Top Hits of the 1940s

• Top hits in popular music:
  • 1940: All the Things You Are (Tommy Dorsey); Blueberry Hill (Glenn Miller); The Breeze and I (Jimmy Dorsey); Careless (Glenn Miller); Darn That Dream (Benny Goodman); Ferry Boat Serenade (Andrews Sisters); Fools Rush In (Glenn Miller); Frenesi (Artie Shaw); I'll Never Smile Again (Tommy Dorsey); Imagination (Glenn Miller; also Tommy Dorsey); In the Mood (Glenn Miller); Indian Summer (Tommy Dorsey); Make Believe Island (Mitchell Ayres); Only Forever (Bing Crosby); Sierra Sue (Bing Crosby); There I Go (Vaughn Monroe); Trade Winds (Bing Crosby); When You Wish Upon A Star (Glenn Miller); Where Was I? (Charlie Barnet); The Woodpecker Song (Glenn Miller )
  • 1941: Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey); Beat Me Daddy (Eight To the Bar) (Will Bradley); Blue Champagne (Jimmy Dorsey); Chattanooga Choo Choo (Glenn Miller); Daddy (Sammy Kaye); Dream Valley (Sammy Kaye); Elmer's Tune (Glenn Miller); Green Eyes (Jimmy Dorsey); High on a Windy Hill (Jimmy Dorsey); I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire (Horace Heidt); I Hear A Rhapsody (Jimmy Dorsey); In The Mood (Glenn Miller); Intermezzo (Guy Lombardo); Maria Elena (Jimmy Dorsey); My Sister and I (Jimmy Dorsey); 'Till Reveille (Kay Kyser); Tonight We Love (Piano Concerto In B Flat) (Freddy Martin); We Three (My Echo, My Shadow & Me) (Ink Spots); You and I (Glenn Miller )
  • 1942: Blues In the Night (Woody Herman); Deep In the Heart of Texas (Alvino Ray); Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (Glenn Miller); He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings (Kay Kyser); I Don't Want To Walk Without You (Harry James); I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo (Glenn Miller); Jersey Bounce (Benny Goodman); Jingle, Jangle, Jingle (Kay Kyser); Moonlight Cocktail (Glenn Miller & his Orchestra); Sleepy Lagoon (Harry James); 
    Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (Benny Goodman); Tangerine (The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra); White Christmas (Bing Crosby); The White Cliffs of Dover (Kay Kyser)
  • 1943: All Or Nothing At All - Frank Sinatra with Harry James; As Time Goes By - Rudy Vallee; Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer - Song Spinners; I Had the Craziest Dream - Harry James Orchestra; I've Heard That Song Before - Harry James; In the Blue of Evening - The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra; It Can't Be Wrong - Dick Haymes; Let's Get Lost - Vaughn Monroe; Mister Five By Five - Harry James; Moonlight Becomes You - Bing Crosby; Paper Doll - Mills Brothers; Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter; Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser; Sunday, Monday, or Always - Bing Crosby; Taking a Chance on Love - Benny Goodman; That Old Black Magic - The Glen Miller Orchestra; There Are Such Things - Tommy Dorsey; When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World) - Vaughn Monroe; You'll Never Know - Dick Haymes with The Song Spinners
  • 1944: Bésame Mucho - Jimmy Dorsey; Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters; G. I. Jive - Louis Jordan; I Love You - Bing Crosby; I'll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby; I'll Get By - Harry James; I'll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore; I'm Making Believe - Ella Fitzgerald and The Ink Spots; It's Love, Love, Love - Guy Lombardo; Mairzy Doats - Merry Macs; My Heart Tells Me - Glen Gray; Shoo Shoo Baby - The Andrews Sisters; San Fernando Valley - Bing Crosby; Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby
  • 1945: Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive- Johnny Mercer; Candy - Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford; Chickery Chick - Sammy Kaye; Dream - Pied Pipers; I Can't Begin To Tell You - Bing Crosby w/Carmen Cavallaro; I'm Beginning To See the Light - Harry James; It's Been a Long, Long Time (Bing Crosby with Les Paul; also Harry James); My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time - Les Brown; On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer; Rum and Coca-Cola - The Andrews Sisters; Sentimental Journey - Les Brown; There, I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe; Till the End of Time - Perry Como; White Christmas - Bing Crosby
  • 1946: Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (Betty Hutton); (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (Nat "King" Cole); 
    Five Minutes More (Frank Sinatra); The Gypsy (Ink Spots, also Dinah Shore); I'm a Big Girl Now (Sammy Kaye); Oh! What It Seemed To Be (Frankie Carle, also Frank Sinatra); The Old Lamplighter (Sammy Kaye); Ole Buttermilk Sky (Kay Kyser); Personality (Johnny Mercer); Prisoner of Love (Perry Como); Rumors Are Flying (Frankie Carle, also Les Paul); Surrender (Perry Como); Symphony (Freddy Martin); To Each His Own (Eddy Howard, also Ink Spots, and Freddy Martin ); Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (The Weavers)
  • 1947: The Anniversary Song (Dinah Shore); Ballerina (Vaughn Monroe); Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (Perry Como); Heartaches (Ted Weems); Huggin' and Chalkin' (Hoagy Carmichael); Linda (Ray Noble with Buddy Clark); Mam'selle (Art Lund; also Frank Sinatra); Managua, Nicaragua (Guy Lombardo; also Freddy Martin); Near You ( Francis Craig); Open the Door, Richard (Count Basie; also The Three Flames); Peg o' My Heart (Buddy Clark; also Harmonicats, and Three Suns); Temptation (Red Ingle); White Christmas (Bing Crosby)
  • 1948: Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore; I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Art Mooney; Love Somebody - Doris Day and Buddy Clark; Mañana (Is Soon Enough For Me) - Peggy Lee; Nature Boy - Nat "King" Cole; Now Is the Hour - Bing Crosby; A Tree In the Meadow - Margaret Whiting; Woody Woodpecker - Kay Kyser; You Call Everybody Darling - Al Trace; You Can't Be True, Dear - Ken Griffin
  • 1949: "A" You're Adorable - Perry Como; All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones; Baby, It's Cold Outside (Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan; Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting; and Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark); Bali Hai (Perry Como; and Paul Weston); Careless Hands - Mel Torme; Cruising Down the River (Blue Baron; also Russ Morgan); Forever and Ever - Russ Morgan; I Can Dream, Can't I? - Andrews Sisters; I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Les Brown); A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight; Mule Train - Frankie Laine; My Darling, My Darling - Jo Stafford and Gordon McRae; Powder Your Face With Sunshine - Evelyn Knight; Red Roses For A Blue Lady (Guy Lombardo; and Vaughn Monroe); Riders In the Sky - Vaughn Monroe; Slippin' Around - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely; Some Enchanted Evening (Perry Como; Bing Crosby; Ezio Pinza; Frank Sinatra; Jo Stafford; and Paul Weston); Someday - Vaughn Monroe; That Lucky Old Sun - Frankie Laine; A Wonderful Guy - Margaret Whiting; You're Breaking My Heart - Vic Damone