List of singles in the 1942 Harlem Hit Parade
| This list contains musicians, titles and their composer (s), date of entry into the charts, length of stay in the charts and highest position (abbreviated HP , each related to the calendar year). The presetting takes place after the artist / title first enters the top 10 of the charts. It can also be sorted by artist, title, chart entry, length of stay, position and label. |
The list of singles in the 1942 Harlem Hit Parade contains all songs by singles that were listed in the corresponding chart category on Billboard as of October 24, 1942 . The later Billboard Rhythm & Blues Chart emerged from the Harlem Hit Parade .
background
In 1939, Billboard magazine began informally recording which records were most promising and popular in the United States; In 1940 singles began to appear on the Billboard charts for the first time .
In the early 1940s, the market for so-called race records (records by African American musicians for an African American audience) had grown so much that Billboard became interested in measuring their sales. Race Music was a term that had been used by the record industry since the 1920s . Between 1945 and 1955, many companies specialized in music for this target audience. These record labels were independent ( indie ) labels and were able to exploit the vacuum of the "majors", the established music groups, to serve the "black" market. These included King Records in Cincinnati, Savoy Records in Newark, Apollo, Old-Time and Atlantic Records in New York, Chess and National in Chicago, Specialty , Aladdin and Modern in Los Angeles.
In the October 24, 1942 issue, Billboard presented its own charts for the first time for an African-American target audience. These appeared under the title Harlem Hit Parade . The charts were collected in an informal survey based on weekly record sales in an unspecified selection of the “most popular record stores” in the New York borough of Harlem (which was heavily influenced by Afro-American influences).
In June 1949, at the suggestion of Billboard author Jerry Wexler , the term Race was replaced in the two chart lists by the term " Rhythm and Blues ". In addition to music from this (emerging) genre, songs from swing , blues, boogie , and later also from doo wop , folk , etc. were listed.
In this first top ten list, eight entries are from African American artists. In first position were Ella Mae Morse and Freddie Slack with their “Mr. Five by Five ”, followed by Billie Holiday (with Paul Whiteman's orchestra ) with“ Trav'lin Light ”. In 1942 a total of 27 songs were placed.
list
| Interpreter | Title Author (s) |
Chart entry | Weeks | HP | Label number | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlie Barnet |
Things Ain't That What They Used to Be Duke Ellington |
11/07/1942 | 1 | 10 | Decca 18507 18 572 | The B-side of the Decca single was The Victory Walk by Lew Porter and Teepee Mitchell. |
| Barney Bigard |
"C" Blues Duke Ellington |
11/21/1942 | 4th | 7th | Bluebird 11581 | With musicians from the Duke Ellington Orchestra ( An Ellington Unit ), Bigard recorded the Ellington composition under his own name, which later became known as C Jam Blues . |
| Bea Booze |
See See Rider Blues Ma Rainey |
11/14/1942 | 2 | 9 | Decca 8633 | A song now known as CC Rider , one of the blues and jazz standards , and one of the most recorded blues songs . |
| Bing Crosby |
White Christmas Irving Berlin |
11/14/1942 | 8th | 1 | Decca 18 429 | A number one hit on the Billboard charts, Crosby's Christmas carol was also featured in the Harlem Hit Parade . |
| Tommy Dorsey |
There Are Such Things (Vocal Refrain by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers ) Adams - Baer - Meyer |
11/07/1942 | 12 | 8th | Victor 27974 | Also Dinah Shore , Dennis Day, Billy Eckstine , Joe Marsala (with Adele Girard ) and The Modern Aires took the song to the 1942nd |
| Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra |
Hayfoot, Strawfoot (Vocal Refrain by Ivie Anderson ) Ervin Drake , Harry Lenk , Paul McGrane |
11/21/1942 | 1 | 10 | Victor 20-1505 | Hayfoot, Strawfoot was a number in Fletcher Henderson's repertoire from the 1920s; Ellington's band vocalist on the July 28, 1942 recording was Ivie Anderson . |
| Lil Green |
Let's Be Friends Big Bill Broonzy |
