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Interesting. Can the rest of the world say something - this is too much about the states 90.11.55.73 10:55, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Glenn Miller's "In The Mood"

For what I can say, discogs.com is RIGHT. The Bluebird 78RPM was INDEED issued in 1939 and not 1940! Thus Glenn Miller's rendition of the tune must appear here too, next to Andy Razaf's. On the 1940 page, having the tune as a "top hit" is right too, as it took some time until the tune charted properly. But first issue was in 1939. ref: http://www.discogs.com/release/1088170 -andy 84.149.77.250 (talk) 03:30, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's 1939 hit, continued into 1940, so I gave it full credit, but it remains here 1940 has it's own hits Tillywilly17 (talk) 21:33, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Blues R&B African-American Negroes Colored you get the point - Under represented on these pages-let's fix it

Billboard didn't start Harlem Hit Parade till late 1942, but that didn't stop us on Country music, so let's fill in the blanks. I got all the R&B from Whitburn's charts, (starting point), but he ignored Robert Johnson, no problem. If anybody reads this and into R&B, help out if you can, at least point out good sources and give advice. We have to stick to page format, so to elaborate on songs and artists on our list, we use links. Will need help on recording info for small indy blues labels. Here is sample for 1939 so far

Rank	Artist	Title	Label	Recorded	Released	Chart Positions
38	The Ink Spots	""If I Didn't Care"	Decca 2286	January 12, 1939 (1939-01-12)	February 9, 1939 (1939-02-09)	US BB 1939 #38, US #2 for 1 week, 9 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1987, National Recording Registry 2017
42	The Ink Spots	""My Prayer"	Decca 2790	September 18, 1939 (1939-09-18)	October 1939 (1939-10)	US BB 1939 #42, US #3 for 1 week, 12 total weeks

Top blues records

"Po' Gal" – Zora Neale Hurston
"Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay" – Blind Boy Fuller
"Negro Sinful Songs" – Lead Belly
- "The Bourgeois Blues"
- "De Kalb Blues"
- "The Gallis Pole"
"Thinking My Blues Away" – Sonny Boy Williamson

List_of_1930s_jazz_standards#1939

RACE 1939

1939_012 Ink Spots If I Didn't Care 2 1 9 Decca 2286 Jack Lawrence 1939/01/12

1939_016 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (Hep-Hep) The Jumpin' Jive 2 4 12 Vocalion 5005 Calloway, Froeba, Palmer 1939/07/17 1939/08/15

1939_030 Ink Spots Address Unknown 1 1 9 Decca 2707 Carmen Lombardo, Dedette Hill, Johnny Marks 1939/08/17

1939_034 Ink Spots My Prayer 3 1 12 Decca 2790 Jimmy Kennedy, George Boulanger 1939/09/18

1939_102 Fats Waller Good for Nothin' but Love 7 1 6

1939_116 Ella Fitzgerald (Chick Webb Orchestra) F.D.R. Jones 8 1 6 1938/11/26

1939_120 Ella Fitzgerald (Chick Webb Orchestra) Undecided 8 1 4

1939_138 Ella Fitzgerald I Want the Waiter (With the Water) 9 1 3

1939_153 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra Wizzin' the Wiz 10 1 5

1939_155 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra When the Saints Go Marching In 10 1 4 Decca 2230 traditional 1938/05/13 1939/04/01

1939_160 Mills Brothers Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart) 10 1 2

1939_174 Count Basie and His Orchestra Jumpin' At The Woodside 11 1 4 1938/12/17

1939_176 Fats Waller Hold Tight 11 1 4

1939_178 Eddie DeLange What This Country Needs is Foo' 11 1 3

1939_218 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra West End Blues 13 1 1 Decca 2480 Joe Oliver-Louis Armstrong-Spencer Williams 1939/04/05 1939/06/17

1939_219 Mildred Bailey Blame it on My Last Affair 13 1 1

1939_220 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra The Ghost of Smokey Joe 13 1 1

1939_245 Ella Fitzgerald (Chick Webb Orchestra) Chew, Chew, Chew (Your Bubble Gum) 14 1 1

1939_270 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra The Jumpin' Jive 15 1 1

1939_284 Count Basie & His Orchestra And the Angels Sing 16 1 2

1939_287 Billie Holiday Strange Fruit 16 1 2 Commodore 526

1939_295 Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra Do You Wanna Jump, Cuillun? 16 1 1

1939_319 Ella Fitzgerald (Chick Webb Orchestra) T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) 19 1 1

1939_c066 Robert Johnson Love in Vain Blues 14 1 7 Vocalion 04630 Robert Johnson 1937/06/20 1939/02/14 1939/03/10

1939_c068 Robert Johnson Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) 17 1 5 Vocalion 04630 1936/11/27 1939/02/14 1939/03/10

1939_c069 LeadBelly (Huddie Ledbetter) The Boll Weevil 17 1 3 Musicraft 226 1939/04/01 1939/06/06 1939/07/01

1939_c071 LeadBelly (Huddie Ledbetter) The Gallis Pole 19 1 1 Musicraft 227 Huddie Ledbetter 1939/06/14 1939/08/26 1939/09/23

1939_c073 LeadBelly (Huddie Ledbetter) The Bourgeois Blues 20 1 1 Musicraft 227 - 1939/04/01 1939/08/26 1939/09/23 Tillywilly17 (talk) 21:30, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Check out "Race and Blues Hits 1939" for errors and need your opinionsTillywilly17 (talk) 10:48, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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