Songs from the Year 1945

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This page lists the top songs of 1945 in the source charts. The way that the various charts are combined to reach this final list is described on the in the site generation page. There is also a set of monthly tables showing the various number ones on any date during 1945.

Between 1920 and 1940 there are few available charts (at least that we can find). These results should be treated with some caution since, with few exceptions, they are based on fairly subjective charts and biased towards the USA.

During this era music was dominated by a number of "Big Bands" and songs could be attributed to the band leader, the band name, the lead singer or a combination of the them. It is common, for example, to see the same song listed with three different artists. And, just to stop us from getting bored, the success of a song was tied to the sales of sheet music, so a popular song would often be perfomed by many different combinations of singers and bands and the contemporary charts would list the song, without clarifying whose version was the major hit. Where we have found such issues we have attempted to consolidate the entries using the most widely accepted value for the artist in each case.

The top ten song artists of 1945 were:
1:Perry Como	3:Harry James	5:Les Brown & Doris Day	7:Bing Crosby	9:Sammy Kaye
2:Frank Sinatra	4:Johnny Mercer	6:The Andrews Sisters	8:Dick Haymes	10:Les Brown

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Les Brown & Doris Day	Sentimental Journey	1945	US Billboard 1 - Mar 1945 (28 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Apr 1945 (23 weeks), US 1 for 9 weeks - May 1945, US invalid BB 1 of 1945, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1945), POP 1 of 1945, DZE 3 of 1945, DDD 7 of 1945, nuTsie 12 of 1940s, Music Imprint 13 of 1940s, Your Hit Parade 23 of 1945, Europe 37 of the 1940s (1945), Brazil 44 of 1945, Australian Nostalgia 60 of 1940-1949, RIAA 77, Acclaimed 818 (1944), RYM 69 of 1945, Song of 1944
2	The Andrews Sisters	Rum & Coca-Cola	1945	US Billboard 1 - Jan 1945 (20 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Jan 1945 (16 weeks), US 1 for 7 weeks - Feb 1945, Australia 1 for 2 months - Feb 1946, DZE 1 of 1945, US invalid BB 2 of 1945, POP 2 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 3 of 1945, DDD 4 of 1944, Europe 6 of the 1940s (1944), Brazil 19 of 1945, Australian Nostalgia 25 of 1940-1949, nuTsie 51 of 1940s, RYM 3 of 1944
3	Perry Como	Till The End of Time	1945	US Billboard 1 - Aug 1945 (19 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Aug 1945 (17 weeks), US 1 for 9 weeks - Sep 1945, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1945), DZE 2 of 1945, US invalid BB 12 of 1945, DDD 13 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 16 of 1945, POP 23 of 1945, nuTsie 25 of 1940s, Europe 30 of the 1940s (1945), Brazil 87 of 1946, RYM 85 of 1945
4	Johnny Mercer	On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe	1945	US Billboard 1 - Jul 1945 (19 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Jul 1945 (16 weeks), US 1 for 7 weeks - Jul 1945, Your Hit Parade 1 of 1945, US invalid BB 4 of 1945, DDD 4 of 1945, DZE 4 of 1945, POP 11 of 1945, Brazil 58 of 1945, nuTsie 90 of 1940s, RYM 89 of 1945
5	Bing Crosby & Les Paul	It's Been a Long, Long Time	1945	US Billboard 1 - Oct 1945 (16 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Oct 1945 (12 weeks), US 1 for 1 week - Dec 1945, UK Sheet Music 1 for 2 weeks - Jan 1946, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Dec 1945 (18 weeks), US invalid BB 9 of 1945, DDD 15 of 1945, POP 17 of 1945
6	Les Brown	My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time	1945	US Billboard 1 - Mar 1945 (16 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Mar 1945 (12 weeks), US 1 for 7 weeks - Apr 1945, Australia 1 for 1 month - Jan 1946, Your Hit Parade 5 of 1945, DZE 5 of 1945, US invalid BB 7 of 1945, POP 13 of 1945, DDD 21 of 1945, RYM 70 of 1945
