Songs from the Year 1952

Previous Comments (newest first)

19 Mar 2022

1952 /53

I

I only know the first line of a song I once sang in high school can you help me find the title? I.m sitting by the window, watching the raindrops fall. thinking of you darling, hoping that you would call.

19 Sep 2020

1952 Song 80

Believe this should be Take me in your arms and HOLD ME - a song by CindyWalker

25 Mar 2020

#1 Hit for July 4, 1952

What was the number one hit song playing July 4th 1952?

3 Aug 2019

1952 song

Hi...I am looking for a song in 1952...I was born in May of that year...aftera song named Sherryee from a French crooner singer....but I could not find it...My aunt said it was she thinks 3 months before I was born....can you find it for me? +If you can...I just want to here the song...I have been looking off and on all my life...can't seem to find it...maybe my mom spelled it wrong and it was cherrie or Cherie instead. +Thank you, Sherryee Wetzel

We suspect Italian not French: "Cherie" from Nilla Pizzi (1953), or Georges Ulmer "Caroline Cherie" (1951).

23 Apr 2019

songs about Seven Falls and Garden of the Gods

21 Oct 2018

song hummingbird+

I am looking for a 1950s group who recorded this hummingbird song

Les Paul & Mary Ford, Frankie Laine, The Chordettes or BB King,

23 Jan 2018

High Noon

Frankie Laine's version seems to get the Oscar points and ends up much higherthan Tex Ritter's, although Tex Ritter sang in the movie.

In the early 1950s the song was the main thing, not the particular version, strictly you are correct but the Frankie Laine version is better known

13 Jan 2016

I'm looking for a singer who recorded "If I had the heart of a clown" in either 1948 or 1949 - any help?

The only song we have with that title was by Bobby Wayne and was a minor US hit in 1952

28 Dec 2014

René Carol - Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein. Pos. 43

Dear tsort.info/music staff,

I'm writing you becauseI'm writing you because I may have noticed a slight inaccuracy. About the 43rd position, the artist name is presented as "Reno Carol" while it probably should be "René Carol".

This is, nonetheless, the first imprecision I ever found in your work. As a matter of fact, I'd like to take this opportuny to congratulate you for your impeccable work all these years. I'd just like to help your incredible activity with my little input. Thank you for your attention.

Cordially, Lorenzo Maccheroni

In fact it's not a mistake, the situation is explained in one of the FAQ's ("Why are there no letters with accents in the names?"). The issue is that different data sources treat accents in different ways, rather than try to fix all the resulting bad entries we've taken the decision to just force all the data to use the simplest approach.

We realise that this is bad, but we would claim its the least bad option.

19 Aug 2013

I am using this for research for a book I am writing. Thanks. P.S I am actually only 12 so I do not know what number which song was on.

Cheers.

Good luck with the book, tell us when its available

25 Mar 2013

Karen chandler

Hold me, thrill me, kiss me reached number 5+ in 1952. I was stationed at camp Pendleton and +this was our favorite song and we heard it all the time. Why is it not mentioned.

Thank you dear departed Karen Chandler and Semper fi

Karen Chandler's song "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" (1952) reached "US Billboard 5 - Oct 1952 (18 weeks), US CashBox 6 - Dec 1952 (21 weeks), US 1940s 7 - Nov 1952 (16 weeks)"

It was only a hit in the USA, and our calculation puts it just outside the top 100 for the year. This is a case that could be seen as an unfortunate side effect of the way we combine charts.

23 Dec 2012

Snow Bell(s)

As I recall in the winter of 51 or 52 there was an instrumental named Snow Bell or Snow Bells. Very pretty but I can't find any reference to it. Can you help me? Dennis

No idea

5 Sep 2012

Tony Williams

Tony Williams, who sang with the Platters, did at least one solo album but I have never been able to find any information on that or any of his singles. Any ideas?

Regards, Alex (Queensland, Australia)

There are three different Tony Williams that were musicians at the same time. One was a jazz drummer who played with Miles Davis and others, he had albums in our charts from 1965 ("Life Time", "Spring" and "The Joy of Flying") and with a group called "The Tony Williams Lifetime" ("Emergency!" and "Turn It Over"). The second was an English guitar player with Stealer's Wheel and Jethro Tull. The third was, as you say, in The Platters.

