Showing posts with label You Belong to Me. Show all posts
Showing posts with label You Belong to Me. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2021

Billboard: Disc Jockey Hits, 1944-1958

Billboard’s Disc Jockey Hits:

1944-1958

Billboard magazine started its disc jockey hits chart in 1944. It tracked which songs were played the most on radio stations across the country. The chart ran until 1958 when it was merged with data from the best sellers and jukebox hits into the Billboard Hot 100. These, however, were the biggest #1 songs on the Disc Jockey Hits 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.

    17 weeks:

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

    12 weeks:

  2. Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (1949)
  3. Jo Stafford “You Belong to Me” (1952)
    11 weeks:

  4. Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (1947)
    10 weeks:

  5. Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads “Cry” (1951)
  6. The McGuire Sisters “Sincerely” (1954)
  7. Eileen Barton “If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake” (1950)
    9 weeks:

  8. Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon” (1951)
  9. Perry Como “Till the End of Time” (1945)
  10. Guy Mitchell “Singing the Blues” (1956)
  11. Percy Faith with Felicia Sanders “Where Is Your Heart (Song from “Moulin Rouge”)” (1953)
  12. Kay Starr “Wheel of Fortune” (1952)
  13. The Crew-Cuts “Sh-Boom” (1954)
  14. Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying” (1946)
    8 weeks:

  15. Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel” (1956)
  16. Patti Page “Tennessee Waltz” (1950)
  17. The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “Goodnight Irene” (1950)
  18. Nat “King” Cole “Mona Lisa” (1950)
  19. Nat “King” Cole with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra “Nature Boy” (1948)
  20. Vaughn Monroe’s Orchestra “Ballerina” (1947)

  21. Tonny Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Because of You” (1951)
  22. Kitty Kallen with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Little Things Mean a Lot” (1954)
  23. Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (1946)
  24. Gogi Grant “Thw Wayward Wind” (1956)
  25. Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra “If (They Made Me a King)” (1951)
  26. Eddy Howard “Sin (It’s No Sin)” (1951)
  27. The Ames Brothers with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “You You You” (1953)
  28. Rosemary Clooney “Come on-a My House” (1951)
  29. Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes “Oh What It Seemed to Be” (1946)
  30. Dinah Shore “The Gypsy” (1946)
    7 weeks:

  31. Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (1945)
  32. Elvis Presley “All Shook Up” (1957)
  33. Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters “Don’t Fence Me In” (1944)
  34. Pat Boone “Love Letters in the Sand” (1957)
  35. The Chordettes “Mr. Sandman” (1954)
  36. Russ Morgan & the Skylarks “Cruising Down the River on a Sunday Afternoon” (1949)

  37. Frankie Laine with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires “That Lucky Old Sun” (1949)
  38. Patti Page “The Doggie in the Window” (1953)
  39. Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour’s Orchestra “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (1948)
  40. Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “Wanted” (1954)
  41. Eddie Fisher with Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “O Mein Papa (Oh My Papa)” (1953)
  42. Tony Bennett with Percy Faith’s Orchestra “Rags to Riches” (1953)
  43. Georgia Gibbs “Kiss of Fire” (1952)
    6 weeks:

  44. Tennessee Ernie Ford “Sixteen Tons” (1955)
  45. Mitch Miller “The Yellow Rose of Texas” (1955)
  46. Jo Mercer with the Pied Pipers “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (1945)
  47. Vaughn Monroe “There! I’ve Said It Again” (1945)
  48. Nat “King” Cole “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (1946)
  49. The Four Aces “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (1955)
  50. Vera Lynn with Ronald Shaw’s Orchestra “Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart” (1952)

  51. Frankie Laine & the Muleskinners “Mule Train” (1949)
  52. Evelyn Knight & the Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me” (1948)
  53. Dean Martin “Memories Are Made of This” (1955)
  54. Teresa Brewer with Jack Pleis’ Orchestra “Till I Waltz Again with You” (1952)
  55. Pat Boone “April Love” (1957)
  56. Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood “Woody Woodpecker” (1948)
  57. Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro’s Orchestra “I Can’t Begin to Tell You” (1945)
  58. Joni James “Why Don’t You Believe Me” (1952)
  59. Tab Hunter “Young Love” (1956)
  60. Buddy Clark with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Peg O’ My Heart” (1947)
    5 weeks:

  61. Bill Haley & the Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock” (1954)
  62. The Everly Brothers “All I Have to Do Is Dream” (1958)
  63. Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” (1956)
  64. Dinah Shore & Her Harper Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (1948)
  65. Vaughn Monroe “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (1945)
  66. Perez “Prez” Prado “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” (1955)
  67. The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkin’s Orchestra “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” (1949)
  68. Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow” (1948)
  69. Debbie Reynolds “Tammy” (1957)
  70. Les Baxter “The Poor People of Paris” (1956)
  71. Doris Day with Buddy Clark and George Siravo’s Orchestra “Love Somebody” (1948)
  72. Patti Page with Harry Geller’s Orchestra “All My Love (Bolero)” (1950)
  73. Phil Harris with Walter Scharf’s Orchestra “The Thing” (1950)
    4 weeks:

