The Hit Parade 1944: 25 Original Recordings by the Original Artists
by Various Artists



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CD Details
- Released: March 20, 2007
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Dynamic Nostalgia
Tracks:
- 1.Frank Sinatra I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night
- 2.The Mills Brothers You Always Hurt The One You Love
- 3.Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Eberly, & Kitty Kallen Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
- 4.Louis Jordan G.I. Jive
- 5.The Inkspots & Ella Fitzgerald Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
- 6.Guy Lombardo & Billy Leach Speak Low
- 7.Jo Stafford Long Ago (And Far Away)
- 8.The Merry Macs Mairzy Doats
- 9.Helen Forrest Time Waits For No One
- 10.Lawrence Welk & Wayne Marsh Don't Sweetheart Me
- 11.Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Don't Fence Me In
- 12.The Four King Sisters Its Love-Love-Love
- 13.Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest It Had To Be You
- 14.Duke Ellington Do Nothin' 'Till You Hear From Me
- 15.Harry James & Dick Haymes I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
- 16.Bing Crosby Swinging On A Start
- 17.Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes Together
- 18.Judy Garland The Trolley Song
- 19.Andy Russell Amor
- 20.David Rose Holiday For Strings
- 21.Tommy Dorsey Boogie Woogie
- 22.Tony Pastor & Ruth Mccollough I'll Walk Alone
- 23.Russ Morgan & Al Jennings Dance With A Dolly (With A Hole In Her Stockin')
- 24.Ella Mae Morse No Love No Nothing
- 25.Glen Gray & Eugene Baird My Shining Hour
Product Description:
The 1944 volume of this ubiquitous CD series -- which, it's amazing, Time Life or some other U.S. distributor didn't come up with first -- offers a reminder of just how tame, yet accomplished, American pop music had gotten three years into U.S. involvement in World War II. There are some superb examples of early R&B here, in the form of the Mills Brothers, Louis Jordan, the Ink Spots (with Ella Fitzgerald), and Ella Mae Morse doing "You Always Hurt the One You Love," "G.I. Jive," "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall," and "No Love No Nothing," respectively, and a few swinging moments from Tommy Dorsey ("Boogie Woogie"). But the dominating sounds are pop music, though mostly of a highly polished sort -- Frank Sinatra at his most sultry with "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" and Guy Lombardo (with Billy Leach on vocals) doing "Speak Low." The point of it all, if there was one, was a desire not to make waves on the airwaves -- but make it classy, and even the R&B-flavored sides here are mostly that. The quality is excellent, and only the absence of any annotation will lessen the enjoyment for those with a taste for these pop sounds. ~ Bruce Eder
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- UPC: 827139290528
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