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Americas Greatest Hits 1941
Americas Greatest Hits 1941
We continue our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1942, the second full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940. This great value 85-track 4-CD set comprises every record which appeared in the Best Sellers Top 10 during the year - the chart was restricted to ten places in those days. The big names of the swing era were very much in evidence, and the year started with Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo" at No. 1 and finished Dinah Shore's "Dearly Beloved" with occupying the top spot. In between, a host of other big names made their presence felt - Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman and others - alongside many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days like Kay Kyser and Alvino Rey. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when the USA had become fully embroiled in WWII and there were plenty of patriotic and sentimental wartime hits to give a period flavour, with prolific hitmaker Glenn Miller epitomising that particular strand. It includes a 10,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 4 |
Released | January 6, 2017 |
EAN/UPC | 0824046710828 |
Label | ACROBAT ACQCD7108 |
Genre | Pop |
Dimensions | 124 × 142 × 23 mm · 207 g |
Track list
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1. CD
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. & Tex Beneke - Chattanooga Choo Cho
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. &ray Eberle - Elmer's Tune
- Freddy Martin & His Orch. - Piano Concerto in B Flat
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. & F. Sinatra - This Love of Mine
- Bing Crosby - Shepherd Serenade
- Harry James & His Orch. - You Made Me Love You
- Woody Herman - Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
- Charlie Spivak & His Orch. - This is No Laughing Matter
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - a String of Pearls
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. & H. Babbitt - White Cliffs of Dover
- Tony Martin - Tonight We Love
- Glenn Miller & His Orch.- White Cliffs of Dover
- Alvino Rey & His Orch. with Yvonne King - I Said No
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle - Everything I Love
- Sammy Kaye - Remember Pearl Harbor
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - I Said No
- J. Lunceford - Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol'me)
- Alvino Rey & His Orch. - Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Moonlight Cocktail
- Dinah Shore - Blues in the Night
- Kate Smith - White Cliffs of Dover
- Kate Smith - Rose O'day (The Filla-ga-dusha Song)
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2. CD
- Harry James & His Orch. - Don't Want to Walk Without You
- Bing Crosby with Woody Herman - Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Cab Calloway & His Orch. - Blues in the Night (My Mama Done
- Horace Heidt - Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - a Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)
- Dinah Shore - Miss You
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Somebody else is Taking My Place
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Jersey Bounce
- Bing Crosby - I Don't Want to Walk Without You
- Russ Morgan & His Orch. - Somebody else is Taking My Place
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - Tangerine
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - Who Wouldn't Love You
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. with Bob Eberly - I Remember You
- Harry James & His Orch. - Sleepy Lagoon
- G. Miller - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyonebutme
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Skylark
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Always in My Heart
- Harry James & His Orch. - One Dozen Roses
- Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter - Miss You
- Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch. - One Dozen Roses
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - Jersey Bounce
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3. CD
- Kay Kyser & - Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland
- Dinah Shore - One Dozen Roses
- Guy Lombardo - Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - Jingle Jangle Jingle
- The Merry Macs - Jingle Jangle Jingle
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - Just As Though You Were Here
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Kalamazoo
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Sweet Eloise
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings
- Harry James & His Orch. - Strictly Instrumental
- Freddie Slack & His Orch. - Cow-cow Boogie
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Take Me
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Idaho
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - My Devotion
- Abe Lyman & His Californians - Amen
- Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka
- Sammy Kaye - I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
- Woody Herman & His Orch. - Amen
- Vaughn Monroe & His Orch. - My Devotion
- Charlie Spivak & His Orch. - My Devotion
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Serenade in Blue
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4. CD
- Charlie Spivak - I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - Take Me
- Alvino Rey & His Orch. - Strip Polka
- Harry James & His Orch. - He's My Guy
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - Strip Polka
- Bing Crosby - White Christmas
- Kay Kyser - Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition
- Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Der Fuehrer's Face
- Andrews Sisters - Strip Polka
- V.monroe - when the Lights Go on Again (All over the World)
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - Daybreak
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. - There Are Such Things
- The Merry Macs - Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition
- Harry James & His Orch. - Mister Five by Five
- Harry James & His Orch. - Manhattan Serenade
- Harry James & His Orch. - I Had the Craziest Dream
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Juke Box Saturday Night
- Freddie Slack & His Orch. - Mister Five by Five
- Mister Five by Five - Dearly Beloved
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Moonlight Becomes You
- Dinah Shore - Dearly Beloved