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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 1945, the fifth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the first year to feature a Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. This great value 94-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart during the year, plus those which entered the Top 10 in the final weeks of the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944, and so are included in our existing 1944 collection. It was another vintage year for Bing Crosby, who had 9 hits during the year, while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six. Johnny Mercer had three No. 1s, one with Jo Stafford, and Doris Day made her chart debut with two No. 1s. Others who featured at No.1 were The Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, Harry James, Sammy Kaye and Freddy Martin, while there were also many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close, celebrated by a number of both sentimental and celebratory hits. It includes a 12,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information.
1 Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
2 The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola
3 Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - Don't Fence Me in
4 Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Georgia Carroll - There Goes That
5 Kate Smith - Don't Fence Me in
6 Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Carl Grayson - Cocktails for Two
7 Frank Sinatra - I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
8 Perry Como - I Dream of You
9 Artie Shaw & His Orchestra - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
10 Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
11 Horace Heidt & His Musical Knights - Don't Fence Me in
12 Harry James & His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - I'm Beginning to See
13 Frank Sinatra - Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
14 Frankie Carle & His Orchestra with Paul Allen - a Little on the Lonely
15 Abe Lyman & His Orchestra with Rose Blane - Rum and Coca-Cola
16 Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Rum and Coca-Cola
17 Jo Stafford, Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - Candy
18 Gertrude Niesen - I Wanna Get Married
19 Duke Ellington with His Famous Orchestra with Joya Sherrill - I'm Beginning to See the Light
20 Pied Pipers with Paul Weston & His Orchestra - Dream
21 Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - My Dreams Are Getting Better
22 The Phil Moore Four - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
23 Les Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - Sentimental Journey
24 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - a Little on the Lonely Side
- Disc 2 -
1 Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - There! I've Said It Again
2 Bing Crosby - Just a Prayer Away
3 Johnny Long & His Orchestra & Dick Robertson - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time
4 Betty Hutton - Stuff Like That There
5 Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Laura
6 Dinah Shore - Candy
7 Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - Just a Prayer Away
8 Spike Jones & His City Slickers with Red Ingle - Chloe
9 Ella Fitzgerald & Ink Spots - I'm Beginning to See the Light
10 Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Caldonia
11 Freddy Martin & His Orchestra - Laura
12 Tony Pastor & His Orchestra with Ruth McCullough - Bell Bottom
13 Dick Haymes - Laura
14 Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders - You Belong to
15 Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - Caldonia
16 Frank Sinatra - Dream
17 Bing Crosby & Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra - You Belong to My
18 Johnnie Johnston - Laura
19 Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra - Sentimental Journey
20 Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers
21 Louis Prima & His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers
22 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - Bell Bottom
23 Merry Macs - Sentimental Journey
24 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Gotta Be This or That (Pt. 1)
- Disc 3 -
1 Carmen Cavallaro & His Orchestra - Chopin's Polonaise
2 Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers - on the Atchison Topeka & Santa
3 Mills Brothers - I Wish
4 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra with Wynonie Harris - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well
5 Perry Como - If I Loved You
6 Bing Crosby - on the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
7 Jerry Colonna - Bell Bottom Trousers
8 Stan Kenton & His Orchestra with June Christy - Tampico
9 Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with the Sentimentalists - on the
10 Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams & Nancy Norman - Good Good Good (That's You-That's You)
11 Perry Como - Till the End of Time
12 Perry Como - I'm Gonna Love That Gal
13 Dick Haymes - I Wish I Knew
14 Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie
15 Dinah Shore - Along the Navajo Trail
16 Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - 11:60 PM
17 Dick Haymes - Till the End of Time
18 Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters - Along the Navajo Trail
19 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra with Dottie Reid - It's Only a Paper
20 Judy Garland and the Merry Macs - on the Atchison Topeka &
21 Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest - I'll Buy That Dream
22 Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Skeets Herfurt - Hong Kong
23 Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - I'll Buy That Dream
24 Charlie Spivak & His Orchestra with Irene Daye - It's Been a Long
25 Bing Crosby with Les Paul & His Trio - It's Been a Long Long Time
- Disc 4 -
1 Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - It's Been a Long
2 Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams & Nancy Norman -
3 Dick Haymes - That's for Me
4 Stan Kenton & His Orchestra with June Christy - It's Been a Long
5 Dick Haymes - It Might As Well Be Spring
6 Jo Stafford - That's for Me
7 Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallero at the Piano - I Can't Begin to
8 Peggy Lee - Waitin' for the Train to Come in
9 Spike Jones & His City Slickers - Holiday for Strings
10 Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra & Delta Rhythm Boys - the
11 Harry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - Waitin' for the
12 Paul Weston & His Orchestra & Margaret Whiting - It Might As Well
13 Perry Como - Dig You Later (A-Hubba Hubba Hubba)
14 Frank Sinatra - Nancy (With the Laughing Face
15 Freddie Martin & His Orchestra with Clyde Rogers - Symphony
16 Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief
17 Bing Crosby - White Christmas
18 Bing Crosby - Symphony
19 Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It
20 Sammy Kaye & His Orch with Billy Williams - It Might As Well Be
21 Andy Russell - I Can't Begin to Tell You
22 Harry James and His Orchestra with Ruth Haag - I Can't Begin to Tell
23 Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five - Buzz Me
24 Evelyn Knight & the Jesters - Chickery Chic
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 1945, the fifth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the first year to feature a Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. This great value 94-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart during the year, plus those which entered the Top 10 in the final weeks of the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944, and so are included in our existing 1944 collection. It was another vintage year for Bing Crosby, who had 9 hits during the year, while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six. Johnny Mercer had three No. 1s, one with Jo Stafford, and Doris Day made her chart debut with two No. 1s. Others who featured at No.1 were The Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, Harry James, Sammy Kaye and Freddy Martin, while there were also many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close, celebrated by a number of both sentimental and celebratory hits. It includes a 12,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information.