(Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing) VA - Your Hit Parade. 1940-1949 (10 CD) 1989-1991, MP3, 320 kbps

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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Glenn Miller dominated the hit parade in 1940: according to the statistics of chart researcher Joel Whitburn, he was more successful than his next three competitors, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, and Kay Kyser combined. A compilation that really presented the 24 most popular recordings of the year would include...
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Tracklist:
01. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - In the Mood (3:36)
02. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There I Go (2:52)
03. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Darn That Dream (3:02)
04. Bing Crosby - Sierra Sue (3:03)
05. Connee Boswell - On the Isle of May (2:41)
06. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - The Breeze and I (3:03)
07. Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - Down Argentina Way (2:34)
08. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Frenesi (3:08)
09. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Blueberry Hill (2:56)
10. The Ink Spots - Maybe (3:09)
11. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - All the Things You Are (3:22)
12. Bing Crosby - Only Forever (3:10)
13. Will Bradley & His Orchestra - Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar (2:41)
14. The Andrews Sisters - Ferryboat Serenade (3:07)
15. Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra - Body and Soul (3:02)
16. Lillian "Lil" Green - Romance in the Dark (3:27)
17. Tony Martin - It's a Blue World (2:45)
18. The Ink Spots - We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) (3:23)
19. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Pennsylvania 6-5000 (3:19)
20. Bing Crosby - Trade Winds (3:17)
21. Mitchell Ayres & His Fashions in Music - Make Believe Island (3:14)
22. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - I'll Never Smile Again (3:13)
23. Judy Garland - I'm Nobody's Baby (2:55)
24. Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards - When You Wish upon a Star (3:09)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
All of the yearly volumes in Time-Life Music's Your Hit Parade series take liberties, presenting many of the actual hit parade leaders of the year, but also including recordings that were not the biggest hits but are better remembered than those that were, as well as memorable non-hits. The compilers have done more editorializing on the 1941 volume than on most others...
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Tracklist:
01. Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Take the 'A' Train (3:06)
02. Gene Krupa & His Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown (3:07)
03. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Oh! Look at Me Now (3:25)
04. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Green Eyes (3:22)
05. Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra - I Hear a Rhapsody (3:29)
06. Harry James & His Orchestra - You Made Me Love You (3:15)
07. The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (2:46)
08. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Daddy (2:57)
09. Billie Holiday - God Bless the Child (2:56)
10. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Yes, Indeed! (3:40)
11. The Ink Spots - I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire (3:08)
12. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Maria Elena (3:06)
13. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo (3:27)
14. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - There'll Be Some Changes Made (2:49)
15. Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Stardust (3:44)
16. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Racing with the Moon (3:27)
17. The Andrews Sisters - I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time (3:01)
18. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (3:30)
19. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - New San Antonio Rose (2:37)
20. Bing Crosby - Dolores (3:13)
21. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Amapola (3:26)
22. Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - Perfidia (3:00)
23. Glenn Miller - Elmer's Tune (3:16)
24. Kay Kyser - 'Til Reveille (2:38)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Music in 1942 was subject to two major news events: World War II, which the U.S. had entered the previous December, and the recording ban called by the musicians union, which shut down the recording studios on August 1. The first had a major effect on the subjects of popular songs on this collection.
Review
Tracklist:
01. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) (3:12)
02. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (3:12)
03. Kay Kyser and His Orchestra - Who Wouldn't Love You (2:36)
04. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - My Devotion (3:08)
05. Harry James & His Orchestra - Sleepy Lagoon (2:57)
06. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Tangerine (3:11)
07. Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka (2:56)
08. Dinah Shore - Blues in the Night (3:10)
09. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Jersey Bounce (2:55)
10. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Trav'lin Light (3:15)
11. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - (I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo (3:16)
12. Harry James & His Orchestra - I Don't Want to Walk Without You (2:57)
13. Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Jingle Jangle Jingle (3:22)
14. Alvino Ray & His Orchestra - Deep in the Heart of Texas (2:38)
15. Freddie Slack & His Orchestra - Cow-Cow Boogie (3:16)
16. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - A String Of Pearls (3:13)
17. Swing & Sway With Sammy Kaye - I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen (3:15)
18. Kate Smith - (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover (3:07)
19. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Flying Home (3:14)
20. Harry James & His Orchestra - One Dozen Roses (3:03)
21. Bing Crosby - Be Careful It's My Heart (2:45)
22. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Moonlight Cocktail (3:17)
23. Judy Garland & Gene Kelly - For Me & My Gal (2:32)
24. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - There Are Such Things (2:42)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
1943, the second full year of World War II for the U.S., and the first full year of the recording ban called by the musicians union (though Decca Records settled with the union by the fall), was an odd time in American popular music, one in which vintage recordings were re-released for hits and in which new recordings were made a cappella to circumvent the ban....
