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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 1945, the fifth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the first year to feature a Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. This great value 94-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart during the year, plus those which entered the Top 10 in the final weeks of the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944, and so are included in our existing 1944 collection. It was another vintage year for Bing Crosby, who had 9 hits during the year, while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six. Johnny Mercer had three No. 1s, one with Jo Stafford, and Doris Day made her chart debut with two No. 1s. Others who featured at No.1 were The Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, Harry James, Sammy Kaye and Freddy Martin, while there were also many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close, celebrated by a number of both sentimental and celebratory hits. It includes a 12,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information.
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola
Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - Don't Fence Me in
Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Georgia Carroll - There Goes That
Kate Smith - Don't Fence Me in
Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson - Cocktails for Two
Frank Sinatra - I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
Perry Como - I Dream of You
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights - Don't Fence Me in
Harry James & His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - I'm Beginning to See
Frank Sinatra - Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
Frankie Carle & His Orchestra with Paul Allen - a Little on the Lonely
Abe Lyman & His Orchestra with Rose Blane - Rum and Coca-Cola
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Rum and Coca-Cola
Jo Stafford, Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Candy
Gertrude Niesen - I Wanna Get Married
Duke Ellington with His Famous Orchestra with Joya Sherrill - I'm Beginning to See the Light
Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Dream
Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - My Dreams Are Getting Better
The Phil Moore Four - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - Sentimental Journey
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - a Little on the Lonely Side
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There! I've Said It Again
Bing Crosby - Just a Prayer Away
Johnny Long & His Orchestra & Dick Robertson - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
Betty Hutton - Stuff Like That There
Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Laura
Dinah Shore - Candy
Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - Just a Prayer Away
Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Red Ingle - Chloe
Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots - I'm Beginning to See the Light
Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Caldonia
Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - Laura
Tony Pastor & His Orchestra with Ruth McCullough - Bell Bottom
Dick Haymes - Laura
Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders - You Belong to
Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - Caldonia
Frank Sinatra - Dream
Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - You Belong to My
Johnnie Johnston - Laura
Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra - Sentimental Journey
Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers
Louis Prima & His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers
Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - Bell Bottom
Merry Macs - Sentimental Journey
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Gotta Be This or That (Pt. 1)
Carmen Cavallaro & His Orchestra - Chopin's Polonaise
Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - on the Atchison Topeka & Santa
Mills Brothers - I Wish
Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Wynonie Harris - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well
Perry Como - If I Loved You
Bing Crosby - on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Jerry Colonna - Bell Bottom Trousers
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra with June Christy - Tampico
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with the Sentimentalists - on the
Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams & Nancy Norman - Good Good Good (That's You-That's You)
Perry Como - Till the End of Time
Perry Como - I'm Gonna Love That Gal
Dick Haymes - I Wish I Knew
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie
Dinah Shore - Along the Navajo Trail
Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - 11:60 PM
Dick Haymes - Till the End of Time
Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters - Along the Navajo Trail
Benny Goodman & His Orchestra with Dottie Reid - It's Only a Paper
Judy Garland and the Merry Macs - on the Atchison Topeka &
Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest - I'll Buy That Dream
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Skeets Herfurt - Hong Kong
Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - I'll Buy That Dream
Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with Irene Daye - It's Been a Long
Bing Crosby with Les Paul & His Trio - It's Been a Long Long Time
Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - It's Been a Long
Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams & Nancy Norman -
Dick Haymes - That's for Me
Stan Kenton & His Orchestra with June Christy - It's Been a Long
Dick Haymes - It Might As Well Be Spring
Jo Stafford - That's for Me
Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallero at the Piano - I Can't Begin to
Peggy Lee - Waitin' for the Train to Come in
Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Holiday for Strings
Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra & Delta Rhythm Boys - the
Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - Waitin' for the
Paul Weston & His Orchestra & Margaret Whiting - It Might As Well
Perry Como - Dig You Later (A-Hubba Hubba Hubba)
Frank Sinatra - Nancy (With the Laughing Face
Freddie Martin & His Orchestra with Clyde Rogers - Symphony
Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Bing Crosby - Symphony
Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It
Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - It Might As Well Be
Andy Russell - I Can't Begin to Tell You
Harry James and His Orchestra with Ruth Haag - I Can't Begin to Tell
Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - Buzz Me
Evelyn Knight & the Jesters - Chickery Chic
