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Kay Kyser Recordings Listed on the Hit Parade Charts

Nineteen-forty was the first year of a list of hits on Hit Parade. Because of a national ban on recording from August 1942 to November 1944 and again in 1948, Kay Kyser was not allowed to make new commerical albums. The success of recordings made before 1940 is not reflected in the following list.

Real Audio clips of selected songs starring Kyser's band, are available. To hear them, simply click on the title of the song you want to view. You must have Real Player to hear them.

 

Year

Song

Position

Weeks

1940

Playmates

4

1

1940

Ferryboat Serenade

6

5

1941

Alexander the Swoose

3

3

1941

'Til Reveille

6

4

1942

White Cliffs of Dover

7

3

1942

A Zoot Suit

8

1

1942

Who Wouldn't Love You

2

22

1942

Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland

8

3

1942

Jingle, Jangle, Jingle

1

13

1942

He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings

2

11

1942

Strip Polka

5

3

1942

Praise the Lord and Pass the Amunition

2

13

1943

Let's Get Lost

4

5

1945

There Goes That Song Again

7

2

1945

Bell Bottom Trousers

5

6

1946

Ole Buttermilk Sky

1

13

1946

The Old Lamplighter

3

11

1947

Managua, Nicaragua

9

2

1948

Serenade of the Bells

13

1

1948

Wood Woodpecker Song

1

15

1948

On a Slow Boat to China

2

19

Source: Kimberly Kyser, Mortarboard Productions

 

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