7	Vaughn Monroe	There! I've Said it Again	1945	US Billboard 1 - Mar 1945 (29 weeks), US 1940s 2 - Apr 1945 (20 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 2 - Sep 1945 (15 weeks), Your Hit Parade 6 of 1945, US invalid BB 6 of 1945, DZE 7 of 1945, DDD 8 of 1945, POP 9 of 1945, Europe 46 of the 1940s (1945), nuTsie 76 of 1940s, Song of 1944
8	Harry James	It's Been a Long, Long Time	1945	US Billboard 1 - Oct 1945 (17 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Oct 1945 (14 weeks), US 1 for 3 weeks - Nov 1945, Your Hit Parade 9 of 1945, DZE 9 of 1945, DDD 15 of 1945, POP 17 of 1945, Brazil 47 of 1946, Europe 47 of the 1940s (1945)
9	Johnny Mercer	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive	1945	US Billboard 1 - Jan 1945 (16 weeks), Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1945), Library of Congress artifact added 2014 (1944), US 1940s 2 - Jan 1945 (13 weeks), POP 6 of 1945, DDD 7 of 1944, DZE 10 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 18 of 1945, Brazil 79 of 1945, RYM 22 of 1945
10	Bing Crosby & Carmen Cavallaro	I Can't Begin to Tell You	1945	US Billboard 1 - Nov 1945 (20 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Nov 1945 (19 weeks), US 1 for 1 week - Jan 1946, DZE 6 of 1945, US invalid BB 10 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 15 of 1945, DDD 18 of 1945, POP 19 of 1945, Brazil 63 of 1946
11	Louis Jordan	Caldonia Boogie (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard)	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1945), DDD 1 of 1945, Library of Congress artifact added 2013 (1945), US Billboard 6 - May 1945 (8 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Jun 1945 (6 weeks), POP 8 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 19 of 1945, Scrobulate 64 of swing, Acclaimed 934 (1945), RYM 1 of 1945, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
12	Sammy Kaye	Chickery Chick	1945	US Billboard 1 - Oct 1945 (16 weeks), US 1940s 1 - Oct 1945 (13 weeks), US 1 for 3 weeks - Nov 1945, US invalid BB 8 of 1945, DZE 8 of 1945, POP 12 of 1945, DDD 16 of 1945, Brazil 73 of 1946
13	Johnny Mercer & Jo Stafford	Candy	1945	US Billboard 1 - Feb 1945 (18 weeks), US 1940s 2 - Mar 1945 (15 weeks), DDD 6 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 11 of 1945, US invalid BB 11 of 1945, POP 14 of 1945, Brazil 73 of 1945, Japan (Tokyo) 94 - Mar 1992 (1 week), RYM 80 of 1945
14	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive	1945	US Billboard 2 - Feb 1945 (9 weeks), US 1940s 2 - Feb 1945 (9 weeks), Oscar in 1945 (film 'Here Come the Waves') (Nominated), Peel list 3 of 1944, UK 40s Sheet Music 5 - Apr 1945 (4 weeks), nuTsie 35 of 1940s, DDD 39 of 1945
15	Harry James	I'm Beginning to See The Light	1945	US Billboard 1 - Jan 1945 (19 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Feb 1945 (13 weeks), US invalid BB 5 of 1945, POP 5 of 1945, DDD 15 of 1944, Your Hit Parade 17 of 1945, Brazil 67 of 1945, Song of 1944
16	Bing Crosby	On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe	1945	Australia 1 for 2 months - Aug 1946, US Billboard 3 - Jul 1945 (15 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Jul 1945 (10 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 4 - Apr 1946 (15 weeks), DDD 4 of 1945, Australian Nostalgia 27 of 1940-1949
17	Dinah Shore	Along the Navajo Trail	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 1 week - May 1946, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Apr 1946 (17 weeks), US Billboard 7 - Sep 1945 (2 weeks), US 1940s 8 - Sep 1945 (1 week), DDD 35 of 1945
18	Dick Haymes	It Might as Well Be Spring	1945	Oscar in 1945 (film 'State Fair'), UK 40s Sheet Music 4 - Feb 1946 (16 weeks), Your Hit Parade 4 of 1945, US Billboard 5 - Nov 1945 (12 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Nov 1945 (12 weeks), DDD 20 of 1945
19	Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes	I'll Buy That Dream	1945	US Billboard 2 - Sep 1945 (13 weeks), US 1940s 2 - Oct 1945 (11 weeks), Oscar in 1945 (film 'Sing Your Way Home') (Nominated), UK 40s Sheet Music 3 - Mar 1946 (17 weeks), Your Hit Parade 14 of 1945, DDD 19 of 1945
20	Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots	I'm Beginning to See The Light	1945	Australia 1 for 1 month - Jul 1946, US Billboard 5 - Apr 1945 (6 weeks), US 1940s 7 - May 1945 (2 weeks), DDD 14 of 1945, Brazil 51 of 1946