October 24, 1942 | 1 | 8th | Bluebird 8895 | The blues song by Big Bill Broonzy was the B-side of Lil Green's single I'm Going to Start a Racket . |
| Erskine Hawkins |
Bicycle Bounce Sammy Lowe |
11/21/1942 | 3 | 9 | Bluebird 11432 | The song was the B-side of Jumpin 'in a Julep Joint . |
| Earl Hines and His Orchestra (Vocal Refrain by Billy Eckstine ) |
Stormy Monday Blues Eckstein-Crowder-Hines |
October 24, 1942 | 14th | 1 | Bluebird 11567 | The song was a hit with Earl Hines and His Orchestra and reached # 1 on the Harlem Hit Parade , making it Hines' only appearance on the charts. |
| Billie Holiday with Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra |
Trav'lin Light Trummy Young , Johnny Mercer |
October 24, 1942 | 22nd | 1 | Capitol 116 | (I'm a) Trav'lin Light was based on an instrumental number by Trummy Young from the 1930s, at the time with Earl Hines and His Orchestra ; Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics, the title of which came from Mercer's wife. |
| The Ink Spots |
Don't Get Around Much Anymore Duke Ellington , Bob Russell |
October 24, 1942 | 29 | 5 | Decca 18503 | The Ellington song, on the Decca shellac record the B-side of Street of Dreams (by Sam M. Lewis , Victor Young ), developed into one of the longest-running hits in the Harlem Hit Parade well into 1943 . |
| The Ink Spots |
Ev'ry Night About This Time James V. Monaco , Ted Koehler |
October 24, 1942 | 4th | 7th | Decca 18 461 | B-side of the single was I'm Not The Same Old Me by Al Law, Ned Brisbane and Tom Johnstone. |
| The Ink Spots |
Just As Though You Were Here Edgar De Lange , John Benson Brooks |
October 24, 1942 | 1 | 1 | Decca 18465 | Even Tommy Dorsey (with the Bandvokalisten Frank Sinatra & Pied Pipers ) was successful in 1942 with the song. |
| The Ink Spots |
This Is Worth Fighting For Edgar De Lange , Sam H. Stept |
10/31/1942 | 1 | 9 | Decca 18466 | A song dedicated to soldiers fighting in World War II. Even Jane Froman and the orchestra by Vaughn Monroe (Victor 27921) and Jimmy Dorsey (Decca 18376) took on the title 1,942th |
| Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
I'm Gonna Leave You at the Outskirts of Town Jordan, Weldon |
October 24, 1942 | 3 | 3 | Decca 8638 | I'm Gonna Leave You at the Outskirts of Town was Jordan's first chart success, which was followed by titles like GI Jive , Caldonia , Buzz Me or Is You Is OR Is You Ain't My Baby #. |
| Louis Jordan |
What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again) Novelty Blues Vocal Chorus by Louis Jordan Bubsy Meyers |
11/14/1942 | 14th | 2 | Decca 8645 | With the Novelty Song Jordan was represented in the Harlem Hit Parade well into 1943 . The Beatles covered the song during their Get Back session in 1969 . |
| Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy |
Take It and Git M & W. Chapman-Green-Marshall |
October 24, 1942 | 5 | 1 | Decca 4366 | B-side of the '78 Hip Hip Hooray . |
| Jimmie Lunceford |
It Had to Be You Isham Jones , Gus Kahn |
12/12/1942 | 1 | 3 | Decca 18 504 | Tadd Dameron provided the arrangements for Jimmie Lunceford's hits I'm Losing My Mind Because of You , It Had to Be You and I Dream a Lot about You . |
| Lucky Millinder (Vocal Chorus by Trevor Bacon) |
When the Lights Go On Again (All Over the World) Bennie Benjemen , Eddie Seiler , Sol Marcus |
October 24, 1942 | 18th | 1 | Decca 18496 | Trevor Bacon was the band vocalist on two big hit songs by Lucky Millinder, I Want a Big Fat Mama and When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World. |
| Nat King Cole Trio |
That ain't right Cole |
11/21/1942 | 7th | 6th | Bluebird 8630 | B-side was Hit That Jive Jack . |
| Tampa Red |
Let Me Play with Your Poodle Hudson Whittaker |
December 19, 1942 | 4th | 9 | Bluebird 34 0700 | Blues singer with guitar, piano and drums , it said on the label of the Brunswick 78s. The R&B number was covered by Hank Penny (King 614-A) in 1947. |
| Royal Harmony Quartet |
Praise the Lord Frank Loesser |
11/14/1942 | 1 | 10 | Keynote D101 | With Praise the Lord (and pass the Ammunition) both the gospel vocal ensemble The Southern Sons (Quartet) and the Royal Harmony Quartet were successful at the turn of the year 1942/43 . |
| Artie Shaw |
Just Kiddin 'Around Ray Conniff |
