Billboard’s Top 30 hits for 1947

Francis Craig- near you

Hermonicats- peg o my heart

Ted Weems- Heartaches

Ray Noble & Buddy Clark- Linda

Tex Williams- smoke, smoke that cigarette

Vaughn Monroe- I wish I didnt love you so

Three suns- peg o my heart

Al Jolson- Anniversery song

Larry Green- near you

Sammy kaye- That’s My desire

Vaughn Monroe- Ballerina

Art Lund- Mam’selle

Freddy Martin- Managua Nicaragua

Perry Como- Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba

Red Ingle & Jo Stafford- Timtayshun

Ted Weems & Perry Como- I wonder whos kissing her now

Andrews Sisters- near you

Perry Como- When you were sweet sixteen

Jack Owens- How soon

Arthur Godfrey- Too Fat Polka

Eddy Howard- I wonder, I wonder, i wonder

Eddy Howard- My adobe Hacienda

Hoagy Carmichael- huggin and chalkin

Hoagy Carmichael- buttermilk sky

King Cole Trio- I love you for sentimental reasons

Dick Haymes- mam’selle

Vaughn Monroe- you do

Guy Lombardo- Anniversary Song

Bing Crosby- white Christmas

(found on the music trading message group TweedleeDumsDrive-In)

Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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