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"Mule Train" by Frankie Laine
ending week: 1949-11-26 (total weeks: 1)
"Mule Train" is a popular song written by Johnny Lange, Hy Heath, and Fred Glickman. It is a novelty cowboy song, supposedly sung by an Old-West wagon driver spurring on his mules as he recites the...  [more]
"That Lucky Old Sun" by Frankie Laine
ending week: 1949-10-01 (total weeks: 1)
"That Lucky Old Sun" is a 1949 popular song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Like "Old Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life...  [more]
"You're Breaking My Heart" by Vic Damone
ending week: 1949-09-03 (total weeks: 1)
"You're Breaking My Heart" is a popular song. The song was published in 1948. Though credited to Pat Genaro and Sunny Skylar, the song is just an American version of the famous Italian song...  [more]
"Some Enchanted Evening" by Perry Como
ending week: 1949-07-30 (total weeks: 1)
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific . In the show, it is sung as a solo by Emile de Becque, the French plantation owner, who falls in...  [more]
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" by Vaughn Monroe
ending week: 1949-05-14 (total weeks: 1)
genre: country, western
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a country and cowboy-style song. It was written on June 5, 1948 by Stan Jones.. A number of versions were crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949....  [more]
"Cruising Down the River" by Blue Barron
ending week: 1949-03-12 (total weeks: 1)
Cruising Down the River is a 1949 popular recording song. Words and music were by Eily Beadell and Nell Tollerton, two middle-aged women who wrote the song in 1945. It became the winner of a...  [more]
"A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn Knight
ending week: 1949-01-22 (total weeks: 1)
"A Little Bird Told Me" is a popular song. It was written by Harvey O. Brooks and was published in 1947. In 2008, the song was used on a British commercial for Head & Shoulders. In 2009, the song...  [more]
"All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)" by Spike Jones
ending week: 1949-01-08 (total weeks: 1)
"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" is a novelty Christmas song written in 1944 by Donald Yetter Gardner (b. 20 August 1913, Portland, Pennsylvania – d. 15 September 2004, Brockton,...  [more]
"Buttons and Bows" by Dinah Shore
ending week: 1948-11-06 (total weeks: 1)
"Buttons and Bows" is a popular song. The music was written by Jay Livingston, the lyrics by Ray Evans. The song was published in 1947. The song appeared in the Bob Hope and Jane Russell movie The...  [more]
"A Tree in the Meadow" by Margaret Whiting
ending week: 1948-10-09 (total weeks: 1)
"A Tree in the Meadow" is a popular song. It was written by Billy Reid, and the song was published in 1948. The songwriter, orchestra leader Billy Reid, recorded the first version in the United...  [more]