For fans of this music from the 40s here is
Time Life's 1940 Hits parade listed by year
1940 - 1949
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Michael Rizzo Chessman
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1940
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Frenesi
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Darn That Dream
Bing Crosby - Only Forever
Bing Crosby - Sierra Sue
Bing Crosby - Trade Winds
Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - Down Argentina Way
Cliff Ukelele Ike Edwards - When You Wish upon a Star
Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra - Body and Soul
Connee Boswell - On the Isle of May
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Blueberry Hill
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - In the Mood
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Pennsylvania 6-5000
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - The Breeze and I
Judy Garland - I'm Nobody's Baby
Lillian Lil Green - Romance in the Dark
Mitchell Ayres & His Fashions in Music - Make Believe Island
The Andrews Sisters - Ferryboat Serenade
The Ink Spots - Maybe
The Ink Spots - We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - All the Things You Are
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - I'll Never Smile Again
Tony Martin - It's a Blue World
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There I Go
Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar
1941
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Stardust
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - There'll Be Some Changes Made
Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child
Bing Crosby - Dolores
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - New San Antonio Rose
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - I Hear a Rhapsody
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Take the 'A' Train
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown
Glenn Miller - Elmer's Tune
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo
Harry James & His Orchestra - You Made Me Love You
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Amapola
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Green Eyes
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Maria Elena
Kay Kyser - 'Til Reveille
Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Daddy
The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Andrews Sisters - I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time
The Ink Spots - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Oh! Look at Me Now
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Yes, Indeed!
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Racing with the Moon
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - Perfidia
1942
Alvino Rey & His Orchestra - Deep in the Heart of Texas
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Jersey Bounce
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
Bing Crosby - Be Careful, It's My Heart
Dinah Shore - Blues in the Night
Freddie Slack & His Orchestra - Cow Cow Boogie
Gene KellyJudy Garland - For Me and My Gal
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - (I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - A String of Pearls
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Moonlight Cocktail
Hamton, Lionel & His Orchestra - Flying Home
Harry James & His Orchestra - I Don't Want to Walk Without You
Harry James & His Orchestra - One Dozen Roses
Harry James & His Orchestra - Sleepy Lagoon
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Tangerine
Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka
Kate Smith - (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
Kay Kyser - (I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle
Kay Kyser - Who Wouldn't Love You
Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Trav'lin' Light
Sammy Kaye - I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - There Are Such Things
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - My Devotion
1943
Al Dexter and His Troopers - Pistol Packin' Mama
Arthur Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Taking a Chance on Love
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Why Don't You Do Right
Bing Crosby - Moonlight Becomes You
Bing Crosby - Sunday, Monday Or Always
Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin - People Will Say We're In Love
Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners - You'll Never Know
Dinah Shore - You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To
Fred Astaire - I'm Old Fashioned
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Juke Box Saturday Night
Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - That Old Black Magic
Harry James & His Orchestra - I Had The Craziest Dream
Harry James & His Orchestra - I've Heard That Song Before
Judy Garland - Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather
The Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Any More
The Mills Brothers - Paper Doll
The Song Spinners - Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - In The Blue Of The Evening
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Let's Get Lost
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - When the Lights Go on Again (All over the World)
Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Brazil
1944
Bing Crosby - I'll Be Seeing You
Bing Crosby - San Fernando Valley
Bing Crosby - Swinging on a Star
Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest - It Had to Be You
Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest - Long Ago (And Far Away)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - My Heart Tells Me
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - It's Love, Love, Love
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Speak Low (When You Speak, Love)
Harry James & His Orchestra - Cherry
Harry James & His Orchestra - I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
Helen Forrest - Time Waits for No One
Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
Jo Stafford - It Could Happen to You
Judy Garland - The Trolley Song
Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra - Don't Sweetheart Me
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - G.I. Jive
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby
Nat King Cole - Straighten up and Fly Right
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Artistry in Rhythm
The Andrews Sisters - Shoo Shoo Baby
The Merry Macs - Mairzy Doats
The Mills Brothers - You Always Hurt the One You Love
1945
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Gotta Be This or That
Bing Crosby - I Can't Begin to Tell You
Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - You Belong To My Heart
Bing CrosbyThe Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In
Dick Haymes - It Might as Well Be Spring
Dick HaymesHelen Forrest - I'll Buy That Dream
Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - A Little on the Lonely Side
Harry James & His Orchestra - It's Been a Long, Long Time
Harry James & His OrchestraKitty Kallen - I'm Beginning to See the Light
Jo StaffordJohnny MercerThe Pied Pipers - Candy
Johnny Mercer - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
Johnny Mercer - On The Atchison, Topeka and The Sante Fe
Les Brown & His Orchestra - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
Les Brown & His Orchestra - Sentimental Journey
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Caldonia
Perry Como - Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba)
Perry Como - If I Loved You
Perry Como - Till the End of Time
Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - There Goes That Song Again
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Tampico
The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola
The Pied Pipers - Dream
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There! I've Said It Again
Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Laura
1946
Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Bing Crosby - Sioux City Sue
Bing CrosbyThe Andrews Sisters - South America, Take It Away!
