A Salute to the Golden Age of American Popular Music

We salute the music from Broadway, Hollywood, New Orleans, Tin Pan Alley and the "melody makers;" i.e. the bands and singers that brought the music to us via the radio, recordings and live events in the period from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is the golden period of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, etc.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

The top 24 songs of 1940

Here is a list of the top 24 songs of 1940;

01 – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra – In the Mood.
02 – Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra – There I Go.
03 – Mildred Bailey & Benny Goodman & His Orchestra – Darn That Dream.
04 – Bing Crosby – Sierra Sue.
05 – Connee Boswell – On The Isle Of May
06 – Bob Eberly & Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra – The Breeze And I.
07 – Bonnie King & Bob Crosby & His Orchestra – Down Argentina Way.
08 – Artie Shaw & His Orchestra – Frenesi.
09 – Ray Eberle & Glenn Miller & His Orchestra -Blueberry Hill.
10 – The Ink Spots – Maybe.
11 – Jack Leonard & Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra -All The Things You Are.
12 – Bing Crosby – Only Forever.
13 – Ray McKinely & Bill Bradley & His Orchestra – Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar).
14 – The Andrews Sisters – Ferryboat Serenade (La Piccinina).
15 – Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra – Body And Soul.
16 – Lil Green – Romance In the Dark.
17 – Tony Martin – It’s A Blue World.
18 – The Ink Spots – We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me).
19 – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra – Pennsylvania 6-5000.
20 – Bing Crosby – Trade Winds.
21 – Mary Ann Mercer & Mithcell Ayres & His Fashions in Music – Make-Believe Island.
22 – Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers & Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra – I’ll Never Smile Again.
23 – Judy Garland – I’m Nobody’s Baby.
24 - Cliff Edwards, Backup Vocals by the Ken Darby Singers – When You Wish Upon A Star.

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