Episode 194, “1940s #1 Hits,” presents 17 million-selling popular songs from 1940 through 1949 by performers ranging from Mel Torme and Nat King Cole to The Andrews Sisters & The Ink Spots to Cab Calloway, Jimmy Dorsey, Billie Holliday, and Dinah Shore.
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45 RPM, Music of the 40s and 50s | |
Episode 194 | 1940s #1 Hits Ala Carte |
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Where Was I? | Charlie Barnett & Mary Ann McCall |
We Three | The Ink Spots |
I Hear a Rhapsody | Dinah Shore |
Chattanooga Choo Choo | The Andrews Sisters |
Blues in the Night | Cab Calloway & the Palmer Brothers |
That Old Black Magic | Margaret Whiting |
I’ve Heard That Song Before | Harry James and his Orchestra & Helen Forrest |
I’ll Be Seeing You | Bing Crosby with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra |
Heartaches | Ted Weems and his Orchestra |
Lover Man Where Can You Be | Billie Holliday |
On the Acheson Topeka and the Santa Fe | Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers |
To Each His Own | Eddie Howard and his Orchestra |
Almost Like Being in Love | Jo Stafford |
Green Eyes | Jimmy Dorsey and orchestra with Bob Eberle and Helen O’Connell. |
Teresa | Dick Haymes & The Andrews Sisters |
Nature Boy | Nat King Cole |
Careless Hands | Mel Torme |
Green Eyes | Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra |