believe” (1998)
  54. Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” (2007)
  55. Meat Loaf “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” (1993)
  56. The Everly Brothers “Cathy’s Clown” / “Claudette” (1960)
  57. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
  58. Mungo Jerry “In the Summertime” (1970)
  59. Lewis Capaldi “Someone You Loved” (2018)
  60. The Beatles “Hello Goodbye” (1967)

  61. Frank Ifield “I Remember You” (1962)
  62. Oliva Newton-John with John Travolta “Summer Nights” (1978)
  63. Johnnie Ray “Just Walkin’ in the Rain” (1956)
  64. Tom Jones “Green, Green Grass of Home” (1966)
  65. Harry Belafonte “Mary’s Boy Child” (1956)
  66. Tab Hunter “Young Love” (1956)
  67. The Beatles “From Me to You” (1963)
  68. Celine Dion “Think Twice” (1994)
  69. Tony Christie with Peter Kay “Is This the Way to Amarillo?” (2005)
  70. Robson & Jerome “Unchained Melody/The White Cliffs of Dover” (1995)

  71. Encanto Cast “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” (2021)
  72. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Give Me Your Word” (1955)
  73. Eve Young “Silver Dollar (Roll Roll Roll)” (1950)

    6 weeks:

  74. Abba “Dancing Queen (1976)
  75. Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
  76. Gene Autry “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1949)
  77. The Beatles “She Loves You (1963)
  78. George Harrison “My Sweet Lord (1970)
  79. Rihanna with Calvin Harris “We Found Love” (2011)
  80. Ed Sheeran with Beyoncé “Perfect” (2017)

  81. Puff Daddy with Faith Evans & 112 “I’ll Be Missing You” (1997)
  82. The Beatles with Billy Preston “Get Back” (1969)
  83. Stevie Wonder “I Just Called to Say I Love You (1984)
  84. Justin Bieber “Love Yourself” (2015)
  85. Elton John with Kiki Dee “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (1976)
  86. Ariana Grande “Thank U, Next” (2018)
  87. Culture Club “Karma Chameleon” (1983)
  88. Doris Day “Whatever Will Be Will Be (Que Sera Que Sera)” (1956)
  89. Shawn Mendes with Camila Cabello “Señorita” (2019)
  90. Lionel Richie “Hello” (1983)

  91. Black Eyed Peas with Justin Timberlake “Where Is the Love?” (2003)
  92. Connie Francis “Who’s Sorry Now?” (1958)
  93. Engelbert Humperdinck “Release Me” (1967)
  94. Mary Hopkin “Those Were the Days” (1968)
  95. Teresa Brewer with Dixieland All Stars “Music! Music! Music!” (1950)
  96. DaBaby with Roddy Ricch “Rockstar” (2020)
  97. Snap! “Rhythm Is a Dancer” (1992)
  98. Ariana Grande “Positions” (2020)
  99. Freda Payne “Band of Gold” (1970)
  100. Brotherhood of Man “Save Your Kisses for Me” (1976)

  101. Elvis Presley “The Wonder of You” (1970)
  102. Michael Jackson “Earth Song” (1995)
  103. Bing Crosby “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1950)
  104. Cliff Richard & the Drifters “Living Doll” (1959)
  105. Elvis Presley “Wooden Heart” (1961)
  106. Art Garfunkel “Bright Eyes” (1979)
  107. T-Rex “Hot Love” (1971)
  108. Dave Edmunds “I Hear You Knocking” (1970)
  109. Black Box “Ride on Time” (1989)
  110. Cliff Richard & the Shadows “The Young Ones” (1962)

  111. Emile Ford & the Checkmates “What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?” (1969)
  112. Rolf Harris “Two Little Boys” (1969)
  113. Bay City Rollers “Bye Bye Baby” (1975)
  114. Connie Francis “Stupid Cupid” / “Carolina Moon” (1958)
  115. Run-D.M.C. with Jason Nevins “It’s Like That” (1998)
  116. Jo Stafford “No Other Love” (1950)
  117. Joel Corry with MNEK “Head & Heart” (2020)
  118. East 17 “Stay Another Day” (1994)
  119. Ronnie Hilton “No Other Love” (1956)
  120. Calvin Harris with Sam Smith “Promises” (2018)
  121. Guy Mitchell “Look at That Girl” (1953)

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Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Billboard: Jukebox Hits, 1940-1957

Billboard’s Jukebox Hits:

1940-1957

Billboard magazine launched its jukebox hits chart on January 6, 1940. It only ran until July 20, 1940, but then resumed on November 6, 1943 and ran until June 17, 1957. It tracked which songs were played most in jukeboxes across the country. The chart ran until 1957. These were the biggest #1 songs on that chart. All songs which spent three weeks or more at #1 are listed here. Ties are broken by songs’ overall Dave’s Music Database points.

