TOP SONGS (Elston Brooks) IN THE USA FOR 1930*
No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month-Score 1 LITTLE WHITE LIES-FRED WARING'S PENNSYLVANIANS-AUGUST 1220 2 THE PEANUT VENDOR-DON AZPIAZU - December 988 3 TIME ON MY HANDS (YOU IN MY ARMS)-SMITH BALLEW & HIS PIPING ROCK ORCHESTRA - July 982 4 EXACTLY LIKE YOU-RUTH ETTING - April 978 5 BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON-BOB BORGER,GEORGE OLSEN & HIS ORCHESTRA - September 884 6 FOR YOU-JOHN BLOES & LEROY SHIELD'S ORCHESTRA - October 862 7 BYE,BYE BLUES-BILTMORE RHYTHM BOYS,BERT LOWN & HIS ORCHESTRA - June 842 8 WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?-Leo Reisman & His Orchestra - April 816 9 EMBRACEABLE YOU-Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - December 790 10 TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIPS-Nick Lucas - February 776 11 Happy Days Are Here Again-Benny Meroff & Dusty Rhodes - March 772 12 My Ideal-Maurice Chevalier - December 748 13 Dancing With Tears In My Eyes-Nat Shilkret & The Victor Young Orchestra - August 714 14 So Beats My Heart For You-Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchest - June 708 15 When You're Hair Has Turned To Silver-Frank Luther & Carson Robinson - May 668 16 Sing Something Simple-Jacques Renard & His Orchestra - November 650 17 Painting The Clouds With Sunshine-Nick Lucas - February 608 18 I Got Rhythm-Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - December 606 19 On The Sunny Side Of The Street-Ted Lewis & His Band - March 604 20 Should I?-Arden Ohman Orchestra - May 602 21 You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me-Bing Crosby,Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - May 594 22 A Little Kiss Each Morning (a Little Kiss Each Night)-Rudy Vallee & His Connecti - February 590 23 It Happened In Monterey-Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - May 564 24 Great Day-Paul Whiteman - January 538 25 The Stein Song (university Of Maine)-Rudy Vallee - July 510 26 The Waltz You Saved Me For-Wayne King & His Orchestra - March 484 27 Three Little Words-Duke Ellington - November 478 28 Cryin' For The Carolines-Will Morgan & Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians - August 476 29 A Cottage For Sale-Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - May 444 30 Without A Song-Paul Whiteman - January 440 31 Walkin' My Baby Back Home-Parker Gibbs,Ted Weems & His Orchestra - June 438 32 Moonlight On The Colorado-Ben Selvin & His Orchestra - September 436 33 You're Driving Me Crazy! (what Did I Do?)-Guy Lombardo - November 434 34 I Still Get A Thrill(thinking Of You)-Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - November 406 35 I'll See You Again-Leo Reisman Orchestra - January 394 36 My Future Just Passed-High Hatters - July 392 37 You Do Something To Me-Leo Reisman & His Orchestra - January 392 38 Get Happy-Phil Dewey,Frank Luther,Leo O'Rourke,Nat Shilkret & The Victor Young O - July 350 39 Two Hearts In Waltz Time-Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra - October 344 40 Cheerful Little Earful-Tom Gerun & His Orchestra - November 342 41 Ten Cents A Dance-Ruth Etting - August 340 42 Confessin' (that I Love You)-Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - September 334 43 Fine And Dandy-Arden Ohman Orchestra - October 330 44 Betty Co-ed-Bob Haring & His Orchestra - September 300 45 Blue Again-Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - December 286 46 Lady,play Your Mandolin-Nick Lucas - February 282 47 Strike Up The Band-Red Nichols & His Five Pennies - February 236 48 More Than You Know-Ruth Etting - February 232 49 Can This Be Love?-Arden Ohman Orchestra - October 226 50 Why Was I Born?-Helen Morgan - January 200 51 I'm Alone Because I Love You-Frank Luther - March 180 52 Dancing On The Ceiling-Jack Hylton & His Orchestra - April 178 53 If I Had A Talking Picture Of You-Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra - January 136 54 My Baby Just Cares For Me-Art Jarrett,Ted Weems & His Orchestra - May 100 55 Sunny Side Up-Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra - January 94 *this list was compiled by Elston Brooks from his book "I?ve Heard Those Songs Before" by Morrow Quill paperbacks, New York (1981).The book only lists the song titles.I provided the artists by referring to Joel Whitburn's 1986 book-Pop Memories 1890-1954. I chose the recording act that had the most successful version of the song.