1947 Across the Alley From the Alamo

After Graduation Day

Ain’t Nobody Here But

Us Chickens

Almost Like Being in Love

And Mimi

Anniversary Song, The

Apple Blossom Wedding, An

April Showers

As Long As I’m Dreaming

At the Candlelight Café

Ballerina

Best Things in Life Are Free, The

Bloop-Bleep

Blow Top Blues

Body and Soul

Boogie Woogie Blue Plate

Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba

Christmas Song, The

Civilization

(Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

Come to the Mardi Gras

Curiosity

Dark Town Poker Club, The

Don’t You Love Me Anymore?

Dream Again

Dreams Are a Dime a Dozen

Early Autumn

Easter Parade

Echo Said “No,” The

Egg and I, The

Feudin’ and Fightin’

Free Eats

Fun and Fancy Free

1947 [ cont’d ] Gal in Calico, A

Gentleman Is a Dope, The

Girl That I Marry, The

Golden Earrings

Hand in Hand

Heartaches

Hi Ho Trailus Boot Whip

His Feet Too Big for De Bed

Hoodle-Addle

How Are Things in Glocca Mora?

How Soon (Will I Be Seeing You)

Huggin’ and Chalkin’

I Ain’t Mad At You

(You Ain’t Mad At Me)

I Do Do Do Like You

I Never Knew

I Still Get Jealous

I Tipped My Hat

(and Slowly Rode Away)

I Want to Be Loved

I Wish I Didn’t Love You So

I Wonder, I Wonder, I Wonder

I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now

I’ll Close My Eyes

I’ll Dance At Your Wedding

I’ll Hate Myself in the Morning

I’m So Right Tonight

In a Little Book Shop

It Takes a Long, Long Train

with a Red Caboose

(to Carry My Blues Away)

It’s Dreamtime

It’s the Same Old Dream

Ivy

1947 [ cont’d ] Jack, You’re Dead

Jalousie (Jealousy)

Je Vous Aime

Kate (Have I Come

Too Early Too Late)

Kokomo, Indiana

Lady From 29 Palms, The

Linda

Little Old Mill (Went

Round and Round), The

Love and the Weather

Love for Love

Mam’selle

Managua, Nicaragua

Mickey

Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed

My Adobe Hacienda

My Heart Is a Hobo

My Melancholy Baby

Near You

Oh, But I Do

Old Devil Moon

On the Avenue

On the Old Spanish Trail

One o'Clock Boogie

Open the Door, Richard

Pancho Maximillian Hernandeez

(The Best President

We Ever Had)

Peg o’My Heart

Peggy O’Neil

Preacher and the Bear, The

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

Red Silk Stockings and

Green Perfume, The

1947 [ cont’d ] Red Wing

Roses in the Rain

Santa Catalina

(Island of Romance)

Secretary Song, The

Serenade of the Bells

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!

(That Cigarette)

Stanley Steamer, The

Stella By Starlight

Sugar Blues

Sunday Kind of Love, A

Tallahassee

Texas and Pacific

That’s My Desire

That’s What I Like About the South

There’ll Be Some Changes Made

Those Things Money Can’t Buy

Tomorrow

Tune for Humming, A

Violets

When Am I Gonna Kiss You

Good Morning?

When You Were Sweet Sixteen

Whistler, The

White Christmas

Wildest Gal in Town, The

Winter Wonderland

Wyoming, (Oh Why, Oh Why,

Did I Ever Leave)

You Can’t See the Sun

When You’re Cryin’

You Do

You’re Not Easy to Forget

Your Red Wagon

Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

1948 Airizay

All I Want for Christmas

(Is My Two Front Teeth)

At the Flying “W”

Baby Don’t Be Mad At Me

Baby Face

Ballerina

Bedelia

Beg Your Pardon

Best Things in Life Are Free, The

Better Luck Next Time

Beyond the Sea

Blue and Sentimental

Blue Shadows On the Trail

Bluebird of Happiness

Bye Bye Blackbird

Claire de Lune

Completely Yours

Cool Water

Corabelle, (I’m a-Comin,

I’m a-Courtin’)

Dainty Brenda Lee

Deck of Cards

Dickey-Bird Song, The

Don’t Call It Love

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

Dreamy Lullaby

Ev’ry Day I Love You

(Just a Little Bit More)

Everything I Have Is Yours

Far Cry

For Every Man There’s a Woman

Gabriel’s Heater

Give Me the Good Old Days

1948 Hair of Gold, Eyes of Blue

Hankerin’

