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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. In 1944, the following two all-genre national singles charts were published:
Most Played Juke Box Records (debuted January 1944) – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. Most Played by Jockeys (debuted February 1945) – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations. The list below includes the Best Selling Singles chart ...
On August 1, 1942, a strike by the American Federation of Musicians ended all recording sessions. Record companies kept business going by releasing recordings from their vaults, but by mid-1943, alternate sources were running dry, as the strike continued.
Jordan's version of "G.I. Jive" was the second recording of the song to top the chart in 1944, following a rendition by Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston and his Orchestra earlier in the year. It was the most successful of many songs released during World War II which bemoaned life in the army. [5]
The term "country music" would not come into standard usage until the late 1940s and "folk music" was one of a number of terms used for the genre in earlier years; [1] the subtitle on the first chart indicated that it covered "Hillbillies, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, etc". [2]
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US Billboard 1944 #93, US Pop #12, US Hillbilly 1944 #6, Hillbilly #1 for 6 weeks, 23 total weeks 7: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys "You're From Texas" [3] Okeh 6722: July 15, 1942 () August 1944 () US Billboard 1944 #105, US Pop #14, US Hillbilly 1944 #7, Hillbilly #2 for 2 weeks, 28 total weeks 8: Tex Ritter and His Texans
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