See other chart-based lists here and specific Billboard lists here.

    13 weeks:

  1. Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
  2. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
  3. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)
  4. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
  5. Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (1947)
    12 weeks:

  6. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
    11 weeks:

  7. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
  8. Guy Lombardo “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
    10 weeks:

  9. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (1949)
  10. The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “Rum and Coca-Cola” (1945)
  11. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (1956)
  12. Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Because of You” (1951)
  13. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
  14. Patti Page “I Went to Your Wedding” (1952)
    9 weeks:

  15. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956) /
  16. Elvis Presley “Hound Dog” (1956)
  17. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (1957)
  18. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
  19. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
  20. Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction” (1940)
  21. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
  22. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
  23. Les Paul with Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
  24. Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen’s Orchestra “Shoo-Shoo Baby” (1943)
    8 weeks:

  25. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
  26. Bing Crosby with John Scottt Trotter’s Orchestra “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
  27. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
  28. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
  29. Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (1945)
  30. Perez “Prez” Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” (1955)
  31. Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “Wanted” (1954)
  32. Red Foley “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” (1950)
  33. The Crew-Cuts “Sh-Boom” (1954)
  34. Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying” (1946)
  35. Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Rags to Riches” (1953)
  36. Rosemary Clooney “Come on-a My House” (1951)
    7 weeks:

  37. Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
  38. Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
  39. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
  40. Vaughn Monroe’s Orchestra “Ballerina” (1947)
  41. The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely” (1954)
  42. Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1953)
  43. Kitty Kallen with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
  44. Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me” (1948)
  45. Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Till I Waltz Again with You” (1952)
  46. Les Brown with Doris Day “My Dreams Are Getting Bigger All the Time” (1945)
  47. Sammy Kaye with Billy Williams “The Old Lamplighter” (1946)
  48. Eddie Fisher with Sally Sweetland & Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “I'm Walking Behind You” (1953)
  49. Jo Stafford “Make Love to Me!” (1954)
  50. Ken Griffin “You Can’t Be True, Dear” (1948)
    6 weeks:

  51. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948)
  52. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1955)
  53. Percy Faith with Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from “Moulin Rouge”)” (1953)
  54. Harry James with Dick Haymes “I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You” (1941)
  55. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)
  56. Frankie Laine & the Muleskinners “Mule Train” (1949)
  57. Frankie Masters “Scatter-Brain” (1939)
  58. Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “O Mein Papa (Oh My Papa)” (1953)
  59. Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood “Woody Woodpecker” (1948)
  60. Al Trace with Bob Vincent “You Call Everybody Darlin’” (1948)

  61. Kay Starr with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “Rock and Roll Waltz” (1955)
  62. Georgia Gibbs “Kiss of Fire” (1952)
  63. The Ames Brothers with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “You You You” (1953)
  64. Russ Morgan & the Skylarks “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)
  65. Bing Crosby with the Andrews Sisters & Vic Shoen’s Orchestra “There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin When the Yanks Go Marching In” (1944)
    5 weeks:

  66. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
  67. Vaughn Monroe “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (1945)
  68. Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening” (1949)
  69. Art Mooney “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” (1948)
  70. Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires “That Lucky Old Sun” (1949)

  71. Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour’s Orchestra “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (1948)
  72. Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (1940)
  73. Rosemary Clooney with Buddy Cole “Hey There” (1954)
  74. THe Merry Macs “Mairzy Doats” (1944)
  75. Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra “If (They Made Me a King)” (1951)
  76. Tab Hunter “Young Love” (1956)
  77. Bing Crosby with Jon Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “San Fernando Valley” (1944)
    4 weeks:

  78. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
  79. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (1951)
  80. Tex Williams “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” (1947)

