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Billboard Top Ten for the Week of October 28, 1944

#1 - “You Always Hurt the One You Love” – Mills Brothers
#2 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Dinah Shore
#3 - “Swinging on a Star” – Bing Crosby
#4– “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral” - Bing Crosby
#5 – “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t (Ma’ Baby)” – Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#6 - “Together” – Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest
#7 - “I’ll Walk Alone” – Mary Martin
#8 – “Till Then” – Mills Brothers
#9 – “I’ll Walk Alone” – Martha Tilton
#10 - “The Trolley Song” – Pied Pipers

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Dutch Base Seized (Middleton) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Russians Capture Ruthenian Capital – 4
Japan is Crippled (Horne, Shallet) – 5
Admiral Hints Foe Lost 3 Battleships (Teatsorth, Kluckhohn) – 5-6
Grew Calls Japan to Surrender Now – 6
Big Isle Below Luzon Won; Japanese on Leyte Routed (Parrott) – 7-8
A PT ‘Expendable’ Shows Up on Leyte (by Frank Hewlett) – 8
Leyte: Americans Landing and a Welcome by the Islanders (photos) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 10-12
King Promotes Brother in Army and Air Force – 12
Churchill Reveals 3-Power Talk Plan (by John MacCormac) – 12

[Tax-chick]

Three versions of “I’ll Walk Alone” in the top ten. That’s just boring!