White Christmas Anniversary
 

This week is the celebrated anniversary of the recording by Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' from the film/musical of the same name.

The record first appeared on the American Pop Charts this week (10th October 1942) and holds the world record for the weeks in the charts of any record ever produced.

The way the music industry structure has charged in the last few years I can't see this ever being beaten.

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I knew twas biggest selling record ever, but thought charts didn't start until 1952?:confused: Ahh thats British charts, billboard was 1940 first chart. just checked me Billboard Book that dont start until 1955, so thats me more confused.

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The American Charts started on the 27th of July in 1940 for 78's and 45's. The first number one was 'I'll Never Smile Again' by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers on vocals.

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Also this week it's 50 years since the Beatles first entered the charts with Love me do... seems like only yesterday!

BBC News - Chart attack: The Beatles' rivals in 1962

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Yeh realise twas 1940, The Billboard Book dont start until 1955 so that threw me big time.:confused:

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If you type into a search engine 'Billboard No 1s' a list comes up - click on 'List of number-one hits (United States)' and a Wikipedia page will give you all the number ones right up to date.

Also, if you have signed up to 'Google Apps' you can even look at copies of Billboard Magazine from 1942 onwards.

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Also, there is a website called 'Charts All Over The World' which is a cracker.

Click on USA and then click 'Billboard Single Charts this day 5-10-15-... 65 years age.'

This site is great - IMO.

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my mothers favourite record, and one of her favourite films .... grew up listening to her singing along wi bing ... and even now still has her christmas sing with bing LP ....

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I help to run our local community centre and in it we have a DVD projector which projects films onto the wall.

Last Christmas-time we showed 'White Christmas' and Disney's 'A Christmas Carol' (the Jim Carrey version) - and our biddies loved it.