Haunted Heart

Hindustan

How High the Moon

I Love You, Yes I Do

I Never Loved Anyone

I Told Ya I Love Ya,

Now Get Out

I’ll Get Along Somehow

I’m Looking Over

a Four-Leaf Clover

I’m My Own Grandmaw

I’m My Own Grandpaw

I’ve Got My Love to

Keep Me Warm

In My Dreams

Inner Spectrum

Intrigue

It’s a Most Unusual Day

It’s Magic

It’s the Sentimental Thing to Do

Just Because

Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)

Lonely Woman

Maharajah of Magador, The

Man Could Be a Wonderful

Thing, A

Maria From Bahia

Matinee

Melody Time

Meadowlands

Moonlight Whispers

1948 New Look, The

Now Is the Hour

(Maori Farewell Song)

Ok’l Baby Dok’l

Old Master Painter, The

On a Slow Boat to China

On Green Dolphin Street

Passing Fancy

Put ‘em in a Box

Rambling Rose

Robbins Nest

Run, Joe

Sabre Dance

Sabre Dance Boogie

Same Old Cry, The

Saturday Date

Saxa-Boogie

September in the Rain

Serenade (Music Played

On a Heartstring)

Serenade of the Bells

Sierra Madre, (The Treasure of)

So Tired

Sooner Or Later

Sophisticated Lady

St. Louis Blues March

Strawberry Moon (in a

Blueberry Sky), A

Suspicion

Tacos, Enchiladas and Beans

Tell Me a Story

That Feathery Feelin’

Thoughtless

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

1948 [ cont’d ] Tree in the Meadow, A

True

Twelfth Street Rag

Until

Warsaw Concerto

What Do I Have to Do

(To Make You Love Me)

William Tell Overture

Woody Woodpecker

You Came a Long Way

From St. Louis

You Started Something

You Were Meant for Me

You Were Only Fooling

1949 “A” You’re Adorable

(The Alphabet Song)

Again

Ave Maria

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Bali Ha’I

Barroom Polka

Beautiful Eyes

Bella Bella Marie

Bewildered

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Blue Christmas

Blue Moon

Blue Skirt Waltz, The

Body and Soul

Candy Kisses

Caravan

Careless Hands

Charley My Boy

Congratulations

Cruising Down the River

(On a Sunday Afternoon)

Crying

Cuanto le Gusta

Dance of the Hours

Dearie

Deep Purple

Did You See Jackie Robinson

Hit That Ball?

Dime a Dozen

Don’t Cry, Joe (Let Her Go,

Let Her Go, Let Her Go)

Doo De Doo On An Old Kazoo

Down By the Station

1949 Dreamer’s Holiday, A

Echoes

Everywhere You Go

Fool’s Paradise

Forever and Ever

Four Winds and the Seven Seas, The

Give Me Your Hand

Grieving for You

Here I’ll Stay

Homework

Hop-Scotch Polka

(Scotch Hot), The

Hot Canary, The

Hucklebuck, The

I Can Dream, Can’t I

I Don’t See Me in Your

Eyes Anymore

I Know, I Know, I Know

I Never See Maggie Alone

I Wanna Go Home

I’ll Always Love You

I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch

of Coconuts

I’ve Got My Love to

Keep Me Warm

If I Ever Love Again

In a Little Spanish Town

It’s a Big, Wide, Wonderful World

It’s Like Taking Candy

From a Baby

It’s Too Late Now

Jealous Heart

Johnson Rag

Just One Way to Say I Love You

1949 Kiss Me Sweet

Lady of Spain

Last Mile Home, The

Let’s Take An Old-Fashioned Walk

Lingering Down the Lane

Lord’s Prayer, The

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me

Maybe It’s Because

Merry-Go-Round Waltz

Mule Train

My Hero

Need You

Old Master Painter, The

Once and For Always

Powder Your Face with Sunshine

Pussy Cat Song (Nyow!

Nyot! Nyow!), The

Ragtime Cowboy Joe

Reckon I’m in Love

Red Head

Red Roses for a Blue Lady

Riders in the Sky

(A Cowboy Legend)

Room Full of Roses

Saturday Night Fish Fry

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

So in Love

Some Enchanted Evening

Someday

Somehow

Sunflower

Sweet Sue, Just You

Tell Me Why

1949 [ cont’d ] That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls

Around Heaven All Day)

That’s My Weakness Now

There’s Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes

This Can’t Be Love

Toot-Toot-Tootsie (Good-Bye)

Twenty-Four Hours of Sunshine

Vienu Su (Say You Love Me Too)

Whispering Hope

Whose Girl Are You

Ya Wanna Buy a Bunny?