21	Billie Holiday	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989 (1945), Jazz Standard 7, DDD 12 of 1945, US Billboard 16 - May 1945 (1 week), nuTsie 26 of 1940s, WXPN 674, Acclaimed 2033 (1945), RYM 2 of 1945
22	Spike Jones	Cocktails For Two	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995 (1945), US Billboard 4 - Jan 1945 (8 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Jan 1945 (8 weeks), DDD 69 of 1945, Europe 81 of the 1940s (1945), RYM 5 of 1945, Song of 1944
23	The Pied Pipers	Dream	1945	US Billboard 1 - Mar 1945 (18 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Mar 1945 (15 weeks), US invalid BB 13 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 21 of 1945, POP 25 of 1945, Europe 83 of the 1940s (1945)
24	Judy Garland	On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe	1945	Australia 1 for 2 months - Aug 1946, Oscar in 1946 (film 'The Harvey Girls'), US Billboard 10 - Oct 1945 (1 week), US 1940s 10 - Sep 1945 (1 week)
25	Duke Ellington	I'm Beginning to See The Light	1945	Australia 1 for 1 month - Jul 1946, US Billboard 6 - Feb 1945 (12 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Mar 1945 (6 weeks), Brazil 99 of 1945, RYM 45 of 1945
26	Frank Sinatra	Nancy, With The Laughing Face	1945	Peel list 1 of 1945, US Billboard 10 - Dec 1945 (2 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 12 - Feb 1946 (12 weeks), Europe 61 of the 1940s (1945), RYM 44 of 1945
27	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Along the Navajo Trail	1945	UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Apr 1946 (17 weeks), US Billboard 2 - Sep 1945 (11 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Sep 1945 (4 weeks), DDD 35 of 1945
28	Woody Herman	Laura	1945	US Billboard 4 - Apr 1945 (12 weeks), US 1940s 7 - Apr 1945 (4 weeks), POP 16 of 1945, Your Hit Parade 20 of 1945, DDD 23 of 1945, Brazil 27 of 1945
29	Dick Haymes	Love Letters	1945	Oscar in 1945 (film 'Love Letters') (Nominated), US Billboard 11 - Sep 1945 (1 week), UK 40s Sheet Music 15 - Dec 1945 (4 weeks), DDD 52 of 1945, Brazil 85 of 1946
30	Perry Como	If I Loved You	1945	US Billboard 3 - Jul 1945 (13 weeks), US 1940s 3 - Jul 1945 (12 weeks), Your Hit Parade 10 of 1945, Europe 35 of the 1940s (1945), DDD 82 of 1945
31	Bing Crosby	You Belong To My Heart	1945	Your Hit Parade 2 of 1945, US Billboard 3 - Jun 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Jun 1945 (9 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 11 - Jul 1945 (2 weeks)
32	Dorothy Squires	The Gypsy	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 2 weeks - Sep 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Aug 1945 (19 weeks)
33	Harry Leader & his band	If You Ever Go To Ireland	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 4 weeks - Jan 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Jan 1945 (12 weeks)
34	The Squadronaires	A Little On The Lonely Side	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 1 week - Jul 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Apr 1945 (10 weeks)
35	Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra	The Happiest New Year Of All	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 1 week - Jan 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Jan 1945 (3 weeks)
36	Joe Loss Orchestra	Just a Little Fond Affection	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 2 weeks - Apr 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Feb 1945 (8 weeks)
37	Harry Leader & his band	Coming Home	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 2 weeks - Jul 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Jul 1945 (20 weeks)
38	Teddy Foster & his Band	I'm In Love With Two Sweerhearts	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 12 weeks - Oct 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Oct 1945 (23 weeks)
39	Geraldo & his Orchestra	Let Him Go Let Him Tarry	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 1 week - Aug 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - Aug 1945 (12 weeks)
40	Joe Loss Orchestra	My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time	1945	UK Sheet Music 1 for 5 weeks - May 1945, UK 40s Sheet Music 1 - May 1945 (12 weeks)
