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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of January 8, 1944

#1 – “Paper Doll” - Mills Brothers
#2 - “My Heart Tells Me” - Glen Gray, with Eugenie Baird
#3 - “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Kitty Kallen
#4 - “Star Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
#5 – “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Ella Mae Morse, with orchestra
#6 - “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’” – Bing Crosby, with Trudy Erwin
#7 - “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Al Dexter
#8 – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” - Bing Crosby
#9 - “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Andrews Sisters
#10 – “Oklahoma” cast album - Broadway cast of Oklahoma

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New Drive Opened (Lawrence) – 2-3
Bag 42 Nazi Planes (Middleton) – 3-4
Flying Fortresses Winging Along over the Sea (photo) – 4
Russians Throng Huge Moscow Cathedral for Christmas Day Religious Services – 4
San Vittore Taken in American Drive (Bracker) – 5
San Vittore Won in Battle to Death (Packard) – 5-6
Nazis Say Allies Invade Yugoslavia – 6
War News Summarized – 6
Tito Expelled from Banja Luka by Strong Nazi Reinforcements – 7
Knox Says Fleet of Japan is Brave – 7
5 Axis Ships are Sunk in Aegean as Allied Bombers Resume Task (Sedgwick) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10
That Christmas Necktie Problem Bobs Up in Bougainville (photo) – 10