Some songs are just plain huge. In the summer of 1945, four different versions of “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” hit the Billboard top ten. Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, and Judy Garland all went top ten with the song, but it was Johnny Mercer, who co-wrote the song, that took it to Number One in July 1945, where it spent seven weeks in the top spot.

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