41	Woody Herman	Caldonia Boogie (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard)	1945	DDD 1 of 1945, US Billboard 2 - May 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 6 - May 1945 (6 weeks)
42	Benny Goodman	Symphony	1945	US Billboard 2 - Dec 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Jan 1946 (10 weeks), DDD 40 of 1945, Europe 88 of the 1940s (1946)
43	Benny Goodman	Gotta Be This Or That	1945	US Billboard 2 - Jun 1945 (17 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Jul 1945 (16 weeks), Your Hit Parade 13 of 1945, DDD 42 of 1945, RYM 35 of 1945
44	Carmen Cavallaro	Till The End of Time	1945	US Billboard 3 - Jun 1945 (19 weeks), US 1940s 3 - Jun 1945 (19 weeks), DDD 50 of 1945, Europe 87 of the 1940s (1945)
45	Frank Sinatra	The House I Live In	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1946), US Billboard 22 - Jan 1946 (1 week), DDD 51 of 1945, RYM 4 of 1945
46	Stan Kenton	Tampico	1945	US Billboard 3 - Jul 1945 (15 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Aug 1945 (13 weeks), Your Hit Parade 7 of 1945, DDD 30 of 1945
47	Bing Crosby	A Friend of Yours	1945	Australia 1 for 2 months - May 1946, Australian Nostalgia 26 of 1940-1949, RYM 82 of 1945
48	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000 (1945), DDD 26 of 1945, Acclaimed 1920 (1945), RYM 9 of 1945
49	Perry Como	Dig You Later (A-hubba Hubba Hubba)	1945	US Billboard 3 - Dec 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 3 - Dec 1945 (15 weeks), Your Hit Parade 24 of 1945, DDD 43 of 1945
50	Frank Sinatra	Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)	1945	US Billboard 5 - Jun 1945 (7 weeks), US 1940s 7 - Jun 1945 (2 weeks), Italy 34 of 1956, DDD 36 of 1945
51	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	Strange Things Happening Every Day	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2014 (1945), DDD 17 of 1945, RYM 48 of 1945, Guardian Folk/ World 16
52	Lucky Millinder	Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well	1945	US Billboard 7 - Jun 1945 (10 weeks), DDD 9 of 1945, US 1940s 10 - Jul 1945 (1 week), POP 20 of 1945, RYM 28 of 1944
53	Dick Thomas	Sioux City Sue	1945	US Country 1 for 1 week - Nov 1945, US Billboard 16 - Dec 1945 (1 week), DDD 32 of 1945
54	Tony Pastor & his Orchestra	Bell Bottom Trousers	1945	US Billboard 2 - May 1945 (15 weeks), US 1940s 2 - May 1945 (15 weeks), DDD 28 of 1945
55	Joe Liggins	The Honeydripper (Parts 1 & 2)	1945	DDD 2 of 1945, POP 4 of 1945, US Billboard 13 - Oct 1945 (3 weeks), RYM 13 of 1945
56	Charlie Parker	Ko Ko	1945	Library of Congress artifact added 2002 (1945), DDD 28 of 1946, Guardian Jazz 18
57	Dick Haymes	Till The End of Time	1945	US Billboard 3 - Sep 1945 (9 weeks), US 1940s 3 - Sep 1945 (8 weeks), DDD 13 of 1945
58	Spade Cooley	Shame On You	1945	US Country 1 for 2 weeks - Mar 1945, DDD 41 of 1945, Song of 1944
59	Harry James	I'll Buy That Dream	1945	US Billboard 2 - Sep 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Oct 1945 (7 weeks), DDD 19 of 1945
60	Tex Ritter	You Two Timed Me Once Too Often	1945	US Country 1 for 9 weeks - Aug 1945, DDD 100 of 1945, RYM 33 of 1945
61	Perry Como	I'm Gonna Love That Gal	1945	US Billboard 4 - Jul 1945 (17 weeks), US 1940s 7 - Aug 1945 (4 weeks), Europe 26 of the 1940s (1945)
62	Guy Lombardo	Bell Bottom Trousers	1945	US Billboard 2 - Jun 1945 (13 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Jun 1945 (10 weeks), DDD 28 of 1945
63	Louis Prima	Angelina	1945	Flanders 12 - Feb 1958 (1 month), US Billboard 14 - Dec 1944 (6 weeks), Brazil 60 of 1945
64	Dick Haymes	That's for Me	1945	US Billboard 6 - Oct 1945 (11 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Nov 1945 (4 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 17 - Feb 1946 (4 weeks)
65	The Mills Brothers	Put Another Chair at the Table	1945	UK 40s Sheet Music 12 - Sep 1946 (5 weeks), US Billboard 14 - May 1945 (5 weeks), DDD 80 of 1945, RYM 16 of 1945
66	Peggy Lee	Waitin' for the Train to Come In	1945	US Billboard 4 - Nov 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Nov 1945 (5 weeks), DDD 67 of 1945, RYM 18 of 1945