You, You, You Are the One

You’re Breaking My Heart

Younger Than Springtime

1950 All My Love

American Beauty Rose

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Bamboo

Beloved, Be Faithful

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Blind Date

Bonaparte’s Retreat

Bushel and a Peck, A

Can Anyone Explain?

(No! No! No!)

Careless Kisses

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

Chinese Mule Train

Count Every Star

Deadly Weapon

Dear Hearts and Gentle People

Dearie

Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later

Than You Think)

Fairy Tales

Half a Heart Is All You Left Me

Harbor Lights

Hoop-Dee-Doo

I Cross My Fingers

I Wanna Be Loved

I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles

If I Knew You Were Comin’

I’d’ve Baked a Cake

If You’ve Got the Money,

I’ve Got the Time

It Isn’t Fair

Johnson Rag

1950 Joshua

La Vie en Rose

Merry Christmas Polka

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Mona Lisa

Music! Music! Music!

My Foolish Heart

Nevertheless (I’m in Love

with You)

No Other Love

Nola

Oh, Babe!

Old Piano Roll Blues, The

On the Outgoing Tide

Orange Colored Sky

Our Lady of Fatima

Our Little Ranch House

Penny a Kiss, A

Petite Waltz (La Petite Valse), The

Play a Simple Melody

Rag Mop

Red We Want Is the Red

We’ve Got (in the Old Red,

White & Blue), The

Roses

Scarlet Ribbons (for Her Hair)

Sentimental Me

Sitting By the Window

Sometime

Stars and Stripes Forever, The

Strange Little Girl, A

Tennessee Waltz, The

Thanks, Mister Florist

Thing, The

1950 [ cont’d ] Third Man Theme, The

Tiddley Winkie Woo

To Think You’ve Chosen Me

Tzena Tzena Tzena

Wanderin’

We’ll Build a Bungalow

Wedding Samba, The

What Will I Tell My Heart

You Dreamer, You

You’re Just in Love

1951 Aba Daba Honeymoon, The

Across the Wide Missouri

And So to Sleep Again

Be My Love

Because of You

Blues

Castle Rock

Charmaine

Chicken Song (I Ain’t Gonna

Take It Settin’ Down), The

Cold, Cold Heart

Cry

Down Yonder

Frosty the Snowman

Gambella (The Gamblin’ Lady)

Get Out Those Old Records

Gone Fishin’

Hello, Young Lovers

Hey, Good Lookin’

Hot Rod Race

I Apologize

I Get Ideas, (When We

Are Dancing)

I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat

I’m Waiting Just for You

If

In the Cool, Cool, Cool

of the Evening

It Is No Secret

It’s Beginning to Look

a Lot Like Christmas

Kiss to Build a Dream On, A

Kissing Bug Boogie

Laura

1951 Let Me In

Longing for You

Marshmallow World, A

Meanderin’

Mockin’ Bird Hill

Morning Side of the Mountain, The

Musicians, The

My Truly, Truly Fair

Never Been Kissed

Night Is Young and You’re

So Beautiful, The

Old Soldiers Never Die

On Top of Old Smoky

Once Upon a Nickel

Pretty-Eyed Baby

Rollin’ Stone

Rose, Rose, I Love You

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer

September Song

Shanghai

Shrimp Boats

Sin (It’s No Sin)

Slow Poke

So Long (It’s Been Good

to Know You)

Somebody

Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant)

Tennessee Waltz

There’s a Big Blue Cloud

(Next to Heaven)

There’s No Boat Like a Rowboat

These Things I Offer You

(for a Lifetime)

Undecided

1951 [ cont’d ] Vanity

Velvet Lips

Wang Wang Blues

With All My Heart and Soul

Would I Love You

(Love You, Love You)

1952 A-Round the Corner

As Time Goes By

At Last

Auf Wiederseh’n, Sweetheart

Be Anything (But Be Mine)

