Top R&B Songs of 1943 Greatest Hits and Chart Singles

as Al Dexter and His Troopers
[Okeh 6708]
written by Al Dexter

[Columbia 36668]
written by Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn

[Decca 18556]
written by Harry Warren, Mack Gordon & Dorothy Fern Norris

written by Johnny S. Black

[Decca 18561]
written by Jimmy Van Heusen & Johnny Burke

vocals by Eugenie Baird
[Decca 18567]
written by Harry Warren & Mack Gordon

[Decca 23277]
written by Al Dexter

vocals by Frank Sinatra
[Victor 201530]
written by Thomas Montgomery Adair & Alfonso D'Artega

vocals by Helen Forrest
written by Vernon Duke, John Latouche & Ted Fetter

written by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell

[Decca 18557]
written by Kim Gannon & Max Steiner

as Frank Sinatra & Harry James & His Orchestra
[Columbia 35587]
written by Arthur Altman & Jack Lawrence

instrumental
[Columbia 36651]
written by Ary Barroso & Bob Russell

[Capitol 143]
written by Phil Moore

vocals by Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers
[Victor 201522]
written by Bill Carey & Carl Fisher

vocal by Frank Munn; originally from 1931
written by Herman Hupfeld

Christmas
[Decca 18570]
written by Buck Ram, Kim Gannon & Walter Kent

vocals by Peggy Lee
written by Kansas Joe McCoy

[Victor 1519]
written by Cole Porter

instrumental
[Victor 26054]
written by Clarence "Pinetop" Smith

instrumental
[Victor 26610]
written by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell

vocals by Jimmy Mitchelle
[Bluebird 30-0813]
written by Jimmy Mitchell & Sammy Lowe

[Decca 18541]
written by Harold Arlen & Johnny Mercer

[Capitol 139]
written by Robert Scherman

written by Freddie Slack & Gay Jones

written by Ted Grouya & Jerry Kruger

instrumental B side to A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)
[Victor 20-1528]
written by Duke Ellington

written by Billy Kenny, Joe Myrow & Kim Gannon

[Savoy 102]
written by William Campbell

[instumental]
[Decca 18529]
written by Ernest Purce, Lucky Millinder & Prince Robinson

[Victor 20-1528]
written by Luther Henderson Jr. & Mercer Ellington

vocals by Buddy Johnson
written by Mike Jackson

[Decca 18547]
written by Edward Kennedy Ellington

[Bluebird 300815]
written by Kim Gannon & Max Steiner

written by Lionel Hampton & Benny Goodman

written by Jerry Bresler & Larry Wynn

vocals by Warren Evans
written by Buddy Johnson

instrumental US B side to Oh! Miss Jaxon
[Decca 18547]
written by Andy Gibson

[Decca 8644]
written by William Campbell

[Decca 4405]
written by Amos Easton

[Capitol 136]
written by Leon René

instrumental
[Columbia 36672]
written by Edgar De Lange & Josef Myrow

[Columbia 36675]
written by Joe Williams

as Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
instrumental
[Victor 201529]
written by George Gershwin

as Ella Fitzgerald and the Keys
written by Walter Donaldson

[Decca 4418]
written by Gus Johnson & John Tums

written by Casey Bill Weldon & Louis Jordan

[Decca 8651]
written by Sonny Boy Williams

R [new version]
written by Lionel Hampton & Benny Goodman

[Beacon 111]
written by William Campbell

written by Mike Jackson

written by Berkeley Graham & Carley Mills

instrumental
written by Harry James & Jack Matthias