PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1947*
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No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 NEAR YOU-FRANCIS CRAIG-OCTOBER 2 CHI-BABA CHI-BABA (MY BAMBINO GO TO SLEEP)-PERRY COMO-July 3 BALLERINA-VAUGHN MONROE-December 4 SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! (THAT CIGARETTE)-TEX WILLIAMS-August 5 PEG O' MY HEART-HARMONICATS-July 6 HEARTACHES-TED WEEMS-April 7 OPEN THE DOOR,RICHARD!-COUNT BASIE-February 8 THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND-Woody Guthrie-July 9 MAM'SELLE-Frank Sinatra-May 10 MAM'SELLE-Art Lund-May 11 Linda-Ray Noble,Buddy Clark & Anita Gordon-May 12 That's My Desire-Frankie Laine,Mannie Klein's All Stars-October 13 Managua,Nicaragua-Freddy Martin-March 14 Near You-Andrew Sisters-November 15 Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her-You Can Have Her-She's Too Fat For Me)-Arthur Godfrey-December 16 Anniversary Song-Al Jolson-March 17 Mam'selle-Dick Haymes & Gordon Jenkins-May 18 When You Were Sweet Sixteen-Perry Como-September 19 Serenade Of The Bells-Sammy Kaye,Don Cornell & The Kaydets-January 20 Blue Moon Of Kentucky-Bill Monroe-July 21 Open The Door,Richard-Jack McVea-February 22 Golden Earrings-Peggy Lee-December 23 Peg O' My Heart-Buddy Clark-July 24 Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah-James Baskett-January 25 Huggin' And Chalkin'-Hoagy Carmichael-February 26 Call It Stormy Monday, But Tuesday Is Just As Bad-T-bone Walker-December 27 Manteca-Dizzy Gillespie-December 28 Peg O' My Heart-Three Suns-July 29 Open The Door,Richard-Dusty Fletcher-February 30 There's No Business Like Show Business-Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters-July 31 Managua,Nicaragua-Guy Lombardo & Don Rodney Trio-March 32 Temptation (Tim-tayshun)-Red Ingle & The Natural Seven, Jo Stafford-July 33 Anniversary Song-Dinah Shore-March 34 El Rancho Grande-Marisa Fiordaliso-July 35 Jumping With Symphony Sid-Lester Young & Sextet-March 36 Anniversary Song-Bing Crosby-October 37 Copacabana-Dick Farney-July 38 Serenade Of The Bells-Jo Stafford & Paul Weston Orchestra-January 39 Civilization (Bongo,Bongo,Bongo)-Louis Prima-December 40 Across The Alley From The Alamo-The Mills Brothers-July 41 Civilization (Bongo,Bongo,Bongo)-Andrew Sisters & Danny Kaye-December 42 Open The Door,Richard-Three Flames-February 43 I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)-Eddy Arnold-November 44 I Wish I Didn't Love You So-Vaughn Monroe-October 45 Since I Fell For You-Paul Gayten Trio-October 46 So Round,So Firm,So Fully Packed-Merle Travis-February 47 The Whiffenpoof Song-Bing Crosby & Fred Waring Glee Club-November 48 Time After Time-Frank Sinatra & Axel Stordahl Orchestra-July 49 I Wonder,I Wonder,I Wonder-Eddy Howard-July 50 I Wish I Didn't Love You So-Dick Haymes-November 51 How Are Things In Glocca Morra?-Dick Haymes-March 52 I Wish I Didn't Love You So-Betty Hutton-October 53 Anniversary Song-Guy Lombardo & Kenny Gardner-March 54 Valzer Delle Candele (Auld Lang Syne)-Carla Dupont-July 55 Nervos De Aco-Francisco Alves-July 56 Open The Door,Richard-Louis Jordan-February 57 Feudin' And Fightin'-Dorothy Shay 'The Park Avenue Hillbilly'-October 58 How Soon (Will I Be Seeing You)-Vaughn Monroe-October 59 New Pretty Blonde (Jole Blon)-Red Foley-January 60 Sugar Moon-Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys-July 61 Open The Door, Richard!-Charioteers & Mannie Klein Orchestra-March 62 Guilty-Margaret Whiting, Jerry Gray Orchestra-April 63 A Sunday Kind Of Love-Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra-June 64 Boogie Woogie Blue Plate-Louis Jordan-August 65 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons-Dinah Shore-January 66 Amado Mio-Mara Mauri-July 67 There! I've Said it Again-Nat King Cole-January 68 Asa Branca-Luiz Gonzaga-July 69 That's My Desire-Sammy Kaye Orchestra & Don Cornell-September 70 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now-Perry Como-October 71 Texas & Pacific-Louis Jordan-April 72 A Gal In Calico-Benny Goodman-February 73 Linda-Paul Weston Orchestra & Matt Dennis-April 74 My Adobe Hacienda-Eddy Howard-May 75 How Soon (Will I Be Seeing You)?-Jack Owens-December 76 I Wish I Didn't Love You So-Dick Farney, Paul Baron Orchestra-November 77 I Wanna Be Loved By You-Savannah Churchill-July 78 Anniversary Song-Tex Beneke,Garry Stevens & Glenn Miller Orchestra-March 79 Near You-Larry Green Trio-November 80 Melodie D'Amour-Henri Salvador-July *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA,UK and Australia). EDWARD FOOTE GARDNER TOP US SINGLES FOR 1947*