VA - Americas Greatest Your Hit Parade Hits 1937 (2025)

One of Acrobat's most popular and successful series are the America's Greatest Hits collections - 4-CD sets featuring the biggest hits from the Billboard charts from 1940, when the Billboard record sales chart was launched, through to 1962. However, before the Billboard chart was first published, the popular US weekly radio show Your Hit Parade, sponsored by Lucky Strike, began producing a chart in 1935, which was sometimes a Top 10, sometimes a Top 15, so we decided to take the America's Greatest Hits format back into the Your Hit Parade era of the 1930s. This 74-track 3-CD collection comprises every record that featured in the Your Hit Parade chart during 1937, the first full year of the chart, apart from one of which we could not find a copy. There were many fewer records that made the chart in 1937 compared to 1936, so it all fits onto a 3-CD set. It was a very varied music landscape, with the big swing orchestras like Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman making their mark, though often with middle-of-the-road vocal performances rather than jazzy pieces, although there's plenty of hot stuff here too. Along with them are the big dance bands who were popular on radio, including g Guy Lombardo, Shep Fields and Eddy Duchin, competing with each other as they recorded the future classics of the Great American Songbook that were coming out of Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, plus some of the top singers of the era, Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire among them. It's an enjoyable and fascinating musical snapshot of the era, complete with a 12,000 word booklet with notes on each track, and full discographical and chart information.

Track List:

Disc 1
01 Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - In The Chapel In The Moonlight
02 Eddy Duchin & His Orch. - It's De-Lovely
03 Ray Noble & His Orchestra, Vocal: Al Bowlly - I've Got You Under My Skin
04 Bing Crosby - Pennies From Heaven
05 Eddy Duchin & His Orch. - I'll Sing You A Thousand Love Songs
06 Tommy Dorsey Orch. - I'm In A Dancing Mood
07 Jan Garber & His Orchestra - The Night Is Young And You Are So Beautiful
08 Ray Noble & His Orchestra, Vocal: Al Bowlly - Easy To Love
09 Vocal chorus by Bob Hannon - With Plenty Of Money And You (Oh! Baby, What I Couldn't Do
10 Benny Goodman - Goodnight My Love
11 Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - When My Dreamboat Comes Home
12 Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - There's Something In The Air
13 Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - Trust In Me
14 Benny Goodman - This Year's Kisses
15 Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians - Boo Hoo
16 Abe Lyman & His Californians - Little Old Lady
17 Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy - What Will I Tell My Heart
18 Ray Noble & His Orchestra - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
19 Fats Waller And His Rhythm - You're Laughing At Me
20 Mantovani & His Tipica Orchestra - Serenade In The Nlight
21 Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - Moonlight And Shadows
22 Music In The Russ Morgan Manner - When The Poppies Bloom Again
23 Bing Crosby - Too Marvellous For Words
24 Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra - Where Are You

Disc 2
01 Bing Crosby - Sweet Is The Word For You
02 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Vocals Carmen Lombardo - September In The Rain
03 Billie Holiday With Teddy Wilson & His Orch. - Carelessly
04 Jimmy Dorsey & His Orch. - The Love Bug Will Bite You
05 Bing Crosby - Never In A Million Years
06 Anson Weeks & His Orch. - How Could You
07 Teddy Wilson & His Orch. - There's A Lull In My Life
08 Bing Crosby - Blue Hawaii
09 Fred Astaire - Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
10 Bing Crosby - Sweet Leilani
11 Fred Astaire - They Can't Take That Away From Me
12 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Vocals Lebert Lombardo - It Looks Like Rain In Cherry Blossom Lane
13 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Vocals Carmen Lombardo - A Sailboat In The Moonlight
14 Music In The Russ Morgan Manner - The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
15 Frances Langford - Was It Rain
16 Dolly Dawn & Her Dawn Patrol - The You And Me That Used To Be
17 Hal Kemp & His Orch. - Where Or When
18 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Vocals Carmen Lombardo - I Know Now
19 Horace Heidt & His Brigadiers - Gone With The Wind
20 Kay Kyser & His Orchestra - Cause My Baby Says It's So
21 Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, Vocals Carmen Lombardo - So Rare
22 Bunny Berigan & His Orch. - The First Time I Saw You
23 Ted Fiorito & His Orch. - Tomorrow Is Another Day
24 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Satan Takes A Holiday

Disc 3
01 Music In The Russ Morgan Manner - Stop You're Breaking My Heart
02 Bob Crosby & His Orchestra - Whispers In The Dark
03 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - My Cabin Of Dreams
04 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Stardust On The Moon
05 Benny Goodman - Afraid To Dream
06 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Have You Got Any Castles, Baby
07 Shep Fields & His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra - That Old Feeling
08 Hudson-De Lange Orch. - Yours And Mine
09 Claude Thornhill & His Orch. - Harbour Lights
10 Bing Crosby - Remember Me
11 Bing Crosby - The Moon Got In My Eyes
12 Ozzie Nelson & His Orch - Roses In December
13 Bing Crosby - The One Rose (That's Left In My Heart)
14 Teddy Wilson & His Orch. - You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
15 Dick Robertson Orch. - Blossoms On Broadway
16 Rudy Vallee& His Connecticut Yankees - Vieni, Vieni
17 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - You And I Know
18 Russ Morgan & His Orch. - Farewell, My Love
19 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - If It's The Last Thing I Do
20 The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra - Once In A While
21 Bing Crosby - I Still Love To Kiss You Goodnight
22 Fred Astaire - Nice Work if You Can Get It
23 Bunny Berigan & His Orch - Ebb Tide
24 Bing Crosby - There's A Goldmine In The Sky
25 Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye - Rosalie
26 Larry Clinton & His Orchestra with Bea Wain - True Confessions