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Wednesday, August 9, 2023

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1890-2023

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1890-2022

These are the #1 pop songs in the history of the United States pop charts from 1890 to present. Songs could have hit #1 on any of the following charts:

Billboard Charts:
Non-Billboard Charts:

Links go to specific lists of the biggest songs of all time for that chart.

See other chart-based lists here.

Because this list includes more than 3000 songs, it has been broken up into pages by decades:

Resources/Related Links:

First posted 2/24/2021; last updated 8/9/2023.

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Friday, April 21, 2023

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1940-1949

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1940-1949

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1940 to 1949. Songs could have hit #1 on any of the following 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. The Gardner book does not indicate 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.

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

1940:

  1. 1/13: Shep Fields “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” (PM: 5)
  2. 1/27: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “All the Things You Are” (HP: 2)
  3. 2/3: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Careless” (HP: 5, GA: 4)
  4. 2/10: Glenn Miller “In the Mood” (JB: 13)

  5. 2/24: Tommy Dorsey with Jack Leonard “Indian Summer” (HP: 1)
  6. 3/16: Benny Goodman with Mildred Bailey “Darn That Dream” (HP: 1)
  7. 3/30: Cliff Edwards with the Ken Darby Singers & Victor Young’s Orchestra “When You Wish Upon a Star” (HP: 5, GA: 4)
  8. 3/31: Dick Jurgens with Eddy Howard “In an Old Dutch Garden” (GA: 4)
  9. 5/4: Glenn Miller “Tuxedo Junction” (PM: 9)
  10. 5/31: Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song” (GA: 8, HP: 7, PM: 5)
  11. 6/22: Glenn Miller “Imagination” (HP: 3)
  12. 6/29: Mitchell Ayres with Mary Ann Mercer “Make-Believe Island” (GA: 4, JB: 2, HP: 2)
  13. 7/20: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle “Fools Rush in Where Angels Fear to Tread” (HP: 1)
  14. 7/27: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “I’ll Never Smile Again” (BS: 12, GA: 8, HP: 7, JB: 6)
  15. 8/17: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Sierra Sue” (JB: 4, HP: 1)
  16. 8/24: Charlie Barnet with Mary Ann McCall “Where Was I?” (JB: 2)
  17. 9/7: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “The Breeze and I” (JB: 1)
  18. 9/28: The Ink Spots “Maybe” HP: 3)
  19. 10/5: Bob Chester’s Orchestra with Al Stuart “Practice Makes Perfect” (HP: 2)
  20. 10/19: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Only Forever” (BS: 9, GA: 4, HP: 3)
  21. 10/31: Glenn Miller “Blueberry Hill” (GA: 4)
  22. 11/23: The Andrews Sisters “Ferry Boat Serenade (La Piccinina)” (HP: 1)
  23. 11/30: Bing Crosby with Dick McIntyre’s Orchestra “Trade Winds” (HP: 1)
  24. 12/7: The Ink Spots “We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)” (GA: 4, HP: 1)
  25. 12/14: Vaughn Monroe “There I Go” (HP: 4)
  26. 12/21: Artie Shaw “Frenesi” (BS: 13, GA: 8, HP: 3)

1941:

  1. 2/1: Charlie Barnet’s Orchestra with Bob Carroll “I Hear a Rhapsody” (HP: 10, GA: 4)
  2. 3/15: Glenn Miller “Song of the Volga Boatmen” (BS: 1)
  3. 3/29: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)” (BS: 10, GA: 8, HP: 6)
  4. 4/19: Al Donahue with Dee Keating “A Wise Old Owl” (HP: 1)
  5. 5/31: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberle “My Sister and I” (BS: 2, HP: 2)
  6. 6/14: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Maria Elena” (GA: 8, BS: 2, HP: 2)
  7. 6/14: Guy Lombardo “Intermezzo (Souvenir De Vienne)” (GA: 4, HP: 2)
  8. 6/21: Sammy Kaye “Daddy” (BS: 8, HP: 6)
  9. 7/5: Freddy Martin with Eddie Stone “The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade)” (HP: 3)
  10. 8/30: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)” (BS: 4)
  11. 9/13: Glenn Miller “You and I” (HP: 5, GA: 4)
  12. 9/27: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Blue Champagne” (BS: 1)
  13. 10/4: Freddy Martin “Piano Concerto in B Flat” (BS: 8)
  14. 10/18: Horace Heidt with Larry Cotton, Donna Wood, & Don Juans “I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire” (GA: 8, HP: 4)
  15. 11/15: Tony Martin “Tonight We Love (Concerto No. 1, B Flat Minor)” (HP: 4)
  16. 11/29: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke & the Four Modernaires “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (BS: 9, GA: 8, HP: 2)
  17. 12/20: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires “Elmer’s Tune” (HP: 3, BS: 1)

