PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1946*
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No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 PRISONER OF LOVE-PERRY COMO-JUNE 2 FIVE MINUTES MORE-FRANK SINATRA-September 3 TO EACH HIS OWN-THE INK SPOTS-September 4 SYMPHONY-FREDDY MARTIN ORCHESTRA & CLYDE ROGERS-January 5 THE GYPSY-THE INK SPOTS-June 6 LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!-VAUGHN MONROE-February 7 TO EACH HIS OWN-FREDDY MARTIN & STUART WADE-September 8 PERSONALITY-Johnny Mercer & Pied Pipers-March 9 RUMORS ARE FLYING-Frankie Carle Orchestra & Marjorie Hughes-November 10 THE CHRISTMAS SONG (CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE)-Nat King Cole-December 11 The Old Lamplighter-Sammy Kaye & Billy Williams-December 12 To Each His Own-Eddy Howard-August 13 (I Love You)For Sentimental Reasons-King Cole Trio-December 14 Doctor,Lawyer,Indian Chief-Betty Hutton-March 15 I'm A Big Girl Now-Sammy Kaye-May 16 Ole Buttermilk Sky-Kay Kyser Orchestra-December 17 Oh! What it Seemed To Be-Frankie Carle & Marjorie Hughes-March 18 They Say It's Wonderful-Perry Como-July 19 Sioux City Sue-Bing Crosby & The Jesters-May 20 Oh! What It Seemed To Be-Frank Sinatra-March 21 Surrender-Perry Como-August 22 Beyond The Sea (La Mer)-Charles Trenet-July 23 Symphony-Bing Crosby-February 24 You Keep Coming Back Like A Song-Bing Crosby & John Scott Trotter Orchestra-December 25 Laughing On The Outside-Sammy Kaye & Billy Williams-May 26 Five Minutes More-Tex Benke & Glenn Miller Orchestra-September 27 You Keep Coming Back Like A Song-Dinah Shore-November 28 Round About Midnight-Thelonious Monk-July 29 Prisoner Of Love-Ink Spots-June 30 Ole Buttermilk Sky-Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley-January 31 South America,Take It Away-Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters-September 32 Choo Choo Ch'boogie-Louis Jordan-September 33 They Say It's Wonderful-Bing Crosby & Jay Blackton Orchestra-July 34 The Gypsy-Dinah Shore-July 35 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah-Johnny Mercer,Paul Weston Orchestra & Pied Pipers-January 36 (Get Your Kicks) On Route 66-King Cole Trio-August 37 Bumble Boogie-Freddy Martin-May 38 I Can't Begin To Tell You-Harry James Ruth Haag (Betty Grable)-January 39 Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy-Stan Kenton & June Christy-March 40 Petit Papa Noel-Tino Rossi-July 41 Mcnamara's Band-Bing Crosby,Jesters,Bob Haggart Orchestra-March 42 Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens-Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five-December 43 Night in Tunisia-Dizzy Gillespie-July 44 De Conversa Em Conversa-Isaura Garcia & Os Namorados Da Lua-July 45 Symphony-Benny Goodman & Liza Morrow-January 46 The Coffee Song-Frank Sinatra-November 47 Ornothology-Charlie Parker-July 48 To Each His Own-The Modernaires & Paula Kelly-September 49 I'm Always Chasing Rainbows-Perry Como & Satisfiers-February 50 You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)-Les Brown Orchestra & Doris Day-April 51 They Say It's Wonderful-Frank Sinatra & Axel Stordahl Orchestra-July 52 Doin' What Comes Naturally-Freddy Martin,Glenn Hughes & Martin Men-July 53 The House I Live In-Frank Sinatra-January 54 Hamp's Walkin' Boogie-Lionel Hampton-July 55 South America,Take It Away-Xavier Cugat & Buddy Clark-September 56 Laughing On The Outside (Crying On The Inside)-Dinah Shore, Sonny Burke Orchestra-May 57 (Get Your Kicks) On Route 66-Bing Crosby,Andrews Sisters & Vic Schoen Orchestra-August 58 Guitar Polka-Al Dexter & The Troopers-March 59 Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop-Lionel Hampton-June 60 New Spanish Two Step-Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys,Tommy Duncan-July 61 Divorce Me COD-Merle Travis-July 62 Hawaiian War Chant(Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai)-Spike Jones-July 63 Stone Cold Dead In The Market (He Had It Coming)-Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan-July 64 Nuages-Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli-July 65 Baiao-4 Ases & Um Coringa-July 66 Doin' What Comes Naturally-Dinah Shore & Spade Cooley-July 67 That's Alright Mama-Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup-July 68 Christmas Island-Andrews Sisters And Guy Lombardo Orchestra-December 69 Let The Good Times Roll-Louis Jordan-November 70 Chickery Chick-Carroll Gibbons-January 71 Jole Blon-Harry Choates-July 72 Amazing Grace-Dixie Hummingbirds-July 73 If You Could See Me Now-Sarah Vaughan-July 74 To Each His Own-Tony Martin-September 75 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons-Eddy Howard Orchestra-December 76 The Old Lamplighter-Kay Kyser & Michael Douglas-December 77 One-zy, Two-zy (I Love You-zy)-Phil Harris Orchestra-April 78 I Got The Sun In The Morning-Les Brown Orchestra & Doris Day-July 79 The Gypsy-Sammy Kaye & Mary Marlow-July 80 Mensagem-Isaura Garcia-July *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA,UK and Australia).