  74. Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (1948)
  75. THe Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” (1957)
  76. Doris Day “Secret Love” (1954)
  77. Art Mooney “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” (1948)
  78. Nat “King” Cole “Too Young” (1951)
  79. Vic Damone “You’re Breaking My Heart” (1949)
  80. Rosemary Clooney with Buddy Cole “Hey There” (1954)

  81. Frank Sinatra “Five Minutes More” (1946)
  82. Sheb Wooley “The Purple People Eater” (1958)
  83. Joan Weber “Let Me Go, Lover!” (1954)
  84. Laurie London “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” (1957)
  85. Perry Como with Henri Rene’s Orchestra “No Other Love” (1953)
  86. Jimmie Rodgers “Honeycomb” (1957)
  87. The McGuire Sisters “Sugartime” (1957)
    3 weeks:

  88. Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956)
  89. Danny & The Juniors “At the Hop” (1957)
  90. Les Paul with Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You)” (1953)
  91. Elvis Presley “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear” (1957)

  92. The Platters “My Prayer (Avant de Mourir)” (1956)
  93. Bill Hayes “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” (1955)
  94. Perry Como & the Ramblers with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (1952)
  95. Spike Jones & His City Slickers with George Rock “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” (1948)
  96. Al Martino “Here in My Heart” (1952)
  97. Les Brown with Doris Day “My Dreams Are Getting Bigger All the Time” (1945)
  98. Eddie Fisher with Sally Sweetland & Hugo Winterhalter’s Orchestra “I'm Walking Behind You” (1953)
  99. Morris Stoloff & His Orchestra “Moonglow and Theme from ‘Picnic’” (1956)
  100. Jo Stafford “Make Love to Me!” (1954)
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First posted 9/6/2021.

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Friday, September 13, 2002

50 years ago: Jo Stafford's “You Belong to Me” hit #1 for first of 12 weeks

You Belong to Me

Jo Stafford

Writer(s): Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart (see lyrics here)

First Charted: August 9, 1952

Peak: 112 US, 19 HP, 14 CB, 11 UK, 16 AU (Click for codes to singles charts.)

Sales (in millions): 2.0 US

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 6.3 video, 15.49 streaming

Awards:

Click on award for more details.

About the Song:

Miss Chilton Price was a songwriting librarian at WAVE Radio in Louisville. She wrote a handful of songs and showed them to Pee Wee King, who had composed “Tennessee Waltz.” One of the songs, “Hurry Home to Me,” was as “an American woman’s plea to a sweetheart serving overseas in World War II.” WK After showing it to King and Redd Stewart, who provided vocals for King’s Golden West Cowboys, the setting of the song was retitled “You Belong to Me” and the setting was changed. WK

The once-wartime-themed song became more universal. The lyrics shared a story of the singer saying to a loved one, you “may travel all around the world and see many of the most famous sights,” TY but you belong to me. Price has said they had no part in writing the song, although Stewart’s son claims otherwise. SF It seems likely that King and Stewart tweaked the composition slightly, but mostly received songwriting credits for their work in publicizing the song. WK They’d provided a similar role for “Slow Poke,” a #1 song from 1951.

Sue Thompson recorded a version of the song, as did Patti Page as the B-side of her #1 hit “I Went to Your Wedding.” The song was also recorded by Jo Stafford, who’d had more than twenty top-ten hits in less than a decade, including the #1 song “Candy” in 1945. PM However, “You Belong to Me” became the biggest hit of 1952 WHC and of her career. PM

It also topped the U.K. chart, the first for a female singer there. SF Gene Vincent had a rock version with it in 1958 and the Duprees brought a doo-wop version back into the top 10 in 1962. Versions also appeared in the TV series Ally McBeal and in the movies Shrek (2001), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), and Grindhouse (2007). WK

Resources:

  • JA David A. Jasen. (2002). A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999). Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Inc. Page 221.
  • SB Songbook1.wordpress.com
  • SF Songfacts.com
  • TY Don Tyler (1985). Hit Parade 1920-1955. New York, NY: Quill. Page 152.
  • PM Joel Whitburn (1986). Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Pages 405-7.
  • WHC Joel Whitburn (1999). A Century of Pop Music. Menomonee Falls, WI; Record Research, Inc. Page 73.
  • WK Wikipedia.org

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First posted 8/9/2012; last updated 11/12/2022.

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