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In the United Kingdom, a recording of "Heartaches" by Vera Lynn was the most successful and the song impacted the sheet music chart from July to October 1947, peaking at number 10. [15] The song features in the 1947 film of the same title. [16] In January 1948, Billboard listed the Ted Weems version of "Heartaches" as 1947's third biggest ...
Honor Roll of Hits – a composite ten-position song chart which combined data from the three charts above along with three other component charts. [4] [5] It served as The Billboard ' s lead chart until the introduction of the Hot 100 in 1958 and would remain in print until 1963. [6]
Vaughn Monroe had four songs on the top singles list, the most of any artist in 1947. Eddy Howard had three songs on the top singles list. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1947 according to retail sales.
William Elmo Tanner, known as Elmo Tanner (August 8, 1904 – December 20, 1990) was an American whistler, singer, bandleader and disc jockey, best known for his whistling on the chart-topping song “Heartaches” with the Ted Weems Orchestra. Tanner and Weems recorded the song for two record companies within five years.
Sheets containing only the chord progressions to the song are often called chord charts or chord sheets, to distinguish them from lead sheets. These sheets could be used by the rhythm section instruments to guide their improvised accompaniment and by lead instruments for their improvised solo sections, but since they do not contain the melody, they can be used in performances only by players ...
The song was Skaggs' fifth number one on the country chart and his fifth consecutive #1. The single stayed at #1 for one week and spent a total of 12 weeks on the chart. [1] The song was covered in Spanish as "Blues de la Nacional II" by La Guardia. The song was also covered by Daniel O'Donnell on his Two Sides Of album which was released in 1985.
However, the biggest hit of Weems's career was a reissue on his former Decca label: the Weems Orchestra's 1938 recording of "Heartaches" topped the national charts for 13 weeks. [5] [20] Ted Weems (right) with William P. Gottlieb, WINX Studio, Washington, D.C., ca. 1940. For his August 4, 1933 session, Weems recorded six tunes, including ...
US Billboard 1947 no. 287, US pop charts no. 24 for 1 week, 1 total weeks, US Billboard Most-Played Juke Box Race Records 1947 no. 3, Race Records chart no. 1 for 12 weeks, 28 total weeks, 168 pointsselling over 500,000 copies 4: Savannah Churchill and the Sentimentalists (aka The Four Tunes) "I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You)" [22] Manor 1046