67	Frank Sinatra	A Friend of Yours	1945	Australia 1 for 2 months - May 1946, RYM 82 of 1945
68	Tommy Dorsey	On the Atchison, Topeka & the Santa Fe	1945	DDD 4 of 1945, US Billboard 6 - Aug 1945 (6 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Aug 1945 (6 weeks)
69	Kay Kyser	Bell Bottom Trousers	1945	US Billboard 3 - Jun 1945 (10 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Jun 1945 (6 weeks), DDD 28 of 1945
70	Bing Crosby	Aren't You Glad You're You?	1945	Oscar in 1945 (film 'The Bells of St. Mary's') (Nominated), US Billboard 8 - Dec 1945 (9 weeks), DDD 59 of 1945
71	Dinah Shore	Sleigh Ride in July	1945	Oscar in 1945 (film 'Belle of the Yukon') (Nominated), US Billboard 8 - Feb 1945 (1 week), DDD 66 of 1945
72	Frankie Carle	A Little On The Lonely Side	1945	US Billboard 4 - Feb 1945 (14 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Feb 1945 (11 weeks), Your Hit Parade 12 of 1945
73	Louis Prima	Bell Bottom Trousers	1945	US Billboard 6 - May 1945 (6 weeks), US 1940s 10 - Jun 1945 (1 week), Brazil 80 of 1946
74	Jack Guthrie	Oklahoma Hills	1945	US Country 1 for 4 weeks - Jul 1945, DDD 49 of 1945
75	Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys	Stars & Stripes on Iwo Jima	1945	US Country 1 for 3 weeks - Jul 1945, DDD 60 of 1945
76	Louis Jordan	Buzz Me	1945	US Billboard 9 - Jan 1946 (2 weeks), US 1940s 9 - Jan 1946 (1 week), DDD 11 of 1945, RYM 12 of 1945
77	Gene Autry	At Mail Call Today	1945	US Country 1 for 7 weeks - May 1945, DDD 85 of 1945
78	Wesley Tuttle	Tears In My Eyes	1945	US Country 1 for 3 weeks - Oct 1945, DDD 96 of 1945
79	Dick Haymes	Laura	1945	US Billboard 9 - May 1945 (3 weeks), US 1940s 9 - May 1945 (2 weeks), Brazil 72 of 1946
80	The Mills Brothers	I Wish	1945	US Billboard 6 - May 1945 (11 weeks), US 1940s 10 - Jul 1945 (1 week), DDD 92 of 1945, RYM 16 of 1945
81	Les Brown	Aren't You Glad You're You?	1945	US Billboard 11 - Nov 1945 (4 weeks), UK 40s Sheet Music 11 - Aug 1946 (13 weeks), DDD 59 of 1945
82	Johnnie Johnston	Laura	1945	US Billboard 5 - Jun 1945 (5 weeks), US 1940s 5 - Jun 1945 (5 weeks), DDD 23 of 1945
83	Sammy Kaye	It Might as Well Be Spring	1945	US Billboard 4 - Dec 1945 (10 weeks), US 1940s 8 - Dec 1945 (4 weeks), DDD 20 of 1945
84	Spike Jones	Chloe	1945	US Billboard 5 - Apr 1945 (6 weeks), US 1940s 5 - May 1945 (4 weeks), DDD 65 of 1945
85	Betty Hutton	Stuff Like That	1945	US Billboard 4 - Apr 1945 (10 weeks), US 1940s 7 - Apr 1945 (1 week), DDD 63 of 1945
86	Frank Sinatra	You'll Never Walk Alone	1945	US Billboard 9 - Sep 1945 (1 week), POP 22 of 1945, DDD 29 of 1945, RYM 60 of 1945
87	Paul Weston	It Might as Well Be Spring	1945	US Billboard 6 - Oct 1945 (11 weeks), US 1940s 6 - Dec 1945 (6 weeks), DDD 20 of 1945
88	Freddy Martin	Laura	1945	US Billboard 6 - Apr 1945 (7 weeks), US 1940s 7 - May 1945 (4 weeks), DDD 23 of 1945
89	Guy Lombardo	A Little On The Lonely Side	1945	US Billboard 5 - Feb 1945 (13 weeks), US 1940s 8 - Apr 1945 (2 weeks), DDD 68 of 1945
90	Erskine Hawkins	Tippin' In	1945	US Billboard 9 - Apr 1945 (8 weeks), DDD 10 of 1945, POP 10 of 1945
91	Dizzy Gillespie	Salt Peanuts	1945	US Billboard 22 - Nov 1945 (1 week), DDD 34 of 1945, RIAA 327, RYM 39 of 1953
92	Dick Haymes	I Wish I Knew	1945	US Billboard 6 - Jul 1945 (6 weeks), US 1940s 10 - Sep 1945 (1 week), DDD 86 of 1945
93	Harry James	11:60 Pm	1945	US Billboard 8 - Sep 1945 (4 weeks), US 1940s 8 - Sep 1945 (1 week), DDD 70 of 1945
94	Tommy Dorsey	Hong Kong Blues	1945	US Billboard 8 - Oct 1945 (3 weeks), US 1940s 9 - Oct 1945 (2 weeks), DDD 79 of 1945
95	Hal McIntyre & his Orchestra	My Funny Valentine	1945	Jazz Standard 6, US Billboard 16 - Feb 1945 (1 week), DDD 92 of 1944
96	Charlie Parker	Billie's Bounce	1945	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 (1945), RYM 14 of 1945
97	Tex Ritter	You Will Have to Pay	1945	US Country 1 for 4 weeks - Jan 1946, RYM 88 of 1945
98	Jo Stafford	Symphony	1945	US Billboard 4 - Dec 1945 (12 weeks), US 1940s 4 - Jan 1946 (9 weeks), RYM 90 of 1945
99	Nelson Goncalves	Maria Bethania	1945	Brazil 1 of 1945
100	Johnny Long	My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time	1945	US Billboard 3 - Apr 1945 (12 weeks), US 1940s 3 - Apr 1945 (6 weeks)