  81. Vera Lynn with Ronald Shaw’s Orchestra “Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart” (1952)
  82. Gogi Grant “The Wayward Wind” (1956)
  83. Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (1955)
  84. Perry Como & the Ramblers with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (1952)
  85. Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Sierra Sue” (1940)
  86. Joan Weber “Let Me Go, Lover!” (1954)
  87. Pat Boone “I Almost Lost My Mind” (1956)
  88. Sammy Kaye with Troy Alamo “Harbor Lights” (1950)
    3 weeks:

  89. Blue Barron & His Orchestra “Crusing Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)
  90. The Four Aces “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (1955)
  91. Vic Damone “You’re Breaking My Heart” (1949)
  92. Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (1955)
  93. Bing Crosby “Now Is the Hour (Māori Farewell Song)” (1948)
  94. The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” (1949)
  95. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” (1946)
  96. Margaret Whiting with Jimmy Wakely “Slipping Around” (1949)
  97. Russ Morgan & the Skylarks “Forever and Ever” (1949)
  98. Eileen Barton “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” (1950)
  99. Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys “Slow Poke” (1951)
  100. Joni James with Lew Douglas’ Orchestra “Why Don’t You Believe Me” (1952)

  101. Rosemary Clooney with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Half As Much” (1952)
  102. The Mills Brothers with Hal McIntyre “The Glow-Worm” (1952)
  103. The Three Suns “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
  104. Freddy Martin with Stuart Wade “Managua, Nicaragua” (1947)
  105. Jim Lowe “The Green Door” (1956)
  106. Rosemary Clooney “This Ole House” (1954)
  107. Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Cold Cold Heart” (1951)
  108. The Fontane Sisters with Billy Vaughn’s Orchestra “Hearts of Stone” (1954)
  109. Georgia Gibbs “Dance with Me Henry (Wallflower)” (1955)
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Saturday, May 25, 1996

50 years ago: The Ink Spots hit #1 with “The Gypsy”

The Gypsy

The Ink Spots

Writer(s): Billy Reid (see lyrics here)

First Charted: May 4, 1946

Peak: 113 US, 18 HP, 13 GA, 13 RB (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, -- world (includes US + UK)

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 0.38 video, -- streaming

Awards:

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About the Song:

Billy Reid was a famous bandleader in London in the 1930s who had the distinction of being the first British songwriter to top the pop charts in the United States. When Welsh singer Dorothy Squires joined his group, he often wrote songs specifically with her in mind – one of which was “The Gypsy.” The song, published in 1945, unfurls a story of someone seeking out the advice of a gypsy fortune teller. The narrator wants to believe his partner is faithful, which the gypsy confirms, although both know it isn’t true. WK

After Reid and his orchestra, fronted by Squires, introduced the song in the UK, WK it became a hit in the United States. Dinah Shore and the Ink Spots both topped the charts with the song, but the Ink Spots’ version was the monster hit, spending 13 weeks at #1 and becoming the biggest hit of 1946. WHC It “seemed tailor-made for the Ink Spots: a smooth melody that could be crooned in Bill Kenny’s high tenor, and a sugary sweet lyric.” TY2

This African-American pop vocal group found success with both white and black audiences. Their early version of doo-wop was fundamental in shaping rock and roll as well as R&B, leading to their induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They racked up more than forty hits from the 1930s to the 1950s. Twenty of those songs were top ten hits and six of those went all the way to the top of the American pop charts.

In addition to the versions by Shore and the Ink Spots, “The Gypsy” charted four more times that year – Sammy Kaye (#3), Hildegarde with Guy Lombardo (#7), Hal McIntyre (#8), and Jan Garber (#14). The song has also been recorded by Louis Armstrong, Quincy Jones, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, and Frank Sinatra. WK It appeared in Revolutionary Road, a 2008 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. WK

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Wednesday, December 31, 1986

Pop Memories: The Top 100 Songs, 1890-1954

Pop Memories:

Top 100 Songs, 1890-1954

Billboard magazine has long been the music chart industry leader with its flagship Hot 100 chart, which launched in 1958. Prior to that, Billboard did other charts, but the farther back one dips into recorded history, the more difficult it is to find music charts from Billboard or any other source. Pop Memories 1890-1954 taps multiple sources from the pre-rock era to create music charts.

This particular webpage takes the list from that book of the top 100 songs from 1890 to 1954, as determined first by the most weeks spent at #1, tne by total weeks on the chart.

Check other lists based on charts, sales, and airplay here.