Review
Tracklist:
01. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Juke Box Saturday Night (3:05)
02. Harry James & His Orchestra - I've Heard That Song Before (3:00)
03. The Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Any More (3:06)
04. Bing Crosby - Sunday, Monday Or Always (2:37)
05. Dinah Shore - You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To (2:55)
06. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Let's Get Lost (3:01)
07. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie (3:10)
08. Fred Astaire - I'm Old Fashioned (2:26)
09. Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (3:23)
10. Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners - You'll Never Know (2:46)
11. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - That Old Black Magic (3:04)
12. Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin - People Will Say We're In Love (2:58)
13. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Why Don't You Do Right (3:14)
14. The Mills Brothers - Paper Doll (2:38)
15. Harry James & His Orchestra - I Had The Craziest Dream (3:25)
16. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - In The Blue Of The Evening (2:56)
17. Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Brazil (2:48)
18. Judy Garland - Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (2:58)
19. Al Dexter and His Troopers - Pistol Packin' Mama (2:48)
20. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Taking a Chance on Love (3:11)
21. Bing Crosby - Moonlight Becomes You (3:12)
22. The Song Spinners - Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer (2:23)
23. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - When the Lights Go on Again (All over the World) (3:04)
24. Arthur "Dooley" Wilson - As Time Goes By (3:00)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
1944 was an unusual year in popular music, not only because the U.S. was at war, along with the rest of world, but also because the musicians union recording ban was still going on, sort of. One of the three major record labels, Decca, had settled with the union in 1943, and its artists were back recording; the other two, Columbia and RCA Victor, would not come to terms until late in the year....
Review
Tracklist:
01. Judy Garland - The Trolley Song (2:54)
02. Bing Crosby - San Fernando Valley (3:16)
03. The Andrews Sisters - Shoo Shoo Baby (2:52)
04. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - G.I. Jive (3:04)
05. Harry James & His Orchestra - I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You) (2:45)
06. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Artistry in Rhythm (3:19)
07. Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) (3:03)
08. Lawrence Welk & His Orchestra - Don't Sweetheart Me (2:48)
09. Helen Forrest - Time Waits for No One (3:17)
10. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Speak Low (When You Speak, Love) (2:49)
11. Jo Stafford - It Could Happen to You (3:07)
12. Bing Crosby - I'll Be Seeing You (2:52)
13. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine (3:09)
14. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? (2:44)
15. Harry James & His Orchestra - Cherry (3:12)
16. Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest - It Had to Be You (3:12)
17. Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - My Heart Tells Me (3:22)
18. The Mills Brothers - You Always Hurt the One You Love (3:24)
19. The Merry Macs - Mairzy Doats (2:44)
20. Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - It's Love, Love, Love (2:30)
21. Nat King Cole - Straighten up and Fly Right (2:27)
22. Bing Crosby - Swinging on a Star (2:32)
23. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (3:20)
24. Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest - Long Ago (And Far Away) (3:27)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
With its 24 tracks drawn from the four major record labels of the day (RCA Victor, Columbia, Decca, and Capitol), Time-Life Music's 1945 edition of its Your Hit Parade series does a typically excellent job of featuring the major hits of the year in their most popular renditions....
