1940s Top Ten

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1940s Top Ten Ciara Benton Brittany Eller
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After beginning our research we found that in the
1940s they actually didn't have the top 10 songs
on record for every year.
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1940s Top Ten

• 1) Frenesi, Artie Shaw2) In the Mood, Glenn
  Miller3) I'll Never Smile Again, Tommy Dorsey
• 4) Only Forever, Bing Crosby5) Tuxedo Junction,
  Glenn Miller6) Woodpecker Song, Glenn Miller7)
  Careless, Glenn Miller8) When You Wish Upon a
  Star, Glenn Miller
• 9) Trade Winds, Bing Crosby10) Ferry Boat
  Serenade, Andrews Sisters

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1941s Top Ten

• 1) Amapola, Jimmy Dorsey
• 2) Daddy, Sammy Kaye 3) Piano Concerto, Freddy
  Martin 4) Chattanooga Choo Choo, Glenn Miller
  5) Maria Elena, Jimmy Dorsey 6) Green Eyes,
  Jimmy Dorsey
• 7) You and I, Glenn Miller 8) There'll Be Some
  Changes Made, Benny Goodman 9) There I Go,
  Vaughn Monroe 10) We Three, Ink Spots

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1942s Top

• 1)  "White Christmas"  by Bing Crosby
• 2)  "Moonlight Cocktail"  by Glenn Miller
• 3)  "Jingle Jangle Jingle"  by Kay Kyser
• 4)  "I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo"  by Glenn
  Miller
• 5)  "Tangerine"  by Jimmy Dorsey

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1943S Top

• 1)  "I've Heard That Song Before"  by Harry
  James
• 2)  "Paper Doll"  by Mills Brothers
• 3)  "Piston Packin Mama"  by Al Dexter
• 4)  "Sunday, Monday or Always"  by Bing Crosby
• 5)  "You'll Never Know"  Dick Haynes
• 6)  "There are Such Things"  by Tommy Dorsey

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1944s Top Ten

• 1)  "Swing on a Star"  by Bing Crosby
• 2)  "Shoo-Shoo Baby"  by Andrews Sisters
• 3)  "Dont Fence Me In"  by Bing Crosby and
  Andrews Sisters
• 4)  "Besame Mucho"  by Jimmy Dorsey
• 5)  "I'll Get By"  by Harry James
• 6)  "Maizy Doats"  by Merry Macs
• 7)  "San Fernando Valley"  by Bing Crosby
• 8)  "I Love You"  by Bing Crosby
• 9)  "You Always Hurt the One You Love"  by Mills
  Brothers
• 10) "I'll Walk Alone"  by DInah Shore

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1945s Top

• 1)  "Rum Coca Cola"  by Andrews Sisters
• 2)  "Till the End of Time"  by Perry Como
• 3)  "Sentimental Journey"  by Les Brown
• 4)  "On the Atchinson, Topeka and the Sante Fe" 
  by Johnny Merser
• 5)  "My Dreams are Getting Better"  by Les Brown
• 6)  "I Can't Begin to Tell You"  by Bing Crosby
• 7)  "There! I've Said it Again"  by Vaughn
  Monroe
• 8)  "Chickery Chick"  by Sammy Kaye
• 9)  "White Christmas"  by Bing Crosby
• 10  "It's Been a Long Long Time"  by Bing Crosby

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1946s Top Ten

1)  "The Gypsy"  by Ink Spots 2)  "Oh What it
Seems to Be"  by Frankie Carle 3)  "Rumours are
Flying"  by Frankie Carle 4)  "The Gypsy"  by
Dinah Shore 5)  "To Each His Own"  by Eddy
Howard 6)  "Oh What it Seemed to be" by Frank
Sinatra 7)  "The Old Lamp Lighter"  by Sammy
Kaye 8)  "For Sentimental Reasons"  by Nat King
Cole 9)  "Let it Snow"  by Vaughn Monroe 10) 
"Prisoner of Love"  by Perry Como
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1947s Top Ten

• 1)  "Near You"  by Francis Craig
• 2)  "Heart Aches"  by Ted Weems
• 3)  "Ballerina"  by Caughn Monroe
• 4)  "Peg O My Heart"  by Harmonicats
• 5)  "Peg O My Heart"  by Buddy Clark 
• 6)  "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette"   by
  Tex Williams
• 7)  "Peg O My Heart"  by Three Suns
• 8)  "Huggin and Chalkin"  by Hoagy Carmichael
• 9)  "Managua, Nicaragua"  by Freddy Martin
• 10)  "Open the Door Richard"  by Count Basie

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1948s Top Ten

• 1)  "Buttons and Bows"  by Dinah Shore
• 2)  "Manana"  by Peggy Lee
• 3)  "12th Street Rag"  by Pee Wee Hunt
• 4)  "You Can't Be True, Dear" by Ken Griffin
• 5)  "Nature Boy"  by Nat King Cole
• 6)  "Woody Woodpecker"  by Kay Kyser
• 7)  "You Call Everybody Darling"  by Al Trace
• 8)  "Love Somebody"  by Doris Day
• 9)  "All I Want for Christmas"  by Spike Jones
• 10)  "Now is the Hour"  Bing Crosby

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1949s Top Ten

• 1)  "Riders in the Sky"  by Vaughn Monroe
• 2)  "That Lucky Old Sun"  by Frankie Laine
• 3)  "Cruising Down the River"  by Russ Morgan
• 4)  "Cruising Down the River"  by Blue Barron
• 5)  "A Little Bird Told Me"  by Evelyn Knight
• 6)  "Mile Train"  by Frankie Laine
• 7)  "Some Enchanted Evening"  by Perry Como
• 8)  "You're Breaking My Heart"  by Vic Damone
• 9)  "You're Adorable"  by Perry Como
• 10)  "Slippin Around"  Margaret Whiting

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