Previous Comments

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1 May 2019

lyrics to 'Gotta be This or That' 1945 Benny Goodman

27 Oct 2017

FAVORITE SONGS I HEARD DURING WWII

24 Jul 2017

post war song about soldier losing his "job."

looking for "oh, mom ,dear mom, i lost my job again. i'm a poor old slob again cause i lost my job again..." it's about a guy who was a soldier, and now the war is over.

btw: re: linda "when i go to sleep, i never count sheep, i count all thecharms about linda. and lately it seems, in all of my dreams, i [have] my arms around linda."

1 Mar 2016

REMEMNER ME song (1945/1950) ???

Looking for lyrics to this song: REMEMBER ME....hope u can help

20 Jul 2015

#64 - Carmen Cavallaro - Chopin

This song was also on the Europe 1940's Decade list (#88).

We have Carmen Cavallaro's song "Till The End of Time" at 87 in that chart

20 Jul 2015

#61 - Woody Herman - Caldonia

Song title should be Caldonia (not Caledonia). This is a cover version of Louis Jordan's Caldonia Boogie (currently #11).

Data fixed, thanks

9 Mar 2015

song in the 1940s

My wifes name is linda and we heard a song listening to the radio, sirus 40s music. All I can tell you that Linda was in the song. Is there chance it could be found so I could get it possibly bought thru I tunes and put on my I pod. Thank you Mark

If you search for "Linda" (text entry top right on this page) you will find 15 hits called "Linda" (from 1947 to 1985). Maybe it was one of them?

If you download the CSV file (from the versions page) you will find even more "Linda Themed" songs, such as Conway Twitty's "Linda On My Mind", Grass Roots' "Bella Linda" and possibly (but this is a bit of a reach) Solomon Linda & The Evening Birds' original version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from 1939. I'm sure you could find a hour's worth of reasonable "Linda Themed" hit songs from that lot.

