[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of July 26, 1941

#1 - “Daddy” - Sammy Kaye, with the Kaye Choir
#2 - “Maria Elena” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#3 – “Green Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell
#4 - “The Hut-Sut Song” – Horace Heidt, with Donna & her Don Juans
#5 – “The Hut-Sut Song” – Freddy Martin, With Eddie Stone
#6 - “Yes Indeed!” - Tommy Dorsey, with Jo Stafford and Sy Oliver
#7 - “Yours” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly
#8 - “Goodbye Dear, I’ll be Back in a Year” – Horace Heidt, with Ronnie Kemper and Donna Wood
#9 - “’Til Reveille” - Kay Kyser, with Harry, Ginny, Jack, & Max
#10 - “My Sister And I” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Vast Trade Curbed – 2-3
Freezing Statement’s Text – 2
The International Situation – 3
Soviet Hits Back – 4
Japanese Bitter Over U.S. Stand – 5
Plan to Go Denied by Japanese Envoy – 5
Berlin is Raided; Other Cities Hit – 6
1,000 Nazi Experts Wait to Take Over Russia; Rosenberg is Slated to Administer Areas – 6
A U.S. ‘Flying Fortress’ Joins the British Assault on Nazi-Held Territory on the Continent (photos) – 7-8
Nazi Spearheads Hit by Russians – 8-9
Swiss See Wide Aid in Nazi Trade Deal – 9
Vichy Announces Pact with Japan – 9
Nazis Charge U.S. with Imperialism – 10
Anxious Japanese on West Coast Form Long Lines at Bank Windows – 10
Insignia of United States Civilian Defense Workers – 11
Japan Gets in Position (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13-14
Tokyo Will Begin Troop Landings – 14
Price of Gasoline Increased in France – 14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

To read about a small but intense battle you probably never heard of check out the link on yesterday's thread. (See reply #21.) Notice the numbers of the opposing forces and compare to the casualties on both sides. That little island was an expensive piece of real estate.

Thanks for the contributions, Viiksitimali.

[ex-snook]

It was interesting to read your posts today and see the songs that were the hits. I remember them well but the war articles were as new to me. I was 15 that summer. Perhaps as parallel to today that just shows the interests of teens. Music was all that mattered. In spite of discussions by our elders, the war, soon to visit us at Pearl Harbor, was very remote. I played baseball for the town, our coach/manager sang all the words of Maria Elena at every game. We knew the words to all the hits, today I would not even attempt that. Today it seems more solo dance than sing along, although the big band era was in full swing. Anyway thanks for all your efforts to highlight this era. A country that remembers the past is ready for the future.