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This is a list of number-one songs in the United States during the year 1944 according to The Billboard. Prior to the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 , The Billboard published multiple singles charts each week.
"Swinging on a Star" is an American pop standard with music composed by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. [1] It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1944 film Going My Way, winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song that year, [1] [2] and has been recorded by numerous artists since then.
Going My Way is a 1944 American musical comedy drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.Written by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, based on a story by McCarey, the film is about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran.
For soldiers in France listening to Bing Crosby sing "White Christmas" in December 1944, home must have seemed far away.. The legendary crooner, who first sang the song that reminisces about snowy ...
Dexter was also the artist with the most different songs at number one in 1944, topping the chart with "Pistol Packin' Mama", "Rosalita", "Too Late to Worry" and "So Long Pal". [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Louis Jordan was the only other artist to top the chart with more than one song during the year.
1944 in music. 14 languages ... Singer Bing Crosby performing in London, 1944. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1944. Specific ...
Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
The two biggest-selling versions in the United States were recorded by Bing Crosby and Andy Russell. Crosby's version was recorded on February 17, 1944 [1] for Decca Records [2] as catalog number 18608. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 29, 1944, and lasted seven weeks on the chart, peaking at number four. [3]