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The 50 Best Hit Songs of the 1940s

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The 50 Best Hit Songs of the 1940s
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20 August 2013

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1 Play track Take The "A" Train Duke Ellington
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 3:00 216,450 listeners
2 Star Dust The Artie Shaw Orchestra
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 4:00 481 listeners
3 Play track You Always Hurt The One You Love The Mills Brothers
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 3:25 85,879 listeners
4 Play track Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy The Andrews Sisters
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 2:44 116,868 listeners
5 Chattanooga Choo Choo Glenn Miller & His Orchestra Feat. Tex Beneke, Paula Kelly & The Modernaires
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 3:28 422 listeners
6 Play track Paper Doll The Mills Brothers
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 2:40 57,930 listeners
7 Play track Sentimental Journey Doris Day
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 3:45 57,701 listeners
8 Play track Riders in the Sky Vaughn Monroe
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 2:58 20,980 listeners
9 Play track That's My Desire Sammy Kaye
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 2:37 1,348 listeners
10 Don't Fence Me In Gene Autry
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 2:37 9,866 listeners
11 Play track Tuxedo Junction Glenn Miller
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 3:37 86,791 listeners
12 Swinging On A Star The Williams Bros.
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 2:31 482 listeners
13 Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil) Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra
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 2:51 662 listeners
14 Play track Jingle, Jangle, Jingle The Merry Macs
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 2:53 2,972 listeners
15 Green Eyes Jimmy Dorsey
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 3:16 11,769 listeners
16 Play track Frenesi Artie Shaw
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 3:06 59,060 listeners
17 Till the End of Time Dick Haymes
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 3:32 1,289 listeners
18 Play track Moonlight Cocktail Glenn Miller
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 3:12 19,796 listeners
19 Play track Stormy Weather Lena Horne
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 3:51 70,099 listeners
20 Play track This Land Is Your Land Woody Guthrie
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 2:20 163,347 listeners
21 You are my Sunshine (instrumental) Jimmie Davis
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 1:08 354 listeners
22 Play track That Lucky Old Sun Frankie Laine
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 3:01 7,683 listeners
23 Play track (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons Eddy Howard
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 3:09 1,330 listeners
24 I've Got a Gal in Kalamazoo Glenn Miller Orchestra
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 2:47 2,520 listeners
25 Play track Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive Johnny Mercer
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 1:55 34,386 listeners
26 Maria Elena Jimmy Dorsey
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 3:00 2,115 listeners
27 Play track A String of Pearls Glenn Miller
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 3:12 76,031 listeners
28 Play track The Gypsy Sammy Kaye
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 3:14 1,064 listeners
29 Play track Manana Peggy Lee
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 2:53 4,936 listeners
30 Near You Francis Craig
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 2:48 2,786 listeners
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31 Amapola Jimmy Dorsey
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 3:29 9,388 listeners
32 Play track Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) Glenn Miller Orchestra
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 818 listeners
33 Play track Peg O' My Heart Harmonicats
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 2:14 1,398 listeners
34 Pistol Packin' Mama Al Dexter
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 2:51 6,405 listeners
35 Play track You'll Never Know Dick Haymes
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 2:26 28,065 listeners
36 To Each His Own Eddy Howard
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 3:06 4,858 listeners
37 Play track Rum and Coca Cola The Andrews Sisters
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 3:12 63,672 listeners
38 Play track Pennsylvania 6-5000 Glenn Miller
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 2:39 80,098 listeners
39 Play track I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire The Ink Spots
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 3:04 430,907 listeners
40 Cool Water Sons of the Pioneers
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 2:09 14,880 listeners
41 Play track As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
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 2:57 41,356 listeners
42 Play track We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me) The Ink Spots
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 3:25 9,924 listeners
43 Play track I've Heard That Song Before Harry James
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 3:00 48,099 listeners
44 Tangerine Helen O'connell
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 645 listeners
45 Play track Buttons and Bows Dinah Shore
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 2:05 38,173 listeners
46 Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) Bob and Kitty
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 3:02 268 listeners
47 Play track 'Round Midnight Miles Davis
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 5:09 221,099 listeners
48 Cruising Down the River Russ Morgan
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 2:39 2,764 listeners
49 The White Cliffs Of Dover Glenn Miller
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 2:55 1,643 listeners
50 Play track I Can Dream, Can't I? The Andrews Sisters
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 2:40 27,392 listeners

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