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Tracklist:
01. Johnny Mercer - On The Atchison, Topeka and The Sante Fe (3:07)
02. Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - You Belong To My Heart (2:30)
03. The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca-Cola (3:11)
04. Dick Haymes - It Might as Well Be Spring (3:11)
05. Les Brown & His Orchestra - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time (3:19)
06. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There! I've Said It Again (3:12)
07. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Tampico (2:44)
08. Russ Morgan & His Orchestra - There Goes That Song Again (3:05)
09. Harry James & His Orchestra - It's Been a Long, Long Time (3:27)
10. Perry Como - If I Loved You (3:19)
11. Jo Stafford/Johnny Mercer/The Pied Pipers - Candy (3:15)
12. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - A Little on the Lonely Side (3:06)
13. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Gotta Be This or That (3:24)
14. Dick Haymes/Helen Forrest - I'll Buy That Dream (3:02)
15. Bing Crosby - I Can't Begin to Tell You (2:54)
16. Perry Como - Till the End of Time (3:11)
17. Harry James & His Orchestra/Kitty Kallen - I'm Beginning to See the Light (3:17)
18. Johnny Mercer - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (2:49)
19. Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five - Caldonia (2:44)
20. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Laura (3:23)
21. The Pied Pipers - Dream (2:50)
22. Bing Crosby/The Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In (3:08)
23. Les Brown & His Orchestra - Sentimental Journey (3:13)
24. Perry Como - Dig You Later (A Hubba-Hubba-Hubba) (3:04)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Time-Life Music's series of yearly samplers under the Your Hit Parade logo does not, strictly speaking, follow that popularity chart or any other, but it does approximate the year's most successful music. Typically, for 1946, the compilers' choice of 24 tracks includes 18 of the most popular songs of the year, 16 of them in their most popular versions. The first full year after World War II was the last in which big bands dominated: ten of the selections here are credited to orchestra leaders, even though every one features a vocalist....
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Tracklist:
01. Bing Crosby - Sioux City Sue (2:50)
02. Les Brown & His Orchestra - I Got the Sun in the Morning (2:35)
03. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Rumours Are Flying (2:54)
04. Kay Kyser - Ole Buttermilk Sky (2:59)
05. Dinah Shore - You Keep Coming Back Like a Song (2:26)
06. Perry Como - Prisoner of Love (3:30)
07. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming) (2:45)
08. Johnny Mercer - Personality (2:50)
09. Peggy Lee - I Don't Know Enough About You (3:22)
10. Freddy Martin - Doin' What Comes Natur'lly (3:16)
11. Frankie Carle & His Orchestra - Oh! What It Seemed to Be (3:00)
12. The Ink Spots - To Each His Own (3:15)
13. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy (2:38)
14. Perry Como - Surrender (3:16)
15. Bing Crosby/The Andrews Sisters - South America, Take It Away! (3:11)
16. Dinah Shore - Laughing on the Outside (Crying on the Inside) (3:11)
17. Sammy Kaye - I'm a Big Girl Now (3:11)
18. Freddy Martin - Symphony (3:17)
19. Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (3:06)
20. The Ink Spots - The Gypsy (2:49)
21. Margaret Whiting - Come Rain or Come Shine (3:01)
22. Perry Como - They Say It's Wonderful (2:36)
23. Les Brown & His Orchestra - The Whole World Is Singing My Song (3:17)
24. Sammy Kaye - The Old Lamplighter (3:02)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Time-Life Music's Your Hit Parade series of albums, each of them devoted to a single year in popular music of the 1940s and '50s, is the most thorough examination of the hits of those decades.... It's hard to say which of these have turned out to be the more influential or enduring, but the result is that, like the series' other volumes, Your Hit Parade: 1947 is a compilation containing most of the year's biggest hits, plus some recordings that the compilers liked better than the others.
