PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1938*
https://playback.fm/year/1938 No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 BEGIN THE BEGUINE-ARTIE SHAW-OCTOBER 2 BEI MIR BIST DU SCHOEN-ANDREWS SISTERS-February 3 A TISKET A TASKET-ELLA FITZGERALD & CHICK WEBB-September 4 THANKS FOR THE MEMORY-BOB HOPE & SHIRLEY ROSS-January 5 WABASH CANNONBALL-ROY ACUFF-December 6 CHANGE PARTNERS-FRED ASTAIRE-October 7 DON'T BE THAT WAY-BENNY GOODMAN-June 8 I CAN'T GET STARTED-Bunny Berigan-July 9 I'VE GOT A POCKETFUL OF DREAMS-Bing Crosby-October 10 YOU MUST HAVE BEEN A BEAUTIFUL BABY-Bing Crosby-December 11 Heart And Soul-Larry Clinton-November 12 Alexander's Ragtime Band-Bing Crosby & Connee Boswel-October 13 Music, Maestro, Please-Edythe Wright & Tommy Dorsey-July 14 Whistle While You Work-Seven Dwarfs-March 15 My Reverie-Larry Clinton-November 16 Nice Work If You Can Get It-Fred Astaire-January 17 Jeepers Creepers-Paula Kelly & Al Donohue-December 18 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart-Duke Ellington-July 19 Alexander's Ragtime Band-The Boswell Sisters-October 20 They Say-Artie Shaw & Helen Forrest-December 21 Summertime-Sidney Bechet-July 22 My Heart Belongs To Daddy-Mary Martin-December 23 Cathedral In The Pines-Jerry Steward & Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra-June 24 Boogie Woogie-Tommy Dorsey-November 25 Cry,Baby,Cry-Larry Clinton-June 26 Lula Mae-Tampa Red-July 27 Two Sleepy People-Fats Waller-December 28 Jumpin' At The Woodside-Count Basie-December 29 Goin' Down in Galilee-Kokomo-July 30 Je Chante-Charles Trenet-July 31 Pastorinhas-Silvio Caldas-July 32 Short'nin' Bread-The Andrews Sisters-April 33 You Go To My Head-Larry Clinton-September 34 Ti-Pi-Tin-Lysbeth Hughes & Horace Heidt-April 35 The Umbrella Man-Ginny Simms,Harry Babbitt & Kay Kyser-February 36 September Song-Walter Huston-December 37 I've Got a Pocketful of Dreams-Russ Morgan-October 38 Any Old Time-Artie Shaw-July 39 Now It Can Be Told-Jack Leonard & Tommy Dorsey-August 40 Mexicali Rose-Bing Crosby-December 41 I Don't Do Things Like That-Tommy Trinder-July 42 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen-Louis Armstrong-July 43 Ti-Pi-Tin-Guy Lombardo-April 44 My Own-Edythe Wright & Tommy Dorsey-November 45 So Help Me-Mildred Bailey-November 46 Love Walked In-Kenny Baker-May 47 I'm Gonna Lock My Heart-Billie Holiday=September 48 Deep Purple-Jimmy Dorsey-December 49 Camisa Listada-Carmen Miranda-July 50 Always And Always-Bea Wain & Larry Clinton Orchestra-April 51 Change Partners-Jimmy Dorsey-October 52 Love Walked In-Tommy Ryan & Sammy Kaye Orchestra-May 53 Adagio For Strings-Arturo Toscanini-July 54 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart-Martha Tilton-July 55 Fascinating Rhythm-Sol Hoopii-April 56 Please Be Kind-Mildred Bailey & Red Norvo-May 57 I Won't Tell A Soul (I Love You)-Pha Terrell & Andy Kirk-December 58 You're A Sweetheart-Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol-January 59 Whistle While You Work-Bob Goday & Shep Fields & his Rippling Rhythm Orchestra-March 60 Alexander's Ragtime Band-Ray Noble-October *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA and UK).