45 RPM Ep 28 – Top Hits of 1943

Producer, Writer and Host Sam Waldron
Lives in North Seattle

Original Air Date: July 16th, 2018

Show 28, “Top Hits of 1943,” tracks every #1 best-selling hit record of 1943 plus a few other important songs from that year. Performers include Helen Forrest, Glenn Miller, Bing Crosby, The Mills Brothers, Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, and a special guest from the 21st century: vocalist Sophie Milman.

Track List

String of Pearls The Glenn Miller Orchestra
White Christmas Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers, John Scott Trotter Orchestra
There Are Such Things Tommy Dorsey, Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
I had the Craziest Dream Harry James and his Orchestra and Helen Forrest
I’ve Heard That Song Before Harry James and his Orchestra and Helen Forrest
That Old Black Magic Glenn Miller’s Orchestra, Skip Nelson and The Modernaires
Taking a Chance on Love Benny Goodman’s Orchestra and Helen Forrest
Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer The Song Spinners
You’ll Never Know Dick Haymes and the Song Spinners
In the Blue of Evening Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra
Sunday Monday or Always Bing Crosby and the Ken Darby Singers
Pistol Packin’ Mama Al Dexter and His Troopers
Paper Doll The Mills Brothers
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Kay Kyser and his Orchestra
Let’s Get Lost Vaughn Monroe and the Four Lee Sisters
People Will Say We’re in Love Bing Crosby and Trudy Erwin
People Will Say We’re in Love Sophie Milman
String of Pearls The Glenn Miller Orchestra