The Yearly GELT's TOP 1935

Gary Cooper & Kathleen Burke in The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer

Song of the year: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes performed by Irene Dunne in Roberta

Artist of the year : Billie Holiday

Born in Baltimore, the little Eleonora Fagan saw hardly ever her father who played jazz in nightclubs and escaped in the early morning whereas Sadie, her mother, lived on casual jobs entrusting most of the time her daughter to her family. She would keep from her childhood fearsome images as the sudden death of her grandmother while she held her in her arms or when she was raped by a pedophile uncle. Sadie eventually left Baltimore and took her daughter to live with her in New York. She was mostly raised in a brothel where her mother was working. The young Eleonora became familiar to this chaotic background over which prevailed the mob and where violence daily raged.

She even went to jail for a while. She moreover sometimes attended speakeasies, these backroom establishments where alcohol was drunk while listening to jazz musicians. It is in one of these places that she met Kenneth Hollon, a young saxophonist with whom she got a first hiring at the age 15. She took then Billie Holiday's stage name and did not delay coming across producer John Hammond who suggested her to perform a recording session in the Columbia studios together with a young promising clarinetist named Benny Goodman.

She received in return a meager $ 35 fee but this rather successful performance was soon worth to her singing with the band of Fletcher Henderson then beside Duke Ellington. She started at the same time an affair with saxophonist Ben Webster. 
In 1935, John Hammond was back to herfor a new series of recordings with Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson. Success did not delay, Miss Brown To You appearing among the best-selling records of the year.

#	Artist	Title	CT	VIDEO
1	Frances Langford	I'm In The Mood For Love  (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy  Fields/George Oppenheimer)
2	Teddy Wilson	Miss Brown To You feat.  Billie Holiday  (Richard A. Whiting/Ralph  Rainger/Leo Robin)
3	Benny Goodman	Eeny Meeny Miny Mo  feat.  Helen Ward  (Traditional)
4	Connee Boswell & Victor  Young Orchestra	Blue Moon  (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
5	Fred Astaire	No Strings  (Irving Berlin/Richard Rodgers)
6	Louis Prima & The New  Orleans Gang	Chasing Shadows  (Benny Davis/Oliver Silver)
7	Wini Shaw	Lullaby Of Broadway  (Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
8	Tommy Dorsey	Take Me Back My Boots  And Saddle feat. Cliff  Weston  (Teddy Powell/Walter  Samuels/Leonard Whitcup)
9	Alice Faye & Leo Reisman  Orchestra	According To The  Moonlight  (Jack Yellen/Herbert Magidson/J.  Meyer/W. Meyer)
10	Louis Armstrong	Thanks A Million   (Arthur Johnston/Gus Kahn)
11	Chick Webb	I'll Chase The Blues Away  feat. Ella Fitzgerald  (Edgar Sampson/Kenneth Harrison)
12	Wingy Manone	Black Coffee  (Al Hofman/Maurice Sigler/Al  Goodheart)
13	Mildred Bailey	When Day Is Done  (Robert Katscher/Buddy DeSilva)
14	Tommy Dorsey	Let It Be Me feat.  Edythe  Wright  (Alie Wrubel/Mort Dixon)
15	Fats Waller	I Believe In Miracles  (George W. Meyer/Pete  Wending/Sam M. Lewis)
16	Frances Langford with  Victor Young Orchestra	Was It Rain?  (Lou Handman)
17	Tommy Dorsey	I'm Shooting High feat.  Edythe Wright  (Jimmy McHugh/Ted Koehler)
18	Fred Astaire	Cheek To Cheek  (Irving Berlin)
19	Willy Briant	A Vipers Moan  (Willie Bryant)
20	Louis Prima & His New  Orleand Gang	The Lady In Red  (Mort Dixon/Ali Wrubel)
21	Bing Crosby	Red Sails In The Sunset  (Hugh Williams/Jimmy Kennedy)
22	Ginger Rogers	The Piccolino  (Irving Berlin)
23	Teddy Wilson & His  Orchestra	I Wished On The  Moon feat. Billie Holiday  (Dorothy Parker/Ralph Rainger)
24	Benny Goodman	Night Wind feat. Helen  Ward  (Bob Rothberg/Lew Pollack)
25	Bob Howard	Stay Out Of Love  (Horace Gerlach/E.P. La Ferniere)
26	Louis Armstrong	On Treasure Island  (Joe Burke/Edgar Leslie)
27	Ethel Merman	You're The Top  (Cole Porter)
28	The Mills Brothers	Sweet Lucy Brown  (Bernard Reed/Jesse Bolian)
29	Jimmie Lunceford	I'm Nuts About Screwy  Music  (Fred Rose)
30	Eddy Duchin	Lovely To Look At  (Jerome Kern/Dorothy  Fields/Jimmy McHugh)
31	Teddy Wilson	Yankee Doodle Never  Went To Town feat. Billie  Holiday  (Arthur Freed/Bernie Hanighen)
32	Wingy Manone	Let's Swing It  (Charles Tobias/Charles  Newman/Maurray Mencher)
33	Fats Waller	Lulu's Back In Town  (Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
34	Patsy Montana	I Want To Be A Cowboy's  Sweetheart  (Rubye Blevins)
35	Ozzie Nelson	And Then Some  (Tot Seymour/Vee Lanhurst)
36	Teddy Wilson & His  Orchestra	If You Were Mine feat.  Billie Holiday  (Johnny Mercer/Matty Malneck)
37	Bing Crosby	Easy To Remember  (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
38	Louis Armstrong	I'm In The Mood For Love  (Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy  Fields/George Oppenheimer)
39	Eddy Duchin	You Are My Lucky Star  feat. Lew Sherwood  (Nacio Herb Brown/Arthur Freed)
40	Gene Autry	Tumbling Tumbleweeds  (Bob Nolan)