EDWARD FOOTE GARDNER TOP US SINGLES FOR 1944*
No. Song-Artist-Month 1 I'LL BE SEEING YOU-BING CROSBY-JUNE 1448 2 I'LL WALK ALONE-DINAH SHORE-September 1398 3 SWINGING ON A STAR-BING CROSBY-August 1364 4 YOU ALWAYS HURT THE ONE YOU LOVE-MILLS BROTHERS-September 1172 5 I'LL GET BY (AS LONG AS I HAVE YOU)-HARRY JAMES & DICK HAYMES-July 1164 6 BESAME MUCHO-JIMMY DORSEY-March 1024 7 LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY-HELEN FORREST & DICK HAYMES-June 1004 8 MAIRZY DOATS-Merry Macs-April 976 9 TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE-Helen Forrest-September 916 10 AMOR, AMOR-Bing Crosby-July 912 11 I Love You-Bing Crosby-May 908 12 San Fernando Valley-Bing Crosby-May 908 13 It's Love, Love, Love-Guy Lombardo-April 904 14 It Had To Be You-Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest-September 880 15 Dance With A Dolly-Russ Morgan-December 868 16 G. I. Jive-Louis Jordan-July 844 17 Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)-Louis Jordan-September 796 18 Goodnight, Wherever You Are-Russ Morgan-July 776 19 The Trolley Song-Judy Garland-December 772 20 Holiday For Strings-David Rose Orchrstra-March 752 21 Together-Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest-November 738 22 I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night-Frank Sinatra-April 736 23 My Heart Tells Me-Glen Gray-January 730 24 Poinciana (Song Of The Tree)-Bing Crosby-April 708 25 Don't Sweetheart Me-Lawrence Welk Orchestra & Wayne Marsh-May 676 26 How Many Hearts Have You Broken-Three Suns-October 668 27 When They Ask About You-Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra & Kitty Kallen-March 644 28 No Love, No Nothin'-Judy Garland-February 640 29 I'm Making Believe-Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald-December 628 30 Always-Jack Smith-November 594 31 Shoo-shoo Baby-Andrews Sisters-February 572 32 Boogie Woogie-Tommy Dorsey Orchestra-January 552 33 Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet-Woody Herman Orchestra-July 528 34 There'll Be A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin-Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters-November 472 35 It Could Happen To You-Bing Crosby-September 456 36 And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine-Stan Kenton Orchestra & Anita O'Day-November 404 37 For The First Time-Dick Haymes-January 380 38 My Ideal-Margaret Whiting, Billy Butterfield Orchestra-January 374 39 By The River Of The Roses-Woody Herman Orchestra-April 364 40 A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening-Frank Sinatra-March 360 41 Too-ra Loo-ra Loo-ral-Bing Crosby-December 350 42 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me-Duke Ellington-March 348 43 Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes-Merry Macs-September 344 44 Speak Low (When You Speak, Love)-Guy Lombardo-February 320 45 Someday I'll Meet You Again-Ink Spots-July 316 46 Straighten Up And Fly Right-Nat King Cole-July 296 47 Star Eyes-Jimmy Dorsey-February 294 48 Cherry-Harry James-February 272 49 White Christmas-Bing Crosby-December 270 50 His Rocking Horse Ran Away-Betty Hutton & Paul Weston Orchestra-September 244 51 My Shining Hour-Glen Gray-January 240 52 Till Then-Mills Brothers-September 204 53 I Wish I Could Hide Inside This Letter-Jayne Walton-April 204 54 The Dreamer-Kay Armen & Balladiers-January 204 55 A Fellow On A Furlough-Phil Hanna & Leonard Joy Orchestra-September 188 56 Suddenly It's Spring-Glen Gray,Casa Loma Orchestra & Eugenie Baird-June 164 57 Going My Way-Bing Crosby-August 160 58 How Blue The Night-Dick Haymes & Emil Newman Orchestra-July 152 59 Smoke On The Water-Red Foley-October 112 60 I'll Be Home For Christmas-Bing Crosby-December 112 61 Sweet And Lovely-Bing Crosby-October 108 62 Let Me Love You Tonight-Woody Herman Orchestra & Billie Rogers-December 108 63 Cow-cow Boogie-Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse-April 100 64 Little Did I Know-Glen Gray Orchestra & Phil Brito-January 92 65 Take It Easy-Guy Lombardo Orchestra-March 88 66 An Hour Never Passes-Gladys Tell & Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra-October 68 67 Time Alone Will Tell-Victor Silvester & Eric Winstone-June 56 68 The Patty-cake Man-Ella Mae Morse-October 52 69 Whispering-Frank Froba Orchestra-November 52 70 What A Diff'rence A Day Makes-Dorsey Brothers Orchestra-November 52 71 The Very Thought Of You-Vaughn Monroe Orchestra-December 52 72 Sweet Lorraine-Bing Crosby-July 52 73 And Then You Kissed Me-Frank Sinatra-August 48 74 The Day After Forever-Bing Crosby-September 48 75 Tess's Torch Song (I Had A Man)-Ella Mae Morse,Dick Walters Orchestra-June 48 76 Strange Music-James Melton-November 48 77 Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year-Hutch-May 44 *Edward Foote Gardner ia a mathematician who used data to compile bi-monthly US single charts between 1899 and 1949.