We have one song entry for Tony Williams, the song "It's so easy to surrender (Un'anima tra le mani)" which was number 46 of 1962 in Italy.

We suspect (but don't know) that the song was by the Tony Williams you are after.

18 May 2012

New e mail

We're having a street party is there anyway we can get CD's of the 1952 charts?

The easiest thing would be to buy the ones you like best on Amazon or iTunes and write your own CD

10 May 2012

May 17, 1952

Can you tell me the United Kingdom No. 1 song on May 17, 1952. It was the date my brother was born.

Look at the Number Ones page (link in the text above)

30 Mar 2012

No1 record 1st April 1952 uk

I was born on this date could you tell me uk no 1

Now that the sheet music listing is included you can find it on the number ones page

21 Feb 2012

the alamo

can you tell me who where the offscreen chorus that sang the green leaves of summer, the back ground tune to the film alamo, no one out there seems to know?

thanks

ps been trying for years to get a answear

We would suggest that you look at IMDb.

We can't identify which film you mean, for example the film "The Last Command" was released in 1955 (and the music was sung by Gordon MacRae).

But we think you mean the 1960 film "The Alamo" which starred John Wayne. According to IMDb the song "Green Leaves of Summer" was sung by the "Students' Association Choir, University of Texas", while Amazon (which has multiple versions of the soundtrack available for mp3 download) credits it to either the Dimitri Tiomkin Orchestra or Brothers Four.

So we think the song in the film is by Brothers Four and has the following entries - Oscar in 1960 (film 'The Alamo') (Nominated), Norway 10 - Nov 1961 (1 week), Brazil 14 of 1960, US Billboard 65 - Oct 1960 (7 weeks)

17 Jul 2011

No sleeping lion

I'm pretty sure that the title of your #80 Weavers song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was actually "Wimoweh".

You are right, the Weavers did call their version "Wimoweh" but the original name (the 1939 South African version by the Evening Birds) was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The Wikipedia page has an image of the most successful version by The Tokens which also uses this same name.

As we have mentioned elsewhere where alternate song titles or artist names are used (for example in different countries) we try and remain consistent rather than always reflecting the exact names used. There are plenty of places to find the exact title the Weavers used, we're more interested in comparing their worldwide success with that of The Tokens, Tight Fit and Robert John (and we think we're the best place to do that).

We'll add a note on to the song's page.

Thanks for the input

1 Jul 2011

Maybe you can help

My brothers and I remember a record Dad used to play that had a chorus that sounded like they were singing "Ka viva viva vit". We're all in our early 60's so the song was probably written or being played about the period of 5 years either side of 1950.

It was sung by a group, male and female in close harmony and had a bit of accordian in there and sounded a bit "Jo Stafford-ish". I can sing the tune all the way through but don't know the words and don't know the title. Do you have any idea what it could be called?

Here at the Turret we have no idea, maybe one of our users can help?

24 Aug 2010

Les Paul Song

According to several sources that I have come across, Les Paul's song Meet Mr. Callahan/Callaghan was a top 25 or better song, but I do not see it in your list. Do you have any information on this song?

Les Paul had most of his hits with his wife, Mary Ford, they are listed in the top 1000 artists.

As a solo artist he had 20 hits, the biggest being "Whispering" in 1951. "Meet Mr Callaghan" reached number 5 in the Billboard charts and had a run of 14 weeks starting in Aug 1952, it also was in the Cashbox and US 1940s charts.

However as a solo artist his overall position was 1484, well outside the top 1000 artists that we list here (in the 1.9.071 dataset).

1 Feb 2010

number one song on Jan.28,1952

What was the number one song on Jan.28,1952?

The first question is "where?", for example in Australia the number 1 song was "Because of You" by Tony Bennett.

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 early 1950s, 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 1952 the "Best Sellers in Stores" chart is probably the most representative one. In that chart the number 1 record was:

"Cry" by Johnnie Ray

In our list the song is listed under 1951 where is says "US 1 for 11 weeks - Dec 1951" which means it was the Billboard "Stores" number 1 for 11 weeks starting in December 1951