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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
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Tex Beneke & the Modernaires
2 Elmer's Tune - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Ray Eberle & the Modernaires
3 Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major - Freddy Martin & His Orchestra
4 This Love of Mine - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra
5 Shepherd Serenade - Bing Crosby
6 You Made Me Love You - Harry James and His Orchestra
7 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Woody Herman
8 This Is No Laughing Matter - Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with Garry Stevens & the Stardusters
9 A String of Pearls - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
10 White Cliffs of Dover - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt & Glee Club
11 Tonight We Love - Tony Martin
12 White Cliffs of Dover - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
13 I Said No - Alvino Rey & His Orchestra with Yvonne King
14 Everything I Love - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
15 Remember Pearl Harbor - Sammy Kaye
16 I Said No - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell
17 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) [Part One] - Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
18 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Alvino Rey & His Orchestra with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt
19 Moonlight Cocktail - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Ray Eberle & the Modernaires
20 Blues in the Night - Dinah Shore
21 White Cliffs of Dover - Kate Smith
22 Rose O'Day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha Song) - Kate Smith
- Disc 2 -
1 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
2 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Bing Crosby with Woody Herman's Woodchoppers
3 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra
4 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights
5 A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
6 Miss You - Dinah Shore
7 Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra/Peggy Lee
8 Jersey Bounce - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
9 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra
10 Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
11 Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell
12 Who Wouldn't Love You - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt & Trudy Erwin
13 I Remember You - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Bob Eberly
14 Sleepy Lagoon - Harry James and His Orchestra
15 Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Marion Hutton/Tex Beneke & the Modernaires
16 Skylark - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
17 Always in My Heart - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
18 One Dozen Roses - Harry James & His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders
19 Miss You - Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & His Orchestra
20 One Dozen Roses - Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orchestra with Pee Wee Hunt
21 Jersey Bounce - Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
- Disc 3 -
1 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
2 One Dozen Roses - Dinah Shore
3 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Kenny Gardner
4 Jingle Jangle Jingle - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway
5 Jingle Jangle Jingle - the Merry Macs
6 Just As Though You Were Here - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers
7 Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
8 Sweet Eloise - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Ray Eberle & the Modernaires
9 He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
10 Strictly Instrumental - Harry James and His Orchestra
11 Cow-Cow Boogie - Freddie Slack and His Orchestra & Ella Mae Morse
12 Take Me - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
13 Idaho - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
14 My Devotion - Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
15 Amen - Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra
16 Strip Polka - Johnny Mercer
17 I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
18 Amen - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
19 My Devotion - Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
20 My Devotion - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
21 Serenade in Blue - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Tex Beneke & the Modernaires
- Disc 4 -
1 I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
2 Take Me - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra
3 Strip Polka - Alvino Rey & His Orchestra with the Four King Sisters
4 He's My Guy - Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
5 Strip Polka - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Jack Martin
6 White Christmas - Bing Crosby
7 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
8 Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson
9 Strip Polka - the Andrews Sisters
10 When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World) - Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
11 Daybreak - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers
12 There Are Such Things - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers
13 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - the Merry Macs
14 Mister Five By Five - Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
15 Manhattan Serenade - Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
16 I Had the Craziest Dream - Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
17 Juke Box Saturday Night - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra/Marion Hutton/Tex Beneke & the Modernaires
18 Mister Five By Five - Freddie Slack and His Orchestra & Ella Mae Morse
19 Dearly Beloved - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Skip Nelson
20 Moonlight Becomes You - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with Skip Nelson & the Modernaires
21 Dearly Beloved - Dinah Shore