10/31/1942 | 1 | 8th | Victor 27806 | The songwriter and later band leader Ray Conniff was also the arranger of this number. |
| Freddie Slack |
Mr. Five by Five (From Universal's Film Behind the Eight Ball ) Don Raye , Gene De Paul |
October 24, 1942 | 14th | 1 | Capitol 115 | The band singer was Ella Mae Morse . A song from the Universal film Behind the Eight Ball (1942, directed by Edward F. Cline ). |
| Freddie Slack |
Cow Cow Boogie Don Raye , Gene De Paul |
10/31/1942 | 9 | 2 | Capitol 102 | Actually the B-side of the Slacks Capitol single Here You Are (by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger ), Cow-Cow Boogie developed with the band vocalist Ella Mae Morse into one of the biggest hits in the Harlem Hit Parade 1942/43. |
| The Southern Sons |
Praise the Lord (and pass the ammunition) Frank Loesser |
11/21/1942 | 7th | 7th | Bluebird 30-0806 | With Praise the Lord (and pass the Ammunition) both the gospel vocal ensemble The Southern Sons (Quartet) and the Royal Harmony Quartet were successful at the turn of the year 1942/43 . |
| Fats Waller |
Jitterbug Waltz Fats Waller |
11/24/1942 | 1 | 2 | Bluebird 11518 | This was the only original recording of the track by Fats Waller & his Rhythm, made on March 16, 1942. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Joel Whitburn: Joel Whitburn's Billboard Top R&B Singles: 1942-2016 . Record Research, 2017
- ↑ Michael Campbell Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes on. Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2005
- ↑ Rebecca Kobrin (Ed.) Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism . New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 2012.
- ^ Billboard February 26, 2000
- ↑ Initially, the following stores were included in the (non-representative) survey: Rainbow Music Shop, Harvard Radio Shop, Lehman Music Company, Harlem De Luxe Music Store, Ray's Music Shop and Frank's Melody Music Shop, New York. See Philip H. Ennis: The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rock'n'Roll in American Popular Music . Wesleyan University Press 1992
- ↑ Michael Campbell: Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On. Cengage Learning 2012, p. 160.
- ↑ Nelson George. Black Music Charts: What's in a Name? . Billboard. Vol. 94 H. 25-26 June 1982, p. 10; Deena Weinstein Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 29
- ↑ Philip M. Gentry What Will I Be: American Music and Cold War Identity , New York City: Oxford University Press 2018, p. 32
- ↑ Steven Dillon: Wolf-Women and Phantom Ladies: Female Desire in 1940s US Culture , SUNY Press 2015, p. 279.
- ↑ harlie Barnet And His Orchestra - Things Ain't What They Used To Be / The Victory Walk at Discogs
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ Lil Green - I'm Going To Start A Racket / Let's Be Friends at Discogs
- ↑ The song has sometimes been confused with T-Bone Walker's song Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad) (1945) when it is frequently abbreviated to Stormy Monday or Stormy Monday Blues .
- ↑ See Billie Holiday by John Szwed, 2015; Lady Day's Diary: The Life of Billie Holiday, 1937-1959 by Ken Vail, Castle Communications, 1996
- ↑ Ink Spots - Street Of Dreams / Don't Get Around Much Anymore at Discogs
- ↑ Ink Spots - Ev'ry Night About This Time / I'm Not The Same Old Me at Discogs
- ↑ See Breaking Records: 100 Years of Hits by William Ruhlmann. , P. 89
- ↑ James M. Salem: The Late, Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R & B to Rock 'n' Roll '. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2001; see. also Reiland Rabaka: The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation. Lexington Books 2013
- ↑ The Beatles Encyclopedia: Everything Fab Four [2 volumes]: Everything Fab Four by Kenneth Womack, 2014
- ↑ Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy - Hip Hip Hooray / Take It And Git at Discogs
- ↑ See Dameronia by Paul Combs. 2012, p. 29.
- ^ Preston Love : A Thousand Honey Creeks Later: My Life in Music from Basie to Motown — and Beyond . Middletown (CT): Wesleyan University Press 1997
- ↑ The Nat King Cole Trio - That Ain't Right / Hit That Jive Jack at Discogs
- ↑ Todd Bryant Weeks: Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page . New York: Routledge 2004
- ↑ Behind the Eight Ball in the Internet Movie Database (English)