1952

=**1952**=
 * __Number Ones: __**
 * You Belong to Me ** - Jo Stafford [Columbia 4-39811] (King, Price, Stewart) First recorded by Sue Thompson [Mercury 6407], then by Patti Page [Mercury 5899-X45] and soon after by Joni James. Other versions by Dean Martin, R&B by the Orioles
 * Wheel of Fortune - **Kay Starr [Capitol F1964] (Benjamin, Weiss) First recorded by Johnny Hartman [‘51, RCA Victor 20-4349], followed by Eddie Wilcox with Sunny Gale. Bobby Wayne, Bell Sisters,
 * I Went to Your Wedding ** - Patti Page [Mercury 5899-X45] (Jessie Mae Robinson) Steve Gibson and the Original Red Caps, featuring Damita Jo, recorded the song first [6/2/52, released July] and it was covered by Page [rec. 8/6]. There was a country hit version by Hank Snow, R&B versions by Hadda Brooks and Florence Wright, and a parody by Spike Jones.
 * Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart ** - Vera Lynn [London 451227] (Sexton, Storch, Turner) German song by Rudi Schuricke [‘51, Polydor] Eddy Howard, the Ames Brothers, Guy Lombardo, Les Baxter
 * Kiss of Fire ** - Georgia Gibbs [Mercury 5823-X45] (Allen, Hill) Argentine tango ‘El Choclo’, introduced in 1903 by its writer, Angel Villoldo, recorded by him in 1907. Recorded by the Brazilian Francisco Carlos in the 1940s as ‘Aventureira’. Tony Martin, Toni Arden, Billy Eckstine, Louis Armstrong, Guy Lombardo
 * Why Don’t You Believe Me ** - Joni James [MGM K11333] (Douglas, Laney, Rodde) Patti Page
 * Blue Tango **- Leroy Anderson [Decca 9-27875] (Anderson) Hugo Winterhalter, Guy Lombardo, Les Baxter
 * The Glow-Worm **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Mills Brothers [Decca 9-28384] (Lincke, Mercer, Robinson) German song ‘Glühwürsche Idyll’ from 1902 Paul Lyncke operetta //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lysistrata, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">sung by Caecilie Carola, Emma Malkowsky, and Kathi Herold. An English version appeared in the 1908 Broadway show //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Girl Behind the Counter, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">sung by May Naudain //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lucy Isabel Marsh [‘08, Columbia 3791], the Victor Orchestra [Victor 5408], Elise Stevenson [‘09, Victor 5657], Prince’s Orchestra [‘09, Columbia A-711], the Vienna Quartet [‘10, Victor 16503]. Lyrics updated in 1952 by Johnny Mercer, who also charted with it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Half As Much **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Rosemary Clooney [Columbia 4-39710] (Curley Williams) Originally by Curley Williams & his Georgia Peach Pickers [‘51, Columbia 20879], it was a country hit for Hank Williams [MGM K11202]. Also by Guy Lombardo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Here in My Heart **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Al Martino [BBS 101] (Borrelli, Genaro, Levinson) Vic Damone, Tony Bennett
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Slow Poke **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Pee Wee King, featuring Redd Stewart [RCA Victor 48-0489] (King, Price, Stewart) Ralph Flanagan, Helen O’Connell, Arthur Godfrey, Roberta Lee, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Tiny Hill
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">It’s In the Book //**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Johnny Stanley (Standley, Thorsen) //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Jimmy Boyd [Columbia 4-39871] (Connor) Spike Jones, Molly Bee
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Wish You Were Here **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Eddie Fisher [RCA Victor 47-4830] (Rome) Jane Froman, Guy Lombardo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Delicado **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Percy Faith [Columbia 4-39708] (Azevedo, Lawrence) 1950 Brazilian song by Waldir Aleve e sue Conjunto [Continental]. Stan Kenton, Ralph Flanagan, Dinah Shore
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">A Guy is a Guy **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Doris Day [Columbia 4-39673] (Oscar Brand) ‘A Knave is a Knave’, written in 1719 by bawdy English poet and musician Thomas D’Urfey. Recorded by Oscar Brand as ‘A Gob Is a Slob’ [‘49, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads vol. 2 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">]
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Number Twos: __**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tell Me Why **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Four Aces featuring Al Alberts [Decca 9-27860] (Alberts, Gold) Eddie Fisher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Rosemary Clooney [Columbia 4-39767] (Astore, Morbelli, Stanley) Italian song by Alberto Retaliate [‘40], in film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Una Famiglia Impossibile. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Any Time **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Eddie Fisher [RCA Victor 47-4359] (Lawson) Written in 1921and later recorded by Happy Lawson [’25, Gennett 3108]. Several versions by Emmett Miller [‘24, Okeh 40239; ‘28 Okeh 41095; ‘36 Bluebird 6577]; country hit for Eddy Arnold [‘48, RCA Victor 2700] (Note: Miller also recorded ‘Lovesick Blues’[‘25, Okeh 40465, and ‘28, Okeh 41062])
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Little White Cloud That Cried //**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - [Okeh 4-6840] Johnny Ray & the Four Lads (Ray) //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">At Last **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Ray Anthony, featuring Tommy Mercer (Gordon, Warren) According to Rypens, it was introduced as an instrumental in the 1941 film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sun Valley Serenade, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">featuring Glenn Miller. At any rate, it was performed by Miller, featuring Ray Eberle, in the 1942 film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Orchestra Wives, //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">and recorded by them [‘42, Victor 27934].
