[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of May 1, 1943

#1 - “I’ve Heard That Song Before” – Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#2 – “Brazil” - Xavier Cugat
#3 – “That Old Black Magic” - Glenn Miller, with Skip Miller and the Modernaires
#4 - “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” - The Ink Spots
#5 - “As Time Goes By” - Jacque Renard, with unknown vocalist
#6 - “Velvet Moon” - Harry James
#7 – “It Started All Over Again” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra, Pied Pipers
#8 – “You’d be So Nice to Come Home To” - Dinah Shore
#9 - “As Time Goes By” - Rudy Vallee
#10 - “There Are Such Things” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The microfilm for May is fair to good for the most part but I sometimes struggled to get the correct type of paper for the printer. Today’s faint copy is an example of what happens when the wrong paper is used – HJS.

Lewis is Unshaken (by Joseph Shaplen, first-time contributor) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Tunisia Line Afire (Kluckhohn) – 4-5
Stalin Applauds Allies’ Aid; Sees 2d Front and Victory – 5
Yugoslavs Admit War on Partisans – 5
Text of Stalin’s May 1 Order of the Day – 6-7
Red Army Storms Key Kuban Points – 7
Japanese Submarines Attacking ‘In Force’ to East of Australia – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10
Tokyo Raiders Still Blasting At the Japanese (photo) – 10