BILLBOARD MAGAZINE’S (HONOR ROLL OF HITS-MAGAZINES CHART) TOP SINGLES OF 1948*
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No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 NOW IS THE HOUR-BING CROSBY-APRIL 2 MY HAPPINESS-JON & SANDRA STEELE-August 3 YOU CAN?T BE TRUE,DEAR-KEN GRIFFIN & JERRY WAYNE-June 4 A TREE IN THE MEADOW-MARGARET WHITING-October 5 YOU CALL EVERYBODY DARLIN'-AL TRACE & BOB VINCENT-August 6 I'M LOOKING OVER A FOUR LEAF CLOVER-ART MOONEY-February 7 BALLERINA-VAUGHN MONROE-January 7 NATURE BOY-NAT KING COLE-June 8 MANANA-Peggy Lee-April 9 IT?S MAGIC-Doris Day-September 10 TWELFTH STREET RAG-Pee Wee Hunt-September 11 Woody Woodpecker-Kay Kyser & Gloria Wood-July 12 Beg Your Pardon-Francis Craig & Bob Lamm-March 13 Toolie Oolie Doolie (The Yodel Polka)-Andrew Sisters-June 14 Little White Lies-Dick Haymes-July 15 Serenade Of The Bells-Sammy Kaye,Don Cornell & The Kaydets-January 16 Baby Face-Art Mooney-May 17 How Soon?-Bing Crosby & Carmen Cavallaro-January 18 Buttons And Bows-Dinah Shore And Her Happy Valley Boys-November 19 Golden Earrings-Peggy Lee-January 20 Maybe You?ll Be There-Gordon Jenkins & The Charles LaVere Chorus-October 21 Love Somebody-Doris Day & Buddy Clark-August 22 The Dicky-Bird Song-Freddy Martin,Glenn Hughes & Martin Men-June 23 I?ll Dance At Your Wedding-Ray Noble,Buddy Clark & Anita Gordon-January 24 Too Fat Polka-Arthur Godfrey-January 24 On A Slow Boat To China-Kay Kyser,Harry Babbitt & Gloria Wood-December 25 Hair Of Gold,Eyes Of Blue-Gordon MacRae-October 26 Underneath The Arches-Primo Scala?s Banjo & Accordion & The Keynotes-October 27 But Beautiful-Frank Sinatra-February 28 Sabre Dance-Woody Herman-April 29 Near You-Francis Craig & Bob Lamm-January 30 Civilization-Andrew Sisters & Danny Kaye-January * As published in the January 1st,1949 issue of Billboard (US) Magazine.The "Honor Roll of Hits" charts does not displaythe recording act.They just display the song.I took it on my own to insert the recording act who performed the most popular version of the song.