[Homer_J_Simpson]

The musicians strike must be over. Dick Haymes and the Song Spinners are nowhere to be seen. I suspect our new #10 is destined to work its way farther up the chart.

Billboard Top Ten for the Week of December 11, 1943

#1 – “Paper Doll” - Mills Brothers
#2 – “Pistol Packin’ Mama” - Bing Crosby, with the Andrews Sisters
#3 - “People Will Say We’re in Love” - Bing Crosby, with Trudy Erwin
#4 - “My Heart Tells Me” - Glen Gray, with Eugenie Baird
#5 - “Sunday Monday or Always” - Bing Crosby, with the Ken Darby Singers
#6 - “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin’” – Bing Crosby, with Trudy Erwin
#7 - “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old” - Jimmy Dorsey, with Kitty Kallen
#8 - “People Will Say We’re in Love” - Frank Sinatra, with the Bobby Tucker Singers
#9 – “Boogie Woogie” - Tommy Dorsey
#10 – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” - Bing Crosby

[Homer_J_Simpson]

U.S. Troops Score (Bracker) – 2-3
Italians in Action against Germans (Matthews) – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Sofia Rocked Anew (Middleton) – 4
Knox Holds Tokyo Afraid of People – 4
Roosevelt Acclaims Malta for Heroism in Bombings – 5-6
Znamenka Falls to Soviet Forces – 6-7
O’Hare Shot Down in the Pacific; Comrades Describe Night Fight – 8
Texts of Day’s War Communiques – 9-10