Review
Tracklist:
01. Count Basie Orchestra - Open the Door, Richard (2:44)
02. Tex Beneke and The Glenn Miller Orchestra - A Gal in Calico (2:51)
03. Ray Noble & His Orchestra - Linda (3:20)
04. Claude Thornhill & His Orchesta - A Sunday Kind of Love (3:28)
05. Al Jolson - Anniversary Song (3:08)
06. Perry Como - Chi-Baba Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep) (3:02)
07. Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (2:56)
08. Dorothy Shay - Feudin' and Fightin' (3:23)
09. Frankie Laine - That's My Desire (2:49)
10. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - I Wish I Didn't Love You So (2:49)
11. Art Lund - Mam'selle (3:17)
12. Ted Weems & His Orchestra - Heartaches (2:43)
13. Danny Kaye and The Andrews Sisters - Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) (3:06)
14. Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - Managua, Nicaragua (2:53)
15. Sam Donahue & His Orchestra - I Never Knew (2:56)
16. The Mills Brothers - Across the Alley from the Alamo (2:32)
17. Buddy Clark - Peg O' My Heart (3:25)
18. Margaret Whiting - Guilty (3:13)
19. Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Near You (2:53)
20. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Ballerina (3:27)
21. Perry Como - When You Were Sweet Sixteen (3:16)
22. Dinah Shore - You Do (2:46)
23. Eddy Howard & His Orchestra - I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder (3:03)
24. Hoagy Carmichael - Huggin' and Chalkin' (2:38)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
The musical trends of 1948 included the continuing transition from big bands to individual singers, as well as the increasing popularity of lighthearted novelties, often set to arrangements based on diverse musical genres. This excellent compilation, which presents, among its 24 selections, 19 of the year's biggest hits in their most popular recordings, illustrates those trends....
Review
Tracklist:
01. Peggy Lee - Maсana (Is Soon Enough for Me) (2:58)
02. Kay Kyser and His Orchestra, Harry Babbit, Gloria Wood - On a Slow Boat to China (3:21)
03. Perry Como - Because (2:51)
04. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Sabre Dance (2:37)
05. The Ink Spots - You Were Only Fooling (While I Was Falling in Love) (2:54)
06. Gordon Jenkins - Maybe You'll Be There (3:16)
07. Buddy Clark/Doris Day - Love Somebody (3:02)
08. Francis Craig & His Orchestra - Beg Your Pardon (2:56)
09. Dick Haymes/Gordon Jenkins - Little White Lies (3:15)
10. Margaret Whiting - A Tree in the Meadow (2:40)
11. Art Mooney & His Orchestra - I'm Looking over a Four Leaf Clover (2:25)
12. Nat King Cole - Nature Boy (2:42)
13. Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra - Twelfth Street Rag (2:52)
14. Ray Noble & His Orchestra - I'll Dance at Your Wedding (3:12)
15. Peggy Lee - Golden Earrings (3:02)
16. Sammy Kaye - Serenade of the Bells (3:11)
17. Ken Griffin - You Can't Be True, Dear (2:44)
18. Dinah Shore - Buttons and Bows (2:04)
19. Gordon MacRae/The Starlighters - Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue (2:23)
20. The Andrews Sisters - Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka) (2:52)
21. Art Mooney & His Orchestra - Baby Face (2:20)
22. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Until (3:09)
23. Doris Day - It's Magic (3:26)
24. Bing Crosby - Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) (3:09)
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Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous | Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Judging by the charts, this selection contains 21 of the 24 most successful songs of the year. 1949 was a period of rampant cover versions, and in a couple of cases the compilers have not chosen the most popular recording of a song, but every included version was a substantial hit....
Review
Tracklist:
01. Frankie Laine - Mule Train (2:39)
02. Mel Torme - Careless Hands (3:16)
03. Doris Day - Again (2:50)
04. Sammy Kaye - Room Full of Roses (3:23)
05. Johnny Mercer and Margaret Whiting - Baby, It's Cold Outside (2:52)
06. Perry Como - Some Enchanted Evening (3:29)
07. Evelyn Knight and The Stardusters - A Little Bird Told Me (2:39)
08. Russ Morgan - Forever and Ever (2:52)
09. Bing Crosby - Galway Bay (3:04)
10. Gordon MacRae and Jo Stafford - My Darling, My Darling (2:35)
11. Gordon Jenkins - Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) (3:14)
12. Vaughn Monroe - Riders in the Sky (3:02)
13. Les Brown - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (2:57)
14. Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting - Slipping Around (2:13)
15. Perry Como - Bali Ha'i (3:39)
16. Frankie Laine - That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day) (2:56)
17. Dick Haymes - Maybe It's Because (3:21)
18. Russ Morgan - So Tired (3:22)
19. Sammy Kaye - Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) (3:01)
20. Evelyn Knight and The Stardusters - Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!) (2:15)
21. Vaughn Monroe - Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) (3:08)
22. Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters - "A" You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song) (2:26)
23. Blue Barron - Cruising Down the River (2:54)
24. Margaret Whiting - Far Away Places (3:15)
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