1942:

  1. 1/10: Kay Kyser “There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover” (HP: 6, GA: 4)
  2. 2/7: Glenn Miller “A String of Pearls” (BS: 2)
  3. 2/14: Woody Herman “Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (HP: 2, BS: 1)
  4. 2/28: Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle & the Modernaires “Moonlight Cocktail” (BS: 10, GA: 4)
  5. 3/14: Horace Heidt “Deep in the Heart of Texas” (HP: 5, GA: 4)
  6. 4/18: Harry James “I Don't Want to Walk without You” (HP: 1)
  7. 4/25: Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee “Somebody Else Is Taking My Place” (GA: 4, HP: 3)
  8. 5/9: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell “Tangerine” (BS: 6)
  9. 5/16: Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me” (HP: 5)
  10. 6/13: Harry James “Sleepy Lagoon” (GA: 8, BS: 4, HP: 3)
  11. 7/4: Harry James with Jimmy Saunders “One Dozen Roses” (HP: 2)
  12. 7/18: Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway “Jingle Jangle Jingle” (BS: 8, HP: 5, GA: 4)
  13. 8/29: Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt “He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings” (GA: 4, HP: 4)
  14. 9/12: Glenn Miller with Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, & the Modernaires “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo” (BS: 7, GA: 4, HP: 1)
  15. 9/26: Vaughn Monroe “My Devotion” (HP: 4)
  16. 10/31: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “White Christmas” (BS: 14, HP: 10, GA: 8, DJ: 2) *

    * 11 weeks at #1 in 1942, 2 more weeks in 1945, 1 more in 1946

1943:

  1. 1/9: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers “There Are Such Things” (HP: 6, BS: 5, GA: 4)
  2. 1/23: Bing Crosby “Moonlight Becomes You” (GA: 4, HP: 2)
  3. 2/13: Harry James with Helen Forrest “I Had the Craziest Dream” (BS: 2)
  4. 3/6: Harry James with Helen Forrest “I’ve Heard That Song Before” (BS: 13, GA: 8, HP: 4)
  5. 3/6: Xavier Cugat “Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)” (HP: 3)
  6. 5/1: The Ink Spots “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” (HP: 3)
  7. 5/29: Glenn Miller with Skip Nelson & the Modernaires “That Old Black Magic” (BS: 1)
  8. 5/31: Dooley Wilson “As Time Goes By” (GA: 8, HP: 4)
  9. 6/12: Benny Goodman with Helen Forrest “Taking a Chance on Love” BS: 3)
  10. 6/12: Vaughn Monroe with the Four Lee Sisters “Let’s Get Lost” (HP: 1)
  11. 6/19: The Song Spinners “Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer” (GA: 4, BS: 3, HP: 3)
  12. 7/3: Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners “You’ll Never Know” (HP: 9, GA: 8, BS: 4)
  13. 8/21: Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra “In the Blue of the Evening” (BS: 3)
  14. 9/11: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Singers “Sunday, Monday or Always” (BS: 7, GA: 6)
  15. 9/11: Harry James with Frank Sinatra “All or Nothing at All” (HP: 1)
  16. 10/30: Al Dexter & His Troopers “Pistol Packin’ Mama” (GA: 4, BS: 1)
  17. 10/30: Bing Crosby with Trudy Erwin & Sportsmen Glee Club “People Will Say We’re in Love” (HP: 3)
  18. 10/31: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll” (BS: 12, GA: 12: HP: 3, JB: 1)
  19. 12/11: Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird “My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)” (HP: 9)

1944:

  1. 1/15: THe Andrews Sisters with Vico Schoen’s Orchestra “Shoo-Shoo Baby” (JB: 9, GA: 4, HP: 2)
  2. 1/29: Glen Gray with Eugenie Baird “My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)” (BS: 5)
  3. 2/26: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen “Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)” (GA: 8, BS: 7, HP: 3, JB: 1)
  4. 3/11: The Merry Macs “Mairzy Doats” (JB: 5, HP: 1)
  5. 3/18: Frank Sinatra with the Bobby Tucker Singers “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night” (HP: 1)
  6. 4/1: Guy Lombardo with Skip Nelson & the Lombardo Trio “It’s Love, Love, Love” (HP: 3, BS: 2)
  7. 4/15: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I Love You” (BS: 5, GA: 4, HP: 3, JB: 2)
  8. 4/29: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “San Fernando Valley” (JB: 5)
  9. 5/13: Dick Haymes with Helen Forrest with Camarata’s Orchestra “Long Ago and Far Away” (HP: 6, GA: 4)
  10. 6/10: Harry James with Dick Haymes “I’ll Get by As Long As I Have You” (JB: 6, BS: 4)
  11. 6/24: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “I’ll Be Seeing You” (HP: 10, GA: 8, BS: 4, JB: 1)
  12. 7/29: Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Amor” (HP: 2)
  13. 8/5: Bing Crosby with the Williams Brothers’ Quartet & John Scott Trotter’s Orchestra “Swinging on a Star” (BS: 9, JB: 8)
  14. 8/5: Louis Jordan “G.I. Jive” (JB: 2)
  15. 9/16: Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone” (GA: 12, HP: 8, BS: 4, JB: 1)
  16. 10/7: The Mills Brothers with Doris Fisher & Allan Roberts “You Always Hurt the One You Love” (BS: 5)
  17. 10/14: Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin When the Yanks Go Marching In” (JB: 6)
  18. 11/4: Russ Morgan with Al Jennings “Dance with a Dolly with a Hole in Her Stocking” (HP: 1)
  19. 11/18: Judy Garland with Georgie Stoll’s Orchestra “The Trolley Song” (HP: 5, GA: 4)
  20. 12/2: The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald, Allan Roberts, & Doris Fisher “Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall” (JB: 2)
  21. 12/9: The Ink Spots with Ella Fitzgerald “I’m Making Believe” (BS: 2)
  22. 12/16: Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters with Vico Schoen’s Orchestra “Don’t Fence Me In” (BS: 8, JB: 8, HP: 8, DJ: 7, GA: 4)

1945:

  1. 2/10: The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “Rum and Coca-Cola” (JB: 10, BS: 8)
  2. 2/10: Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers & Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” (GA: 8, HP: 4, PM: 2, DJ: 2)
  3. 3/17: Frankie Carle with Paul Allen “A Little on the Lonely Side” (HP: 1)
  4. 3/24: Les Brown with Doris Day “My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time” (GA: 8, BS: 7, JB: 7, HP: 3, DJ: 3)
  5. 3/31: Johnny Mercer with Joe Stafford, the Pied Pipers, & Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Candy” (HP: 4, DJ: 1, JB: 1)
  6. 3/31: Harry James with Kitty Kallen “I’m Beginning to See the Light” (DJ: 2, HP: 2)
  7. 5/5: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey” (BS: 9, GA: 8, DJ: 7, JB: 7, HP: 4)

