Various Artists: America's Greatest Hits 1942 / Various - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: America's Greatest Hits 1942 / Various - COMPACT DISCSTitle: America's Greatest Hits 1942 Various Artist: Various Artists Label: Acrobat Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 824046710828 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2017 03 10 Number of Discs: 4 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

Title: America's Greatest Hits 1942 / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Acrobat
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 824046710828
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-03-10
Number of Discs: 4

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

Tracks:
1.1 Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Tex Beneke ; the Modernaires
1.2 Elmer's Tune - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Ray Eberle ; the Modernaires
1.3 Piano Concerto in B-Flat Major - Freddy Martin ; His Orchestra
1.4 This Love of Mine - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra
1.5 Shepherd Serenade - Bing Crosby
1.6 You Made Me Love You - Harry James and His Orchestra
1.7 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Woody Herman
1.8 This Is No Laughing Matter - Charlie Spivak ; His Orchestra with Garry Stevens ; the Stardusters
1.9 A String of Pearls - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra
1.10 White Cliffs of Dover - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt ; Glee Club
1.11 Tonight We Love - Tony Martin
1.12 White Cliffs of Dover - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
1.13 I Said No - Alvino Rey ; His Orchestra with Yvonne King
1.14 Everything I Love - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
1.15 Remember Pearl Harbor - Sammy Kaye
1.16 I Said No - Jimmy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Bob Eberly ; Helen O'Connell
1.17 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) [Part One] - Jimmie Lunceford ; His Orchestra
1.18 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Alvino Rey ; His Orchestra with Bill Schallen ; Skeets Herfurt
1.19 Moonlight Cocktail - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Ray Eberle ; the Modernaires
1.20 Blues in the Night - Dinah Shore
1.21 White Cliffs of Dover - Kate Smith
1.22 Rose O'Day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha Song) - Kate Smith
2.1 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
2.2 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Bing Crosby with Woody Herman's Woodchoppers
2.3 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Cab Calloway ; His Orchestra
2.4 Deep in the Heart of Texas - Horace Heidt ; His Musical Knights
2.5 A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal) - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra
2.6 Miss You - Dinah Shore
2.7 Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra/Peggy Lee
2.8 Jersey Bounce - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
2.9 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter ; His Orchestra
2.10 Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Russ Morgan and His Orchestra
2.11 Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Bob Eberly ; Helen O'Connell
2.12 Who Wouldn't Love You - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt ; Trudy Erwin
2.13 I Remember You - Jimmy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Bob Eberly
2.14 Sleepy Lagoon - Harry James and His Orchestra
2.15 Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Marion Hutton/Tex Beneke ; the Modernaires
2.16 Skylark - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
2.17 Always in My Heart - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Ray Eberle
2.18 One Dozen Roses - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders
2.19 Miss You - Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter ; His Orchestra
2.20 One Dozen Roses - Glen Gray ; the Casa Loma Orchestra with Pee Wee Hunt
2.21 Jersey Bounce - Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
3.1 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra
3.2 One Dozen Roses - Dinah Shore
3.3 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland - Guy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians with Kenny Gardner
3.4 Jingle Jangle Jingle - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra with Harry Babbitt ; Julie Conway
3.5 Jingle Jangle Jingle - the Merry Macs
3.6 Just As Though You Were Here - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra ; the Pied Pipers
3.7 Kalamazoo - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra
3.8 Sweet Eloise - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Ray Eberle ; the Modernaires
3.9 He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra
3.10 Strictly Instrumental - Harry James and His Orchestra
3.11 Cow-Cow Boogie - Freddie Slack and His Orchestra ; Ella Mae Morse
3.12 Take Me - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
3.13 Idaho - Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
3.14 My Devotion - Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
3.15 Amen - Abe Lyman and His California Orchestra
3.16 Strip Polka - Johnny Mercer
3.17 I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Sammy Kaye and His Orchestra
3.18 Amen - Woody Herman ; His Orchestra
3.19 My Devotion - Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
3.20 My Devotion - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
3.21 Serenade in Blue - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Tex Beneke ; the Modernaires
4.1 I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
4.2 Take Me - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra
4.3 Strip Polka - Alvino Rey ; His Orchestra with the Four King Sisters
4.4 He's My Guy - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
4.5 Strip Polka - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra with Jack Martin
4.6 White Christmas - Bing Crosby
4.7 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser ; His Orchestra
4.8 Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones ; His City Slickers with Carl Grayson
4.9 Strip Polka - the Andrews Sisters
4.10 When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World) - Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra
4.11 Daybreak - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra ; the Pied Pipers
4.12 There Are Such Things - Tommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra ; the Pied Pipers
4.13 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - the Merry Macs
4.14 Mister Five By Five - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
4.15 Manhattan Serenade - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
4.16 I Had the Craziest Dream - Harry James ; His Orchestra with Helen Forrest
4.17 Juke Box Saturday Night - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra/Marion Hutton/Tex Beneke ; the Modernaires
4.18 Mister Five By Five - Freddie Slack and His Orchestra ; Ella Mae Morse
4.19 Dearly Beloved - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Skip Nelson
4.20 Moonlight Becomes You - Glenn Miller ; His Orchestra with Skip Nelson ; the Modernaires
4.21 Dearly Beloved - Dinah Shore