17 weeks:

1. Francis Craig with Bob Lamm “Near You” (1947)

14 weeks:

2. Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “White Christmas” (1942)

13 weeks:

3. Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (1940)
4. Gene Austin “My Blue Heaven” (1927)
5. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
6. Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (1943)
7. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
8. Ben Selvin “Dardanella” (1920)
9. The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (1946)
10. Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (1947)

12 weeks:

11. The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (1942)
12. Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song” (1925)
13. Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (1939)
14. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
15. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (1949)
16. Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “I’ll Never Smile Again” (1940)
17. Al Jolson “Sonny Boy” (1928)

11 weeks:

18. Les Paul with Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
19. Anton Karas “The Third Man Theme” (1950)
20. Guy Lombardo “The Third Man Theme” (1950)

21. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
22. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
23. Paul Whiteman’s Orchestra “Whispering” (1920)
24. Leo Reisman & His Orchestra with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers “Cheek to Cheek” (1935)
25. American Quartet with Billy Murray “Casey Jones” (1910)
26. Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (1909)
27. Al Jolson “April Showers” (1922)
28. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra with Franklyn Baur “Valencia (A Song of Spain)” (1926)
29. Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (1907)
30. Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)” (1918)

31. Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (1905)
32. Len Spencer “The Arkansaw Traveler” (1902)

10 weeks:

33. Tony Bennett “Because of You” (1951)
34. Bing Crosby with Lani McIntire & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani” (1937)
35. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
36. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
37. Percy Faith with Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from “Moulin Rouge”)” (1953)
38. Ted Lewis & His Band “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town” (1932)
39. Vaughn Monroe’s Orchestra “Ballerina” (1947)
40. Patti Page “I Went to Your Wedding” (1952)

41. Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees “Stein Song (University of Maine)” (1930)
42. The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “Rum and Coca-Cola” (1945)
43. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
44. Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb & His Orchestra “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” (1938)
45. Nick Lucas “Tip-Toe Thru the Tulips with Me” (1929)
46. Glenn Miller Orchestra with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail” (1942)
47. Leo Reisman’s Orchestra with Fred Astaire “Night and Day” (1932)
48. Arthur Collins with Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
49. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (1941)
50. Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1904)

51. Eileen Barton “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” (1950)
52. Bing Crosby with George Stoll’s Orchestra “Pennies from Heaven” (1936)
53. Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)
54. George J. Gaskin “My Old New Hampshire Home” (1898)
55. Bryon G. Harlan “My Gal Sal” (1907)
56. George J. Gaskin “On the Banks of the Wabash” (1897)
57. George J. Gaskin “After the Ball” (1893)
58. George W. Johnson “The Laughing Song” (1891)
59. Dan Quinn “The Band Played On” (1895)

9 weeks:

60. Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
61. Bing Crosby with John Scottt Trotter’s Orchestra “Swinging on a Star” (1944)
62. Kitty Kallen “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
63. Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941)
64. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
65. George Olsen with Joe Morrison “The Last Round-Up” (1933)
66. The Andrews Sisters “Shoo-Shoo Baby” (1943)
67. Peggy Lee “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (1948)
68. Vera Lynn with Ronald Shaw’s Orchestra “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” (1952)
69. The Crew-Cuts “Sh-Boom” (1954)
70. Bing Crosby “Only Forever” (1940)

71. Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction” (1940)
72. American Quartet “Over There” (1917)
73. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying” (1946)
74. Al Jolson “Swanee” (1920)
75. Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (1906)
76. Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (1910)
77. Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (1919)
78. Henry Burr “Beautiful Ohio” (1919)
79. Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson (as Miss Walton) “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (1909)
80. Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (1904)

81. Billy Murray “Harrigan” (1907)
82. Bert Williams “Nobody” (1906)
83. Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “Deep Purple” (1939)
84. Dan Quinn “Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)” (1893)
85. Dan Quinn “The Sidewalks of New York” (1895)

8 weeks:

86. Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (1943)
87. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948)
88. The Ames Brothers “You, You, You” (1953)
89. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
90. The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)

91. Tony Bennett “Rags to Riches” (1953)
92. Freddy Martin & Jack Fina “Piano Concerto in B Flat” (1941)
93. Perry Como “If (They Made Me King)” (1951)
94. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)
95. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)” (1951)
96. Perry Como “Wanted” (1954)
97. Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires “That Lucky Old Sun” (1949)
98. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
99. Dinah Shore “The Gypsy” (1946)
100. Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1953)

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