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
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Tex Beneke & The Four Modernaires - Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires - Elmer's Tune
- Freddy Martin & His Orch. - Piano Concerto In B Flat
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. with Frank Sinatra - This Love Of Mine
- Bing Crosby - Shepherd Serenade
- Harry James & His Orch. - You Made Me Love You
- Woody Herman - Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me)
- Charlie Spivak & His Orch. with Garry Stevens & The Stardusters - This Is No Laughing Matter
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - A String Of Pearls
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. with Harry Babbitt & Glee Club - White Cliffs Of Dover
- Tony Martin - Tonight We Love
- Alvino Rey & His Orch. with Yvonne King - I Said No
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle - Everything I Love
- Sammy Kaye - Remember Pearl Harbor
- Jimmie Lunceford & His Orch. - Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) (Part One)
- Alvino Rey & His Orch. with Bill Schallen & Skeets Herfurt - Deep In The Heart Of Texas
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires - Moonlight Cocktail
- Dinah Shore - Blues In The Night
- Kate Smith - Rose O'Day (The Filla-ga-dusha Song)
Disc 2:
- Harry James & His Orch. with Helen Forrest - I Don't Want To Walk Without You
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday Gal)
- Dinah Shore - Miss You
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. with Peggy Lee - Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Jersey Bounce
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. with Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell - Tangerine
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. with Harry Babbitt & Trudy Erwin - Who Wouldn't Love You
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. with Bob Eberly - I Remember You
- Harry James & His Orch. - Sleepy Lagoon
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke & The Modernaires - Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle - Skylark
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle - Always In My Heart
- Harry James & His Orch. with Jimmy Saunders - One Dozen Roses
Disc 3:
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - Johnny Doughboy Found A Rose In Ireland
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. with Harry Babbitt & Julie Conway - Jingle Jangle Jingle
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers - Just As Though You Were Here
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. - Kalamazoo
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires - Sweet Eloise
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings
- Harry James & His Orch. - Strictly Instrumental
- Freddie Slack & His Orch. with Ella Mae Morse - Cow-Cow Boogie
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Take Me
- Benny Goodman & His Orch. - Idaho
- Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - My Devotion
- Abe Lyman & His Californians - Amen
- Johnny Mercer - Strip Polka
- Sammy Kaye & His Orch. - I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Ray Eberle & The Modernaires - Serenade In Blue
Disc 4:
- Charlie Spivak & His Orch. - Â I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
- Harry James & His Orch. with Helen Forrest - He's My Guy
- Bing Crosby - White Christmas
- Kay Kyser & His Orch. - Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition
- Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson - Der Fuehrer's Face
- Vaughn Monroe & His Orch. - When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers - Daybreak
- Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers - There Are Such Things
- Harry James & His Orch. with Helen Forrest - Mister Five By Five
- Harry James & His Orch. with Helen Forrest - Manhattan Serenade
- Harry James & His Orch. with Helen Forrest - I Had The Craziest Dream
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke & The Modernaires - Juke Box Saturday Night
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Skip Nelson - Dearly Beloved
- Glenn Miller & His Orch. with Skip Nelson & The Modernaires - Moonlight Becomes You
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