  8. 5/5: The Pied Pipers with Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Dream (When You’re Feeling Blue)” (HP: 6, DJ: 1)
  9. 5/12: Vaughn Monroe with the Norton Sisters “There! I’ve Said It Again” (DJ: 6)
  10. 6/2: Woody Herman “Laura” (HP: 1)
  11. 7/28: Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers & Paul Weston’s Orchestra “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe” (JB: 8, GA: 8, BS: 7, DJ: 6)
  12. 7/28: Dick Haymes “The More I See You” (HP: 1)
  13. 9/1: Perry Como with Russell Case’s Orchestra “Till the End of Time” (BS: 10, DJ: 9, JB: 9, GA: 8, HP: 7)
  14. 10/20: Dick Haymes with Helen Forrest & Victor Young’s Orchestra “I’ll Buy That Dream” (HP: 2)
  15. 11/10: Harry James with Kitty Kallen “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (HP: 5, GA: 4, BS: 3, DJ: 2)
  16. 11/10: Bing Crosby with Les Paul & His Trio “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” (HP: 5, GA: 4, JB: 2, BS: 1)
  17. 11/17: Sammy Kaye with Nancy Norman & Billy Williams “Chickery Chick” (DJ: 4, BS: 3, JB: 2)
  18. 12/15: Dick Haymes with Victor Young’s Orchestra “It Might As Well Be Spring” (HP: 3)
  19. 12/15: Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro “I Can’t Begin to Tell You” (JB: 6, BS: 1, HP: 1)

1946:

  1. 1/5: Freddy Martin with Clyde Rogers “Symphony” (GA: 8, HP: 7, BS: 2, DJ: 1)
  2. 1/19: Vaughn Monroe with the Norton Sisters “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” (BS: 5, DJ: 5, JB: 5, HP: 2)
  3. 2/9: Betty Hutton with Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief” (DJ: 2, BS: 1)
  4. 3/2: Johnny Mercer with the Pied Pipers & Paul Weston’s Orchestra “Personality” (DJ: 2, BS: 1)
  5. 3/16: Frankie Carle with Marjoie Hughes “Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (JB: 11, GA: 8, HP: 8, BS: 6)
  6. 3/16: Frank Sinatra with Axel Stordahl’s Orchestra “Oh! What It Seemed to Be” (DJ: 8, GA: 8, HP: 8)
  7. 4/27: Sammy Kaye with Betty Barclay “I’m a Big Girl Now” (BS: 1)
  8. 5/4: Perry Como with Russ Case’s Orchestra “Prisoner of Love” (BS: 3, DJ: 2)
  9. 5/11: Perry Como “All Through the Day” (HP: 2)
  10. 5/18: Dinah Shore with Sonny Burke’s Orchestra “The Gypsy” (GA: 12, DJ: 8, HP: 6)
  11. 5/25: The Ink Spots “The Gypsy” (JB: 13, GA: 12, BS: 10, HP: 6, DJ: 2)

  12. 5/25: Dinah Shore “Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside” (GA: 4, HP: 1)
  13. 7/6: Frank Sinatra “They Say It’s Wonderful” (HP: 4)
  14. 8/3: Eddy Howard “To Each His Own” (DJ: 8, HP: 8, GA: 8, JB: 6, BS: 5)
  15. 8/3: Freddy Martin with Stuart Wade “To Each His Own” (HP: 8, GA: 8, BS: 2)
  16. 8/3: The Ink Spots “To Each His Own” (HP: 8, GA: 8, BS: 1)
  17. 8/3: Perry Como with Russ Case’s Orchestra “Surrender” (BS: 1)
  18. 9/14: Frank Sinatra with Alex Stordahl’s Orchestra “Five Minutes More” (DJ: 4, HP: 4, JB: 3, BS: 2)
  19. 10/19: Frankie Carle with Marjorie Hughes “Rumors Are Flying” (DJ: 9, BS: 8, JB: 8, GA: 4, HP: 2)
  20. 11/30: Kay Kyser with Michael Doughlas & the Campus Kids “Ole Buttermilk Sky” (HP: 6, GA: 4, BS: 2)
  21. 12/21: Sammy Kaye with Billy Williams & Choir “The Old Lamp-Lighter” (BS: 7, JB: 7, GA: 4, DJ: 1)
  22. 12/28: The Nat “King” Cole Trio “I Love You for Sentimental Reasons” (HP: 7, DJ: 6, GA: 4, BS: 1)

1947:

  1. 2/8: Hoagy Carmichael with the Chickadees & Vic Schoen’s Orchestra “Huggin’ and Chalkin’” (JB: 2)
  2. 2/22: Freddy Martin with Stuart Wade & Ensemble “Managua, Nicaragua” (JB: 3, BS: 2)
  3. 2/22: Count Basie with Harry Edison & Bill Johnson “Open the Door, Richard!” (BS: 1, DJ: 1)
  4. 2/22: Johnny Mercer “A Gal in Calico” (HP: 1)
  5. 3/1: The Three Flames with Tiger Haynes “Open the Door, Richard!” (DJ: 1)
  6. 3/8: Dinah Shore with Morris Stoloff’s Orchestra “The Anniversary Song” (HP: 6, GA: 4, DJ: 2)
  7. 3/15: Ted Weems with Elmo Tanner “Heartaches” (JB: 13, BS: 12, DJ: 11, GA: 4, HP: 2)
  8. 5/3: Ray Noble with Buddy Clark “Linda” (HP: 4, DJ: 2)
  9. 5/17: Frank Sinatra with Axel Stordahl’s Orchestra “Mam’selle” (GA: 8, HP: 3, DJ: 1)
  10. 5/17: Art Lund with Johnny Thompson’s Orchestra “Mam’selle” (GA: 8, HP: 3, BS: 2)

  11. 6/21: The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart” (GA: 12, HP: 10, JB: 8, BS: 4)
  12. 6/21: Buddy Clark with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Peg O’ My Heart” (GA: 12, HP: 10, DJ: 6)
  13. 6/21: The Three Suns “Peg O’ My Heart” (GA: 12, HP: 10, JB: 3, DJ: 1)
  14. 6/28: Perry Como with the Satisfiers & Lloyd Shaffer’s Orchestra “Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go to Sleep)” (BS: 3)
  15. 6/28: Red Ingle & the Natural Seven with Cinderella G. Stump & Jo Stafford “Temptation (Tim-Tayshun)” (DJ: 1)
  16. 6/28: Eddy Howard “I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder” (HP: 1)
  17. 8/9: Tex Williams & His Wester Caravan “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette” (BS: 6, JB: 4, DJ: 1)
  18. 8/23: Frankie Laine “That’s My Desire” (HP: 2)
  19. 8/30: Francis Craig’s Orchestra with Bob Lamm “Near You” (DJ: 17, JB: 13, BS: 12, GA: 12, HP: 6)

  20. 9/6: Perry Como with Ted Weems “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (HP: 1)
  21. 9/27: Dorothy Shay “Feudin’ and Fightin’” (HP: 1)
  22. 10/4: Vaughn Monroe “I Wish I Didn’t Love You So” (HP: 3)
  23. 11/22: Dinah Shore “You Do” (HP: 1)
  24. 12/13: Vaughn Monroe “Ballerina” (BS: 10, DJ: 8, JB: 7, HP: 4, GA: 4)
  25. 12/13: Louis Prima “Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)” (HP: 1)
  26. 12/20: Jack Owens with Eddie Bellantyne’s Orchestra “How Soon Will I Be Seeing You?” (HP:

1948:

  1. 1/2: Arthur Godfrey “Too Fat Polka (I Don’t Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat for Me)” (DJ: 1)
  2. 1/31: Peggy Lee “Golden Earrings” (HP: 1)
  3. 2/21: Art Mooney “I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover” (JB: 5, DJ: 4, GA: 4, BS: 3, HP: 2)
  4. 2/28: Bing Crosby with the Ken Darby Choir “Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)” (GA: 12, HP: 10, JB: 3)
  5. 3/13: Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour & the Brazilians “Manana Is Soon Enough for Me” (BS: 9, DJ: 7, JB: 5, HP: 1)
  6. 5/8: Nat “King” Cole with Frank DeVol’s Orchestra “Nature Boy” (DJ: 8, BS: 7, HP: 6, GA: 4)
  7. 5/22: Ken Griffin with Jerry Wayne “You Can’t Be True, Dear” (JB: 7, HP: 3)
  8. 7/3: Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood “Woody Woodpecker” (BS: 6, DJ: 6, JB: 6, GA: 4, HP: 2)
  9. 8/7: Doris Day “It’s Magic” (HP: 2)
  10. 8/14: Al Trace with Bob Vincent “You Call Everybody Darlin’” (JB: 6, GA: 4, BS: 2, HP: 1)
  11. 8/14: Doris Day and Buddy Clark with George Siravo’s Orchestra “Love Somebody” (DJ: 5)
  12. 8/21: Margaret Whiting “A Tree in the Meadow” (HP: 10, DJ: 5, GA: 4, BS: 2)
  13. 8/28: Pee Wee Hunt “Twelfth Street Rag” (BS: 8, JB: 6, DJ: 4)
  14. 8/31: Jon Steele & Sandra “My Happiness” (GA: 4)
  15. 11/6: Dinah Shore & Her Happy Valley Boys “Buttons and Bows” (GA: 12, BS: 10, HP: 10, JB: 9, DJ: 5)
  16. 12/25: Spike Jones & His City Slickers with George Rock “All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” (DJ: 3, BS: 1)

