[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of March 4, 1944

#1 - “Besame Mucho” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
#2 - “My Heart Tells Me” - Glen Gray, with Eugenie Baird
#3 - “Mairzy Doats” – Merry Macs
#4 – “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Ella Mae Morse, with orchestra
#5 – “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Andrews Sisters
#6 - “Star Eyes” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
#7 - “Holiday for Strings” – David Rose
#8 – “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night” – Frank Sinatra
#9 – “Mairzy Doats” – Al Trace, with Red Maddox
#10 - “Speak Low” – Guy Lombardo, with Billy Leach

[Homer_J_Simpson]

P-38’s over Capital (Denny) – 2-3
Major Beckham, American Ace, is Missing after Battle with Foe Planes over Germany – 3
War News Summarized – 3
U.S. Planes Strike at Rome; Blast Rail Yards, Airports (Bracker) – 4-5
Six-Ton ‘Factory-Busting’ Bombs Now Used for Special RAF Blows – 5
Sforza for Fiume as Seat of League (Sulzberger) – 6-7
Allied Wounded Being Moved to Hospital Ship in Anzio Harbor (photo) – 6
Russians Advance, but Nazis Stiffen – 7-8
Paramushiru Hit by Our 13th Blow – 8
Chinese in Burma Keep Up Advance – 9
Enemy Base 1,300 Miles from Tokyo Blasted by American Planes (photo) – 9
Invasion Materiel: U.S. Supplies Amassed in England to Smash ‘Fortress Europe’ (photos) – 10-12
Latest War Casualties in the Army and Navy – 14
Deal for Italian Ships (Baldwin) – 15
Post-War Jobs, Public Debt and Taxes Chief Worries of Voters, Gallup Poll Finds (Gallup) – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 16-17
President Names 70 for Promotion – 17
Roosevelt Links Pipeline to Needs – 17

[Tax-chick]

Not much variety in the musical tastes ... two versions of “Shoo Shoo Baby” and two versions of “Mairzy Doats.” People say contemporary music is mindless, but “Mairzy Doats” and “Besame Mucho” are right up there.