Be My Life’s Companion

Bermuda

Blue Tango

Bunny Hop, The

Charmaine

Crazy Heart

Dance Me Loose

Delicado

Don’t Let the Stars

Get in Your Eyes

Doodletown Fifers

Early Autumn

Glow-Worm, The

Greyhound

Half As Much

Hambone

Heartbreaker

I Don’t Want to Take That Chance

I Saw Mommy Kissing

Santa Claus

I Should Care

Idaho State Fair

It’s in the Book

It’s Worth Any Price You Pay

Jambalaya

Junco Partner

Keep It a Secret

Kiss of Fire

Lady Love

1952 [ cont’d ] Lazy River

Lies

Love Me, Love Me

Mademoiselle

Marilyn

Maybe

Meet Mister Callaghan

Mountain Laurel

My Little Nest of Heavenly Blue

My Love and Devotion

Night Train

Nina Never Knew

Noodlin’ Rag

One Little Candle

One-Mint Julep

Please, Mr. Sun

Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Slow Poke

Stolen Love

Takes Two to Tango

To Be Loved By You

To Know You (Is to Love You)

Tonight We’re Setting the

Woods On Fire

Tulips and Heather

Walkin’ My Baby Back Home

Walkin’ to Missouri

Watermelon Weather

When It’s Sleepy Time Down South

Winter Wonderland

Wish You Were Here

Wishin’

You

You Belong to Me

1953 A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E

And the Bull Walked Around,

Olay

April in Portugal

(The Whisp’ring Serenade)

Boo-Dah

Can’t I?

Caravan

Show, Willy

Coquette

Crazy, Man, Crazy

Dragnet

Dummy Song, The

Fool Such As I, (Now and Then

There’s a)

Gomen-Nasai (Forgive Me)

Here’s to the Ladies

Ho Ho Song, The

Hot Toddy

Hush-a-Bye

I Don’t Know

I Laugh to Keep From Crying

I Went to Your Wedding

I’ll Be Hangin’ Around

I’ll Never Say “Never Again”

Again

In the Mission of St. Augustine

Into Each Life Some

Rain Must Fall

John, John, John (Every Tom, Dick

and Harry’s Called John)

Jones Boy, The

Just Another Polka

Love Every Moment You Live

1953 Lover, Come Back to Me

Midnight Sleighride

Moon Is Blue, The

Most Beautiful Girl in

the World, The

No Moon At All

O Mein Papa (Oh! My Papa)

Oh Happy Day

On the Trail

Pretend

Re-enlistment Blues

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

Ruby

Satin Doll

Say “Si Si”

Send My Baby Back to Me

Shane (The Call of the

Far-Away Hills)

Sittin’ in the Sun

(Countin’ My Money)

Skirts

South of the Border

(Down Mexico Way)

St. Louis Blues

Strange Things Are Happening

(Ho, Ho, Hee, Hee, Ha, Ha)

Stranger in Paradise

Summer Is Gone

That’s Amore

Thunderbird

Till I Waltz Again with You

Tipica Serenade

Train, Train, Train

Twice As Much

Warsaw Concerto

1953 Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Wild Horses

Winter

Without My Lover

You’ll Never Know

1954 16 Men Swinging

Angela Mia

Creep, The

Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight

Hernando’s Hideaway

Home for the Holidays,

(There’s No Place Like)

Honeymoon’s Over, The

How Blue?

I Went Out of My Way

I’d Cry Like a Baby

Indiscretion

Lonesome Polecat

Lost in Loveliness

Make Love to Me!

Melancholy Me

Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket

Mr. Sandman

My Friend the Ghost

Papa Loves Mambo

Secret Love

Sh-Boom

She Was Five and He Was Ten

Sisters

Skokiaan (South African Song)

Softly with Feeling

St. Louis Blues Mambo

Stardust Mambo

Sway (Quien Sera)

Sylvie

Teach Me Tonight

Thank You for Calling

They Were Doin’ the Mambo

1954 Things I Didn’t Do, The

Till We Two Are One

Whispering

You Didn’t Want Me When You

Had Me (So Why Do You

Want Me Now)

Young At Heart

Your Heart, My Heart

Source Acknowledgement

“The Billboard Cavalcade of Juke Box Hits: 1938 to 1948,”

Billboard Juke Box Supplement, Jan. 22, 1949, p.74+.

Popa Family Collection.

“’Stardust’ No. 1 Song,” Billboard, Apr. 12, 1941, p.4+.

“Ten Years of Publisher Song Hits,” Billboard, Dec. 13, 1947, p.19+.

Joel Whitburn. Joel Whitburn’s Pop Memories 1890-1954:

The History of American Popular Music (Menomonee Falls, WI:

Record Research Inc., 1986).

Image Attribution

The “Old Pops” Collection, Arts and Music, Harold Washington

Library Center, Chicago Public Library

Popa Family Collection