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Tiger Rag **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Les Paul & Mary Ford [Capitol F1920] (DeCosta, Edwards, LaRocca, Ragas, Sbarbaro, Shields) Original Dixieland Jazz Band [‘18, Victor 18472], Ethel Waters [‘22, Black Swan 10073]], Ted Lewis [‘23, Columbia 3813 and ‘27, Columbia 770], the Mills Brothers [‘31, Brunswick 6197], Louis Armstrong [’30, instrumental Okeh 8800, and ‘32, vocal ‘New Tiger Rag’ Okeh 41557], Ray Noble featuring Al Bowlly [‘34, Victor 24577]
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Top Fives __**
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Blacksmith Blues //**//<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Ella Mae Morse [Capitol F1922] (Holmes) //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Jambalaya **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Jo Stafford [Columbia 4-39838] (Williams) Country hit for Hank Williams [MGM K11283]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I’m Yours **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Eddie Fisher [RCA Victor 47-4680] (Mellin) Don Cornell, Four Aces, Toni Arden
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Maybe **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Perry Como & Eddie Fisher [RCA Victor 47-4744] (Flynn, Madden) 1940 song by the Ink Spots [Decca 3258], Dinah Shore, Bobby Byrne.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lover **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Peggy Lee & Gordon Jenkins [Decca 9-28215] (Hart, Rodgers) Sung by Jeannette McDonald in the 1933 film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Love Me Tonight //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">. Recorded by Paul Whiteman, featuring Jack Fulton [Victor 24283], Guy Lombardo [Brunswick 6535], and Greta Keller, and in 1948 by Les Paul [Capitol 15037]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Walkin’ My Baby Back Home **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Johnnie Ray [Columbia 4-39750] (Ahlert, Turk) Recorded in 1930 by Tom Barratt, then in November by the Foursome [’31, Brunswick 4996], in January by the Ted Wallace Orchestra, under several different releases and aliases, then in Feb. by the Charleston Chasers [Columbia 2404, as the Johnny Walker Orchestra], Lee Morse [Columbia 2417], the two most popular versions by Ted Weems, featuring Parker Gibbs [Victor 22637] and Nick Lucas [Brunswick 6048] and in April by Louis Armstrong [Okeh 41497]. Also in ‘52 by Nat ‘King’ Cole & Billy May
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Guy Mitchell [Columbia 4-39663] (Merrill)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I Should Care **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Ralph Flanagan, featuring Harry Prime [RCA Victor 47-4885] (Cahn, Stordahl, Weston) Sung by Robert Allen in 1945 film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Thrill of a Romance. //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Recorded by Frank Sinatra with the Alex Stordahl Orchestra [Columbia 36791], Tommy Dorsey, featuring Bonnie Lou Williams [Victor 20-1625], Martha Tilton with the Eddie Miller Orchestra [Capitol 184], Jimmy Dorsey, featuring Teddy Walters [Decca 18656]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Frankie Laine [Columbia 4-39770] (Tiomkin, Washington) Title song to Gary Cooper film. Also charted for Tex Ritter, who sang it in the film.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Meet Mister Callaghan **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Les Paul [Capitol F2193] (Spear) Written in 1952 in honor of the Peter Cheyney fictional detective Slim Callaghan. The song seems to have been used as the title song of the 1954 (British?) film. Also by Harry Grove Trio, Mitch Miller, Carmen Cavallaro
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I’ll Walk Alone **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> - Don Cornell [Coral 9-60659] (Cahn, Styne) Sung by Dinah Shore in the 1944 film //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">With a Song in My Heart //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">, a hit for her [Victor 20-1586] as well as for Martha Tilton [Capitol 157], Mary Martin [Decca 23340] and Louis Prima, featuring Lily Ann Carol [Hit 7083]. Also charted in ‘52 for Jane Froman, Richard Hayes, Margaret Whiting
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Top Tens __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Please Mr. Sun **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lady Of Spain **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dance Me Loose **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Hambone **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bermuda **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Because You’re Mine **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Trying **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Forgive Me **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Takes Two to Tango **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Perfidia **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Be My Life’s Companion **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sugarbush **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Yours **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Be Anything (But Be Mine) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Drigo
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Somewhere Along the Way **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Here Am I - Broken Hearted **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Outside of Heaven **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Indian Love Call **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Vanessa **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Come What May **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Once in Awhile **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Should I **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ay-round the Corner (Bee-hind the Bush) **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Comes A-long A-love **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The Night Before Christmas Song **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">That’s the Chance You Take **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">As Time Goes By **