{"product_id":"americas-greatest-hits-1945-various-americas-greatest-hits-1945","title":"Americas Greatest Hits 1945 \/ Various- America's Greatest Hits 1945 (CD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe continue our popular and successful series devoted to the biggest chart records of each calendar year in the early chart era as we focus on 1945, the fifth full calendar year of the Billboard Best Sellers chart - the chart was launched in July 1940 - and the first year to feature a Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. This great value 94-track 4-CD set comprises every record which peaked in the Top 10 of the Best Sellers chart during the year, plus those which entered the Top 10 in the final weeks of the year. For reasons of space, it excludes those records were still in the chart at the start of the year, but which peaked in the Top 10 in 1944, and so are included in our existing 1944 collection. It was another vintage year for Bing Crosby, who had 9 hits during the year, while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six. Johnny Mercer had three No. 1s, one with Jo Stafford, and Doris Day made her chart debut with two No. 1s. Others who featured at No.1 were The Andrews Sisters, Vaughn Monroe, Perry Como, Harry James, Sammy Kaye and Freddy Martin, while there were also many highly collectable lesser-known records by some artists we don't hear too much about these days. It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII came to a close, celebrated by a number of both sentimental and celebratory hits. It includes a 12,000+ word booklet with a commentary on every record as well as full discographical and chart information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohnny Mercer ; the Pied Pipers - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSammy Kaye ; His Orch with Billy Williams - Don't Fence Me in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKay Kyser ; His Orchestra with Georgia Carroll - There Goes That\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKate Smith - Don't Fence Me in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpike Jones ; His City Slickers with Carl Grayson - Cocktails for Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank Sinatra - I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerry Como - I Dream of You\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtie Shaw ; His Orchestra - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBing Crosby ; Andrews Sisters - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHorace Heidt ; His Musical Knights - Don't Fence Me in 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarry James ; His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - I'm Beginning to See 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank Sinatra - Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrankie Carle ; His Orchestra with Paul Allen - a Little on the Lonely 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbe Lyman ; His Orchestra with Rose Blane - Rum and Coca-Cola 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVaughn Monroe ; His Orchestra - Rum and Coca-Cola 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJo Stafford, Johnny Mercer ; the Pied Pipers - Candy 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGertrude Niesen - I Wanna Get Married 1\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuke Ellington with His Famous Orchestra with Joya Sherrill - I'm Beginning to See the Light 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePied Pipers with Paul Weston ; His Orchestra - Dream 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLes Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - My Dreams Are Getting Better 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Phil Moore Four - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLes Brown Orchestra with Doris Day - Sentimental Journey 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - a Little on the Lonely Side 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVaughn Monroe ; His Orchestra - There! I've Said It Again 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBing Crosby - Just a Prayer Away 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohnny Long ; His Orchestra ; Dick Robertson - My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetty Hutton - Stuff Like That There 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoody Herman ; His Orchestra - Laura 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDinah Shore - Candy 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSammy Kaye ; His Orch with Billy Williams - Just a Prayer Away 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpike Jones ; His City Slickers with Red Ingle - Chloe 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElla Fitzgerald ; Ink Spots - I'm Beginning to See the Light 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoody Herman ; His Orchestra - Caldonia 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFreddy Martin ; His Orchestra - Laura 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTony Pastor ; His Orchestra with Ruth McCullough - Bell Bottom 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDick Haymes - Laura 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharlie Spivak ; His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders - You Belong to 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLouis Jordan and His Tympani Five - Caldonia 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrank Sinatra - Dream 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBing Crosby ; Xavier Cugat ; His Orchestra - You Belong to My 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohnnie Johnston - Laura 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHal McIntyre ; His Orchestra - Sentimental Journey 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKay Kyser ; His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLouis Prima ; His Orchestra - Bell Bottom Trousers 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuy Lombardo ; His Royal Canadians with Jimmy Brown - Bell Bottom 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMerry Macs - Sentimental Journey 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBenny Goodman ; His Orchestra - Gotta Be This or That (Pt. 1) 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarmen Cavallaro ; His Orchestra - Chopin's Polonaise 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohnny Mercer ; the Pied Pipers - on the Atchison Topeka ; Santa 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMills Brothers - I Wish 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLucky Millinder ; His Orchestra with Wynonie Harris - Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerry Como - If I Loved You 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBing Crosby - on the Atchison Topeka ; Santa Fe 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJerry Colonna - Bell Bottom Trousers 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStan Kenton ; His Orchestra with June Christy - Tampico 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra with the Sentimentalists - on the 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSammy Kaye ; His Orch with Billy Williams ; Nancy Norman - Good Good Good (That's You-That's You) 5\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerry Como - Till the End of Time 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePerry Como - I'm Gonna Love That Gal 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDick Haymes - I Wish I Knew 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTommy Dorsey ; His Orchestra - Boogie Woogie 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDinah Shore - Along the Navajo Trail 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHarry James and His Orchestra with Kitty Kallen - 11:60 PM 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDick Haymes - Till the End of Time 6\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBing Crosby ; 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