No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month
1 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN-BING CROSBY-DECEMBER
2 THE WAY YOU LOOK TO-NIGHT-FRED ASTAIRE-October
3 THE GLORY OF LOVE-BENNY GOODMAN-June
4 ALONE-TOMMY DORSEY-February
5 GOODY GOODY-BENNY GOODMAN-April
6 A FINE ROMANCE-FRED ASTAIRE-September
7 THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND ROUND-TOMMY DORSEY-January
8 DID I REMEMBER?-Shep Fields-September
9 IT's A SIN TO TELL A LIE-Fats Waller-August
10 IS IT TRUE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT DIXIE?-Jimmy Dorsey-June
11 A Melody From The Sky-Jan Garber-May
12 Moon Over Miami-Eddy Duchin-February
13 The Music Goes Round And Round-Riley-Farley Orchestra-January
14 In The Chapel In The Moonlight-Shep Fields-December
15 When Did You Leave Heaven?-Guy Lombardo-November
16 There's A Small Hotel-Hal Kemp-July
17 Until The Real Thing Comes Along-Andy Kirk-August
18 When I'm With You-Hal Kemp-August
19 These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You-Benny Goodman-August
20 Lost-Guy Lombardo-May
21 It's Been So Long-Benny Goodman-April
22 A Beautiful Lady In Blue-Jan Garber-March
23 You Turned The Tables On Me-Benny Goodman-November
24 Take My Heart-Eddy Duchin-July
25 Lights Out-Eddy Duchin-March
26 All My Life-Fats Waller-June
27 You-Tommy Dorsey-May
28 I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket-Fred Astaire
29 I'll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs-Eddy Duchin-December
* This list was compiled by data from the book titled
"Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954"
(1986) by Billboard Publications,Inc.
Whitburn's book used data from:
Record label best-seller rankings
Billboard radio airplay charts
"Your Hit Parade"
ASCAP
Miscellaneous reference sources (for record labels not listed)