1949:

  1. 1/8: Kay Kyser with Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood “On a Slow Boat to China” (HP: 2)
  2. 1/15: Evelyn Knight with the Stardusters “A Little Bird Told Me” (BS: 7, JB: 7, DJ: 6, GA: 4, HP: 3)
  3. 1/15: Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae with the Starlighters “My Darling, My Darling” (DJ: 1)
  4. 2/19: Evelyn Knight with the Stardusters “Powder Your Face with Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)” (HP: 2, JB: 1)
  5. 2/26: Margaret Whiting “Far Away Places” (HP: 3)
  6. 3/5: Les Brown “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” (DJ: 1)
  7. 3/12: Blue Barron “Cruising Down the River” (HP: 8, GA: 8, DJ: 7, JB: 3, BS: 2)
  8. 3/12: Russ Morgan with the Skylarks “Cruising Down the River” (GA: 12, HP: 8, BS: 7, JB: 6)
  9. 4/30: Mel Tormé with Sonny Burke’s Orchestra “Careless Hands” (DJ: 1)
  10. 5/7: Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters & Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “A – You’re Adorable” (DJ: 2)
  11. 5/7: Russ Morgan with the Skylarks “Forever and Ever (Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat)” (GA: 4, JB: 3)
  12. 5/14: Vaughn Monroe “Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)” (DJ: 12, BS: 11, JB: 10, GA: 8, HP: 3)
  13. 5/28: Doris Day & the Mellomen “Again” (HP: 2)
  14. 6/25: Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “Some Enchanted Evening” (HP: 10, BS: 5, JB: 5, GA: 4, DJ: 2)

  15. 8/27: Vic Damone with Glenn Osser’s Orchestra “You’re Breaking My Heart” (GA: 8, HP: 6, BS: 4, DJ: 4, JB: 3)
  16. 9/10: Vaughn Monroe with the Moon Men “Someday You’ll Want Me to Want You” (DJ: 2, JB: 2)
  17. 9/10: Sammy Kaye with Don Cornell “A Room Full of Roses” (HP: 2)
  18. 10/1: Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon’s Rhythmaires & Harry Geller’s Orchestra “That Lucky Old Sun” (BS: 8, DJ: 7, JB: 5, GA: 4, HP: 3)
  19. 11/12: Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely “Slipping Around” (JB: 3)
  20. 11/19: Gordon Jenkins with Betty Brewer “Don’t Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)” (HP: 3)
  21. 11/26: Frankie Laine & the Muleskinners “Mule Train” (BS: 6, DJ: 6, JB: 6, GA: 4, HP: 1)
  22. 12/17: The Andrews Sisters with Gordon Jenkins’ Orchestra “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” (HP: 2)
  23. 12/31: Perry Como with the Fontane Sisters & Mitchell Ayres’ Orchestra “A Dreamer’s Holiday” (HP: 1)

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First posted 4/21/2023; last updated 4/22/2023.

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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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Sunday, October 3, 2021

Your Hit Parade: Top 100+ Songs

Your Hit Parade, Biggest #1 Songs:

1935-1958

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.

See other chart-based lists here.

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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.

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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Your Hit Parade, 1935-1959

Originally posted 4/6/2019.

Your Hit Parade was an American music program which ran on radio from 1935 to 1953 and from 1950 to 1959 on television. These were the top songs on Your Hit Parade from 1935 to 1959, according to Jitterbuzz.com.

