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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1942 according to The Billboard. The National Best Selling Retail Records chart was the first to poll retailers nationwide on record sales. The chart was billed as a "trade service feature," based on the "10 best selling records of the past week" at a selection of national ...
"Cow Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay)" is a "country-boogie"-style blues song, with music was written by Don Raye, and lyrics were written by Benny Carter and Gene De Paul. [1] The song was written for the 1942 Abbott & Costello film Ride 'Em Cowboy , which included Ella Fitzgerald as a cast member, but was cut from the movie.
The 1942 lyrics to the song as recorded by Glenn Miller were: "It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that / It must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that / Oh Mama, you're so big and fat!" The Glenn Miller civilian band played the same arrangement that was performed at least twice, available on a Victor 78 recording, Victor 20-1546-A ...
The Fleet's In is a 1942 movie musical produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Victor Schertzinger, and starring Dorothy Lamour and William Holden.Although sharing the title of the 1928 Paramount film starring Clara Bow and Jack Oakie, it was not a remake.
The Mills Blue Rhythm Band's rendition reached No. 8 that year. [2] " Solitude" was recorded at least 28 times between 1934 and 1942. [ 7 ] Vocalist Billie Holiday recorded the song several times in the 1940s and 1950s, "with the world-weariness of the words matching to an almost disturbing degree her late-career persona". [ 8 ]
"Jingle Jangle Jingle", also known as 'I've Got Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle", is a song written by Joseph J. Lilley and Frank Loesser, and published in 1942. [1] It was featured in that year's film The Forest Rangers , in which it was sung by Dick Thomas .
It was the #27 BS record of 1942, and went on to sell one million records. [18] Jimmie Lunceford's two-sided platter was recorded on December 22, 1941, and released on Decca 4125 in January. [6] [16] Starting January 31, 1942, it ran 10 weeks on the BS chart, peaking at #4. [18] The Cab Calloway recording was released by OKeh Records as catalog ...
93d Bomb Group B-24D "Jersey Bounce" in 1942 During World War II the title was popular as a nickname for aircraft. One of the first examples was a B-24D Liberator that served in the Eighth Air Force with the 93rd Bomb Group at Alconbury, England , in 1942 and 1943.