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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of April 15, 1944

#1 - “Besame Mucho” – Jimmy Dorsey, with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
#2 - “Holiday for Strings” – David Rose
#3 - “It’s Love Love Love” - Guy Lombardo, with the Skip Nelson Trio
#4 - “When They Ask about You” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Kitty Kallen
#5 - “Mairzy Doats” – Merry Macs
#6 – “San Fernando Valley” - Bing Crosby
#7 – “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night” – Frank Sinatra
#8 - “Poinciana” – Bing Crosby
#9 – “Shoo Shoo Baby” - Andrews Sisters
#10 – “Do Nothin’ Till You Hear from Me” – Woody Herman

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Foe Flees to Fort – 2-3
Gen. Vatutin Dies, Liberator of Kiev – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Poet-Partisan from Vilna Ghetto Says Nazis Slew 77,000 of 80,000 (Parker) – 4
Kuban Cossacks (photo) – 4
Plane Base Struck – 5
Turkey Promises Full Material Aid – 5
Australians Take Madang Outpost – 6
Capital to Speed War-News Flow – 6
Tito Besieges Nazis in Bosnian Fortress; Foe is Trapped as Partisans Capture Cazin – 6
Group to Consider Army, Navy Merger – 6
Allied Base in India is Isolated; Foe is at Last Trail to Imphal – 7
A Tribute to the Men Who Died in the Attack on Palau (photo) – 8
Latest Casualties Reported by Army – 10
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 11-12