Search - Various Artists :: 40 #1 Hits of the 40's

You couldn?t ask for a better musical overview of the "Fabulous ?Forties" than this: four #1 hits from each year of the decade, taken from radio broadcasts or transcription discs, almost all available for the first time ever right here! It?s a star-studded, hit-happy Collectors? Choice Music exclusive! Includes "Frenesi" - Artie Shaw, "Tuxedo Junction," "In the Mood," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," "Moonlight Cocktails," "I?ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo" - Glenn Miller, "I?ll Never Smile Again" - Tommy Dorsey, "Amapola," "Tangerine" - Jimmy Dorsey, "Piano Concerto in B Flat" - Freddy Martin, "Daddy" - Sammy Kaye, "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" - Kay Kyser, "I?ve Heard That Song Before," "I?ll Get By" - Harry James, "Paper Doll" - Mills Brothers, "Pistol Packin? Mama" - Al Dexter, "Sunday, Monday or Always" - Bing Crosby, "Shoo Shoo Baby" - Stan Kenton, "Swingin? on a Star" - Dorothy Collins, "Don?t Fence Me In" - Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters, "Rum and Coca-Cola" - Andrews Sisters, "Till the End of Time" - Perry Como, "On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe" - Johnny Mercer/Pied Pipers, "Sentimental Journey" - Les Brown, "The Gypsy" - Ink Spots, "Oh! What It Seemed to Be," "Rumors Are Flying" - Frankie Carle, "To Each His Own" - Eddy Howard, "Heartaches" - Ted Weems, "Near You" - Francis Craig, "Ballerina," "Ghost Riders in the Sky" - Vaughn Monroe, "Peg O? My Heart" - Harmonicats, "Manana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" - Peggy Lee/Desi Arnaz, "Nature Boy" - Nat King Cole, "Twelfth Street Rag" - Pee Wee Hunt, "Buttons and Bows" - Dinah Shore, "That Lucky Old Sun" - Frankie Laine, "A Little Bird Told Me" - Eileen Wilson, and "Cruising Down the River" - Russ Morgan.