[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of June 19, 1943

#1 - “Taking a Chance on Love” - Benny Goodman, with Helen Forrest
#2 - “As Time Goes By” - Rudy Vallee
#3 - “Velvet Moon” - Harry James
#4 - “As Time Goes By” - Jacque Renard, with unknown vocalist
#5 - “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” - The Ink Spots
#6 – “You’ll Never Know” - Willie Kelly
#7 – “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” - Glen Gray, with Kenny Sargent
#8 – “Let’s Get Lost” - Vaughn Monroe
#9 - “All or Nothing At All” – Harry James, with Frank Sinatra
#10 – “Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer” - Song Spinners

This one will never make the top 10 but we can give it an honorable mention.

#19 – “The Sheik of Araby” - Spike Jones

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WLB Bans Strikes (Stark) – 2-3
211 Children Win War Essay Prizes – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Allies Hit Naples, Sicilian Airfields (Middleton) – 4
Nazis Halt Attack at Lost Orel Point – 4
Soviet Guns Have Edge on the Axis as Huge Duel is About to Start (Sulzberger) – 5
Guadalcanal Raid Damage Minor; 25 Americans Killed, 22 Missing (Shalett) – 6
Tokyo Diet Adopts Plan to Crush Us – 6-7
The Army Looses Parachutes of Destruction on Enemy (photo) – 7
New Plane Makes Debut in Pacific – 8
Attempting to Put One Over on the General (photo) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10

[iowamark]

Rudy Vallee was great, but Dooley Wilson will always own this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vThuwa5RZU