Dinah Shore - Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside)
Dinah Shore - You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
Ella FitzgeraldLouis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)
Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Rumours Are Flying
Freddy Martin - Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
Freddy Martin - Symphony
Johnny Mercer - Personality
Kay Kyser - Ole Buttermilk Sky
Les Brown & His Orchestra - I Got the Sun in the Morning
Les Brown & His Orchestra - The Whole World Is Singing My Song
Margaret Whiting - Come Rain or Come Shine
Peggy Lee - I Don't Know Enough About You
Perry Como - Prisoner of Love
Perry Como - Surrender
Perry Como - They Say It's Wonderful
Sammy Kaye - I'm a Big Girl Now
Sammy Kaye - The Old Lamplighter
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy
The Ink Spots - The Gypsy
The Ink Spots - To Each His Own
1947
Al Jolson - Anniversary Song
Art Lund - Mam'selle
Buddy Clark - Peg O' My Heart
Claude Thornhill & His Orchesta - A Sunday Kind of Love
Count Basie Orchestra - Open the Door, Richard
Danny Kaye and The Andrews Sisters - Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)
Dinah Shore - You Do
Dorothy Shay - Feudin' and Fightin'
Eddy Howard & His Orchestra - I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder
Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Near You
Frankie Laine - That's My Desire
Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - Managua, Nicaragua
Hoagy Carmichael - Huggin' and Chalkin'
Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Margaret Whiting - Guilty
Perry Como - Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)
Perry Como - When You Were Sweet Sixteen
Ray Noble & His Orchestra - Linda
Sam Donahue & His Orchestra - I Never Knew
Ted Weems & His Orchestra - Heartaches
Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Orchestra - A Gal in Calico
The Mills Brothers - Across the Alley from the Alamo
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - I Wish I Didn't Love You So
1948
Art Mooney & His Orchestra - Baby Face
Art Mooney & His Orchestra - I'm Looking over a Four Leaf Clover
Bing Crosby - Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
Buddy ClarkDoris Day - Love Somebody
Dick HaymesGordon Jenkins - Little White Lies
Dinah Shore - Buttons and Bows
Doris Day - It's Magic
Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Beg Your Pardon
Gordon Jenkins - Maybe You'll Be There
Gordon MacRaeThe Starlighters - Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue
Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Harry Babbit, Gloria Wood - On a Slow Boat to China
Ken Griffin - You Can't Be True, Dear
Margaret Whiting - A Tree in the Meadow
Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra - Twelfth Street Rag
Peggy Lee - Golden Earrings
Peggy Lee - Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)
Perry Como - Because
Ray Noble & His Orchestra - I'll Dance at Your Wedding
Sammy Kaye - Serenade of the Bells
The Andrews Sisters - Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)
The Ink Spots - You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Until
Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Sabre Dance
1949
Bing Crosby - Galway Bay
Blue Barron - Cruising Down The River
Dick Haymes - Maybe It's Because
Doris Day - Again
Evelyn Knight & The Stardusters - Powder Your Face With Sunshine
Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters - A Little Bird Told Me
Frankie Laine - Mule Train
Frankie Laine - That Lucky Old Sun
Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra - Don't Cry Joe
Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae - My Darling, My Darling
Les Brown - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Margaret Whiting - Far Away Places
Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely - Slipping Around
Margaret Whiting & Johnny Mercer - Baby, Its Cold Outside
Mel Torme - Careless Hands
Perry Como - Bali Ha'i
Perry Como - Some Enchanted Evening
Perry Como & The Fontaine Sisters - A You're Adorable
Russ Morgan - Forever And Ever
Russ Morgan - So Tired
Sammy Kaye - Lavender Blue
Sammy Kaye - Room Full of Roses
Vaughn Monroe - Riders In The Sky
Vaughn Monroe - Someday