  • 1935: Fred Astaire “Cheek to Cheek”
  • 1936: Bing Crosby “Pennies from Heaven”
  • 1937: Bing Crosby with Lani McIntire & His Hawaiians “Sweet Leilani”
  • 1938: Artie Shaw “Begin the Beguine”
  • 1939: Glenn Miller “Moonlight Serenade”

  • 1940: Cliff Edwards “When You Wish Upon a Star”
  • 1941: Artie Shaw “Stardust”
  • 1942: Glenn Miller “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else But Me”
  • 1943: Judy Garland “Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart”
  • 1944: Judy Garland “The Trolley Song”
  • 1945: Johnny Mercer “On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe”
  • 1946: Bing Crosby “Sioux City Sue”
  • 1947: Count Basie “Open the Door, Richard”
  • 1948: Doris Day “It’s Magic”
  • 1949: Frankie Laine “Mule Train”

  • 1950: Teresa Brewer “Music! Music! Music!”
  • 1951: Les Paul & Mary Ford “How High the Moon”
  • 1952: The Mills Brothers “The Glow Worm”
  • 1953: Perry Como “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes”
  • 1954: Rosemary Clooney “This Ole House”
  • 1955: Bill Haley & His Comets “We’re Gonna Rock Around the Clock”
  • 1956: Elvis Presley “Don’t Be Cruel”
  • 1957: Debbie Reynolds “Tammy”
  • 1958: Domenico Modugno “Nel Blu, Dipinto De Blu (Volare)”
  • 1959: Bobby Darin “Mack the Knife”
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Saturday, June 2, 2001

Today in Music (1951): “Too Young” topped Your Hit Parade for the first of 12 weeks

Too Young

Nat “King” Cole with Les Baxter’s Orchestra

Writer(s): Sid Lippman (music), Sylvia Dee (words) (see lyrics here)

First Charted: April 14, 1951

Peak: 15 BB, 15 BS, 14 DJ, 14 JB, 112 HP, 17 CB, 112 UK, 19 AU (Click for codes to charts.)

Sales (in millions): 1.0 US

Airplay/Streaming (in millions): -- radio, 7.23 video, 9.8 streaming

Awards (Nat “King” Cole’s version):

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Awards (Toni Arden’s version):

Awards (Jimmy Young’s version):

About the Song:

On June 2, 1951, “Too Young” ascended to the top of the Your Hit Parade chart. By the time it finished its reigned, it had logged a dozen weeks at #1, making it the biggest song in the history of Your Hit Parade. The radio program launched in 1935 and evolved into a television program, running until 1958. The charts didn’t list specific artists as this was an era when it was common for multiple artists to record the same song. “Too Young” came about when lyricist Sylvia Dee mentioned to the song’s co-writer Sid Lippman that her brother was getting married but she thought he was too young. According to Sid they looked at each other and said, “Title?” MS

It was first recorded by Louanne Hogan with Victor Young & His Orchestra on November 22, 1950. MS It was Nat “King” Cole’s version, however, which was the first to chart and became the most successful. Nelson Riddle arranged the song – as he had also done for Cole’s version of “Mona Lisa” – but in both cases the credit was given to Les Baxter, who conducted the orchestra. MS Cole recorded his million-selling version on February 6, 1951 and it topped Billboard magazine’s three major pop charts – Best Sellers, Disc Jockey Hits, and Jukebox Hits. It also topped the Cashbox charts and reached #1 in the UK and Australia.

Other versions to chart in 1951 included Toni Arden (#15 US), Patty Andrews (#19 US), Fran Allison (#20 US), Richard Hayes (#24 US), and Jimmy Young (#1 UK). Bill Forbes revived the song in 1960 (#29 UK) and Donny Osmond – then fourteen years old – brought it back in 1972 (#13 US, #5 UK). Michael Jackson recorded it in 1973.

Cole once said this was perhaps his favorite of all the songs he recorded. MS Michael Winter, the host of “The Greatest Hits Explained,” called it “one of the most beautiful love songs ever.” MS Billboard magazine named Cole’s version the top song of 1951. MS

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