Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: Your Hit Parade: 1943
Year Of Release: 1991
Country: Wolrd
Label: Time-Life Books Inc./BMG Music
Genre: Oldies, Traditional Pop, Jazz, Swing, Miscellaneous
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: CBR 320 kbps
Total Time: 1 h 11 min 08 sec
Total Size: 164 Mb (+3%) | Scans
Review

1943, the second full year of World War II for the U.S., and the first full year of the recording ban called by the musicians union (though Decca Records settled with the union by the fall), was an odd time in American popular music, one in which vintage recordings were re-released for hits and in which new recordings were made a cappella to circumvent the ban....

Tracklist:

01. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - Juke Box Saturday Night (3:05)
02. Harry James & His Orchestra - I've Heard That Song Before (3:00)
03. The Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Any More (3:06)
04. Bing Crosby - Sunday, Monday Or Always (2:37)
05. Dinah Shore - You'd Be so Nice to Come Home To (2:55)
06. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - Let's Get Lost (3:01)
07. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie (3:10)
08. Fred Astaire - I'm Old Fashioned (2:26)
09. Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (3:23)
10. Dick Haymes & The Song Spinners - You'll Never Know (2:46)
11. Glenn Miller & His Orchestra - That Old Black Magic (3:04)
12. Bing Crosby & Trudy Erwin - People Will Say We're In Love (2:58)
13. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Why Don't You Do Right (3:14)
14. The Mills Brothers - Paper Doll (2:38)
15. Harry James & His Orchestra - I Had The Craziest Dream (3:25)
16. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - In The Blue Of The Evening (2:56)
17. Xavier Cugat & His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra - Brazil (2:48)
18. Judy Garland - Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (2:58)
19. Al Dexter and His Troopers - Pistol Packin' Mama (2:48)
20. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra - Taking a Chance on Love (3:11)
21. Bing Crosby - Moonlight Becomes You (3:12)
22. The Song Spinners - Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer (2:23)
23. Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra - When the Lights Go on Again (All over the World) (3:04)
24. Arthur "Dooley" Wilson - As Time Goes By (3:00)

To be continued...