Some of you may know this as the closing theme to Die Hard. And that’s okay. Die Hard is a Christmas movie, after all.
Vaughn Monroe took this to the top of the charts in late January, 1946, a month after Christmas. This is a live version from a couple of decades later.
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Christmas is next week, right?
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I think the whole world has gone bananas. Partially because we don’t learn from history.
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I love history.
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I love history.
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History is interesting.
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When South Park is hitting it hard, it’s hilarious.
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Continuing to play catchup on the number one hits of the 1940s, this Tuesday offering is one we missed from September 1940. Part of the problem, as mentioned before, was the incomplete charts. Then there’s the fact that in those early years, there were two or three charts (Billboard adjusted stuff a lot in those days) that were equally considered. This one didn’t hit the top of the Best Sellers chart, but was top of the Juke Box Record Buying Guide chart.
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If things have been difficult, and it seems life is spiraling out of control, there’s always hope.
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I love Weird Al, even when I don’t particularly love who he’s parodying. Mostly because he does them better than they do them.
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Never really got into George Thorogood. Now, I know to some, that’s blasphemy, but ol’ George just never did it for me. I’ll accept that I’m in the minority and learn to live with it.
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As we continue the catch-up of number one hits of the Big Band era, making corrections and clarifications along the way (because I previously used an incomplete source for my information), we come to another chart topper that didn’t top the charts.
This one did top the Record Buying Guide charts (Billboard’s Jukebox chart, which was the official chart for most of 1940), though it only peaked at number 6 on the Best Sellers (generally considered today as the official chart of the era). Still, a chart topper is a chart topper, and usually means a good song. A popular one, no doubt, since it topped the Juke Box Buying Guide.
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The chart information is from Billboard magazine, as compiled by Record Research. Chart data is copyright 1939-1954, BPI Communications.
I do so love history.
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I love Weird Al.
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