13/08/2025
100 TOP HITS OF THE 40'S - VARIOUS ARTISTS
Format: 4CD
Cat No: NOT4CD0484
Barcode: 5060324800477
Released September 12th 2025 available from Amazon & all good records stores!! ⚡
There were so many great songs that provided the musical backdrop to the war-torn years of the 1940s.
Featured here on this 100 song 4CD collection are all of the biggest artist and songs from the Era, including:
Glenn Miller, Nat King Cole, Benny Goodman, The Ink Spots, The Andrews Sisters, Dinah Shore, Buddy Clark and many more
DISC ONE
In The Mood – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall – The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald
Swanee – Al Jolson
It’s Magic – Doris Day
Paper Doll – The Mills Brothers
All Of Me – Frank Sinatra
Pennsylvania Polka – The Andrews Sisters
Now Or Never – Billie Holiday
After You’ve Gone – Benny Goodman Sextet
Nature Boy – Nat King Cole
It’s Only A Paper Moon – Ella Fitzgerald
Alexander’s Ragtime Band – Bing Crosby & Al Jolson
It Could Happen To You – Jo Stafford
Caldonia – Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Stormy Weather – Lena Horne
‘A’ You’re Adorable – Perry Como
I Don’t Know Enough About You – Peggy Lee
You’ll Never Know – Dick Haymes
I’m Beginning To See The Light – Harry James & His Orchestra
That’s My Desire – Frankie Laine
Woody Woodpecker – Kay Kyser & Gloria Wood
Fools Rush In – Tony Martin
You’re Breaking My Heart – Vic Damone
There, I’ve Said It Again – Vaughn Monroe
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square – Anne Shelton
DISC TWO
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive – Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Sentimental Journey – Doris Day
(Get Your Kicks) On Route 66 – Nat King Cole
You Always Hurt The One You Love – The Mills Brothers
Blueberry Hill – Louis Armstrong
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller
Chatanooga Choo Choo – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
Rum And Coca-Cola – The Andrews Sisters
Civilisation – Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters
How Are Things In Glocca Mora – Dick Haymes
Mañana – Peggy Lee
That Lucky Old Sun – Frankie Laine
Skylark – Harry James & Helen Forrest
The Wedding Samba – Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra
Love Somebody – Buddy Clark & Doris Day
We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me) – The Ink Spots
Personality – Johnny Mercer
The Trolley Song – Judy Garland
On A Slow Boat To China – Harry Babbitt, Gloria Wood & Kay Kyser
Mairzy Doats – The Merry Macs
I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm – Les Brown & His Orchestra
Flying Home – Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra
Buttons And Bows – Dinah Shore
On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Peggy Lee Benny Goodman
Pennsylvania – 6-5000 – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
DISC THREE
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Peggy Lee
Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Louis Jordan
What A Difference A Day Made – Sarah Vaughan
Take The ‘A’ Train – Duke Ellington Orchestra
How High The Moon – Ella Fitzgerald
Dancing In The Dark – Artie Shaw
You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart – Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong
Don’t Fence Me In – Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
Chica Chica Boom Chic – Carmen Miranda
Five Minutes More – Frank Sinatra
Blues In The Night – Dinah Shore
Confess – Doris Day & Buddy Clark
Moppin’ And Boppin’ – Fats Waller
Tuxedo Junction – Glenn Miller & His Orchestr
Dry Bones – Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians
Don’t Smoke In Bed – Peggy Lee With Dave Barbour
Chi Baba Chi Baba – Perry Como
Daddy – Sammy Kaye
Sleepy Lagoon – Harry James
Ballerina – Vaughn Monroe
Dream – The Pied Pipers
California, Here I Come – Al Jolson
Pistol Packin’ Mama – Bing Crosby
Bless You (For Being An Angel) – The Ink Spots
There’s No Business Like Show Business – Ethel Merman
DISC FOUR
It Only Happens When I Dance With You – Fred Astaire
Swinging On A Star – Bing Crosby
Stardust – Artie Shaw
American Patrol – Glenn Miller
I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire – The Ink Spots1
Holiday For Strings – David Rose & His Orchestra
Come To Baby, Do! – Doris Day & Les Brown
If I Loved You – Perry Como
I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) – Carmen Miranda
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky – Vaughn Monroe
Hold Me – Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
Long Ago (And Far Away) – Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes
Slipping Around – Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
On The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe – Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers
Fine Brown Frame – Nellie Lutcher
Opus One – Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
The Golden Wedding – Woody Herman & His Orchestra
I Had The Craziest Dream – Helen Forest & Harry James
Golden Earrings – Peggy Lee & Dave Barbour
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle – Hary Babbitt with Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
(All I Want For Christmas Is) My Two Front Teeth – Spike Jones
Prisoner Of Love – Perry Como
I’ll Never Smile Again – Frank Sinatra
I’ll Be Seeing You – Bing Crosby
The White Cliffs of Dover – Vera Lynn