29 Dec 2014

70 th birthday

I was wanting to compile a playlist of songs on the hit parade from '45 the year a friend was born. It was part of a 70th birthday gift. Thanks for the help provided on this website

Glad to be of service

11 Oct 2014

looking for song

I wonder if you could help me trying to find a 1945 song called Together (stroll the lane} don,t know artist first name but i belive its something Mc Crae if don.t know do you know any where else i could try and find it thanks

28 Aug 2014

Louis Jordan-Duplicate

#22 & #46 are duplicates

You are right, the data has been corrected, thanks

28 Aug 2014

Louis Jordan

#22-Caldonia was also elected to Library of Congress (NRR) in 2013.

That entry was added when we extended the Library of Congress chart, it should be there now.

24 Jul 2014

#32 Bing Crosby - Amor, Amor

http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Crosby/crosbySongs.html

The Studio Recordings Title is "Amor, Amor" (Accoring to this Link). So the entry in 1944 is not excisting.

Yours Sensimilla.

Your suggestion looks correct, we have adjusted the entries, thanks

8 Jul 2014

1946 0r 47 Popular in juke boxes

I am as restless as a willow in a windstorm... As nervous??'''

Not nervous, "I'm as jumpy as puppet on a string"

The song is "It might as well be spring", Dick Haymes had the biggest hit with it in 1945

31 Aug 2012

Saratoga Trunk Theme Song played by Max Steiner

The name of this 1945 song is called, As long as I live. I can't find it on youtube. do you know where I might find it on the computer so I can download it to my windows player.

20 Feb 2012

list all covers of , don't fence me in

Please help me find the complete list of singers who covered, Don't Fence Me In. My friend passed away and her Sister can't remember the female that did the song as she wanted it played at her service, thank you

There is a page here (at http://tsort.info/music/rxkke9.htm ) that lists everyone who had a hit with the song.

You could have found that by searching on the "Songs" page, using the "Song Titles" page, looking in the index or tracking the hits of Bing Crosby.

5 Jan 2012

top song November 10 1945

Could you pls. advise the top song in australia on November 10 1945 or November 1945. This is for a tribute pls. could you help?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_number-one_singles_in_Australia_during_the_1940s#1945 it was Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - "Don't Fence Me In"

31 Dec 2011

#32 Amor, Amor

The lyric repeats Amor. I Belive that is the confusion over the correct title.

27 Nov 2011

# 24 A Frined of Yours

Both Crosby and Sinatra recorded this song individually, but I can find no evidence of a duet. I suspect that both recordings achieved popularity in Australia, and thus both oof their names are on the credit. But since they are two separate recordings, I'm wondering if they shouldn't have separate listings.

You are almost certainly correct. Before the late 1950s it was common to list the "top 10 songs" without crediting them to any particular artist, when charts are retrospectively calculated (as the Kent chart was for Australia) the compiler might list the most popular versions. When we are faced with an artist entry of "Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra" we can't tell if that is a duet or two different versions.

Anyway we've seperated these two out, thanks for the suggestion.

15 Nov 2011

Order of songs?!

1. "Meaningless" seems a harsh term to me while in that song is obviously about 3 cities (Atchison - Kansas, Topeka - Kansas and Santa Fe - New Mexico).

2. Meanwhile the correction for No. 77 is a ghost, because that song is not existing anymore in the list for 1945. In fact, the order is radically changend.

All the best Marius

We apologise, when we looked at your suggested change of title we thought you were pointing out that the title did not have an ampersand (which, indeed we would have claimed was a meaningless fix) we failed to notice that you had also corrected the spelling of the cities.

We often get corrections that say "this particular label had this exact title so that's how you should list the song". Of course our goal here is to link entries so we'd rather have a common name (or artist assignment) than one that exactly matches a particular label.

In this case the song was apparently labeled "On The Atcheson, Topeka, and the Santa Fe" on Tommy Tucker's record (Columbia 36829). However, as you suggest, most versions used the same spelling as the city's names.

We have fixed now fixed the title. Thanks for suggesting the correction and persisting to point out our mistake.

