[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of October 9, 1943

#1 - “Sunday Monday or Always” - Bing Crosby, with the Ken Darby Singers
#2 – “Paper Doll” - Mills Brothers
#3 - “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Al Dexter
#4 - “I Heard You Cried Last Night” - Harry James, with Helen Forrest
#5 – “You’ll Never Know” - Frank Sinatra, with the Bobby Tucker Singers
#6 - “In the Blue of the Evening” - Tommy Dorsey, with Frank Sinatra
#7 - “All or Nothing At All” – Harry James, with Frank Sinatra
#8 – “You’ll Never Know” - Dick Haymes, with the Song Spinners
#9 – “People Will Say We’re in Love” - Frank Sinatra, with the Bobby Tucker Singers
#10 - “Sunday Monday or Always” - Frank Sinatra

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Night Sea Battle (Kluckhohn) – 2
Somervell and Stilwell are in India to Help Mountbatten Plan Attack (Durdin) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
5th Army at River (Bracker) – 4-5
Pope Surrounded by Germans’ Guns (Brigham) – 5
Two Meetings Brought About by the War (photos) – 6
U.S. Planes Down 142 Nazis in Bremen-Vegesack Attack – 7
Fortress Escorts Punish Luftwaffe (Graham) – 7-8
Luftwaffe Hits London, U.S. Airmen Pound Germany (photos) – 8-9
Bridgehead Fight Rages at Dnieper – 10-11
Army Trucks on the ‘Highway to Victory’ (photo) – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 12-13

[Fiji Hill]

Notice that many of those songs have no instrumental accompaniment. The instrumentalists went on strike on August 1, 1942, and are still out.

[Fiji Hill]

This song probably won't make the Billboard Top 10:

United Nations Airman--Charlie & His Orchestra (1943)