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1942 HIT PARADE WINNERS
 FIRST PLACE SONGS  - (TOTAL WEEKS)

  WHITE CHRISTMAS                               (36)
      Irving Berlin
      Introduced by Bing Crosby in Paramount film: Holiday Inn
  I DON'T WANT TO WALK WITHOUT YOU              (12)
      Lyrics: Frank Loesser; Music: Jule Styne
      Introduced in Paramount film: Sweater Girl
  HE WEARS A PAIR  OF SILVER WINGS              (15)
      Eric Maschwitz and Michael Carr
  THERE ARE SUCH THINGS                         (18)
      Lyrics: Abel Baer and Stanley Adams; Music: George W. Meyer
  DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS                    (12)
      Lyrics: June Hershey; Music: Don Swander
  MY DEVOTION                                   (16)
      Roc Hillman and Johnny Nafton
  I'VE GOT A GAL IN KALAMAZOO                   (11)
      Lyrics: Mack Gordon; Music: Harry Warren
  JINGLE, JANGLE, JINGLE                        (14)
      Lyrics: Frank Loesser; Music: Joseph J. Lilley
      Introduced in the Non-Musical Film: Forest Rangers
  DON'T SIT UNDER THE APPLE TREE                (12)
      Lyrics: Lew Brown and Charles Tobias; Music: Sam Stept
      Introduced in the Musical Theatre: Yokel Boy
  ONE DOZEN ROSES                               (14)
      Lyrics: Roger Lewis, Country Washburn; 
      Music: Dick Jurgens, Walter Donavan
  BLUES IN THE NIGHT                            (13)
      Lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Music: Harold Arlen
      Introduced in the Musical Film: Blues in the Night
  SOMEBODY ELSE IS TAKING MY PLACE              (12)
      Bob Ellsworth, Richard Howard and Russ Morgan
      Introduced in the Musical Film: Strictly in the Groove
  SLEEPY LAGOON                                 (18)
      Lyrics: Jack Lawrence; Music: Eric Coates
      Written in 1930, revived in 1942


 SECOND PLACE SONGS  - (TOTAL WEEKS)

  PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION       (12)
      Frank Loesser
  BE CAREFUL, IT'S MY HEART                     (15)
      Irving Berlin
      Introduced in the Musical Film: Holiday Inn
  I LEFT MY HEART AT THE STAGE DOOR CANTEEN      (12)
      Irving Berlin
      Introduced in the Musical Theatre: This Is the Army
  MISTER FIVE BY FIVE                           (10)
      Don Raye, Gene De Paul
      Introduced in the Musical Film: Behind the Eight Ball
  TANGERINE                                     (13)
      Lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Music: Victor Schertzinger
      Introduced in the Musical Film: The Fleet's In
  WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON AGAIN                   (17)
      Bennie Benjamin, Sol Marcus, Edward Seiler
      Introduced in the film When the Lights Go On Again
  I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM                      (15)
      Lyrics: Mack Gordon; Music: Harry Warren
      Introduced in the Musical Film: Springtime in the Rockies
  JOHNNY DOUGHBOY FOUND A ROSE IN IRELAND       (16)
      Lyrics: Kay Twomey; Music: Allan Roberts
      Introduced in the film Johnny Doughboy
  ROSE O'DAY                                    (12)
      Al Lewis, Charles Tobias
  SKYLARK                                       (12)
      Lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Music: Hoagy Carmichael


 THIRD PLACE SONGS  - (TOTAL WEEKS)

  WHO WOULDN'T LOVE YOU                         (13)
      Lyrics: Bill Carey; Music: Carl Fischer
  MANHATTAN SERENADE                            (11)
      Lyrics: Harold Adamson; Music: Louis Alter
  WHY DON'T YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH ME            (15)
      Lyrics: Al Lewis; Music: Mabel Wayne
  DEARLY BELOVED                                (16)
      Lyrics: Johnny Mercer; Music: Jerome Kern
      Introduced in the Musical Film: You Were Never Lovelier
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