As you say the Gene Autry song is no longer number 77 on this list. This is because there was a radical adjustment in our scoring mechanism that overcame some significant discrepancies for results from the 1980s and 1990s, that is why the version number changed from 1.10 to 2.0. The corrected song is, of course, still listed on the "Gene Autry songs" page.

We are sure that this new scoring provides a better ordering for the songs from the 1960s and later. However we also suspect (but are not certain) that the ordering of songs for 1920-1959 is also improved. Of course the lack of charts for the 1940s makes any "overall" chart suspect, especially beyond the top 20 or so songs.

3 Nov 2011

# 31 Amor, Amor

This was also a # 2 Billboard Hit.

According to the Bullfrog list the Billboard song was "Amor". It does seem likely that the same song was a hit in Australia six months later, and that the Kent listing of "Amor, Amor" is a mistake. But we don't see enough evidence to change the data.

An interesting case, we'll keep looking.

23 Oct 2011

2 small corrections

# 3 - The correct title is "On The Atchison, Topeka And Sante Fe" # 77 - The correct title: "At Mail Call Today"

Regards, Marius

For the song "On the Atcheson, Topeka & the Sante Fe" the term "Correct Title" is fairly meaningless, this song had various different titles when sung by different artists (and when published in different countries). In these lists we have decided to standardise the titles in order to make it easier to find connections (for example linking the Oscar winning version of the song with the two hits in Australia).

If you want compare the exact string published on the Australian record labels or listed in the credits to "The Harvey Girls" we provide you with the references to allow you to do that. However that level of detail doesn't interest us, we find it hard enough to keep track of the more than 100,000 standardised titles without worrying about the exact sequence of commas, ampersands and apostrophes that each printing of the label had.

For the song "At Mail Call Today" your correction is clearly correct, we have modified the data. Thanks for the fix

17 Oct 2011

Unitl (Til) the End of Time

# 5 and 35 are the same recording.

You are right, the data has been corrected, thanks for the input.

21 May 2011

Was there any song released on April 22, 1945

Yes, almost certainly, but we don't list music that way. Have you tried Discogs or RateYourMusic?

19 May 2011

Dark Moon

Who was the original singer of dark moon

We only list entries in music charts, not all the records released. The song "Dark Moon" was not a hit until 1957, when three different acts had success with it:

Gale Storm - "Dark Moon" (1957) - Canada 3 - May 1957 (9 weeks), US Billboard 5 - Apr 1957 (23 weeks), US CashBox 31 of 1957

Bonnie Guitar - "Dark Moon" (1957) - US Billboard 8 - Apr 1957 (22 weeks)

Tony Brent - "Dark Moon" (1957) - UK 17 - Jun 1957 (14 weeks)

27 Mar 2011

There Will Be a Change in Me

Greg: Re "Songs from 1945."

The song you are looking for is "There'll Be Some Changes Made."

It contains the line "From now on there'll be a change in me." The first line of the song is "For there's a change in the weather and a change in the sea."

Joel Alderman, Milford, CT

25 May 2010

Songs from 1945

Heard a song on the radio, said it was from 1945: There Will Be A Change In Me

Can't find it. I'd really like it! Heard of it? Got it?

Sincerely, Greg

It was not a hit in 1945. The only two things we can find that are close would be: "A Change in Me" from Beauty & the Beast "There's Been A Change In Me" by Eddy Arnold

2 Feb 2010

#1 Song on Birthday

What was the #1 song on September 13, 1945?

he first question is "where?", for example in Australia the number 1 song was "Don't Fence Me In" by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters

You didn't specify a location, so we suspect that you meant what was the number 1 song in the US.

So the next question would be "according to who?", there were no official charts published in the 1940s, the closest would be some occasional charts published by Billboard magazine. Billboard produced a variety of different charts starting in 1936 these were finally consolidated in 1958 into the "Hot 100" which has been published ever since (although the way they are calculated has changed of course).

In 1945 the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart is probably the most representative one. In that chart the number 1 record was:

"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer

in the entry for the song above it says "US 1 for 7 weeks - Jul 1945" that means it was the Billboard "Stores" number 1 for 7 weeks starting in July 1945.

27 Dec 2009

Double Entry in song list 1945 !?

Positions 5 and 35 say: Perry Como - Until the end of time and Perry Como - Till the end of time respectively. Same song here on different positions ?

Regards Bernie

That looks correct, the fix has been made

Thank you for the correction