The Yearly GELT's TOP 1944

Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson & Robert Mitchum in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Mervin LeRoy, 1944)

Musical of the year: Meet Me In St Louis

Directed by Vincente Minelli and starring Judy Garland whom he will soon after marry in real life, Meet Me In St Louis is regarded as the first movie of the new golden age of Hollywood musicals. The plot takes place in 1904 in St. Louis on the eve of the World’s Fair and tells the story of a well-to-do family living in the city for many decades that sees its future darken when the father announces that they will have to move to New York where he was promoted. Nostalgic and sentimental melodrama, this moving comedy shot in Technicolor for MGM was the great hit movie of the year but mainly remained to posterity for the Trolley Song, an iconic track which remains with Over The Rainbow Judy Garland’s most famous performances.

#	Artist	Title	CT	VIDEO
1	Judy Garland	The Trolley Song   (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane)
2	The Andrews Sisters	Shoo Shoo Baby  (Phil, Moore)
3	Jo Stafford	Long Ago And Far Away   (Jerome Kent/Ira Gershwin)
4	Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink  Spots	I'm Making Believe  (James V. Monaco/Mack Gordon)
5	Dick Haymes & Helen  Forrest	It Had To Be You   (Isham Jones/Gus Kahn)
6	Dinah Shore	I'll Walk Alone  (Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn)
7	Erskine Hawkins	Cherry feat. Jimmy Mitchelle  (Don Redman)
8	Louis Jordan	G.I. Jive  (Johnny Mercer)
9	Bing Crosby & The Andrews  Sisters	Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma'  Baby)  (Louis Jordan/Billy Austin)
10	Frank Sinatra	I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last  Night   (Jimmy McHugh/Harold Adamson)
11	Andy Russell	Amor  (Gabriel Ruiz)
12	Jo Stafford	I Love You  (Cole Porter)
13	Betty Hutton	Stuff Like That There  (Jay Livingston/Ray Evans)
14	Bing Crosby	Swinging On A Star  (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke)
15	Helen Forrest	Time Waits For No One  (Cliff Friend/Charles Tobias)
16	Dinah Shore	Speak Low  (Ogden Nash/Kurt Weill)
17	The Merry Macs	Mairzy Doats  (Milton Drake/Al Hofman/Jerry  Livingston)
18	Jimmy Dorsey & His  Orchestra	When They Ask About You feat.  Kitty Kallen  (Sam H. Stept)
19	Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink  Spots	Into Each Life Some Rain Must  Fall  (Doris Fisher/Allan Roberts)
20	Billy Butterfield	My Ideal feat. Margaret Whiting  (Leo Robin/Richard A. Whiting/Newell  Chase)
21	Harry James & His  Orchestra	I'll Get By (As Long I Have  You) feat. Dick Haymes  (Fred A. Ahlert/Roy Turk)
22	Stan Kenton & His  Orchestra	And Her Tears Flowed Like  Wine feat. Anita O'Day  (Stan Kenton/Charles Lawrence/Joe Greene)
23	The Mills Brothers	You Always Hurt The One You  Love   (Doris Fisher/Allan Roberts)
24	Frank Sinatra	Saturday Night Is The Loneliest  Night Of The Week  (Jimmy Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn)
25	Bing Crosby	Poinciana  (Nat Simon/Buddy Bernier)
26	Ernest Tubb	Soldier's Last Letter  (Redd Stewart/Ernest Tubb)
27	The Andrews Sisters	Tico, Tico  (Zequinha de Abreu)
28	Freddy Slack & His  Orchestra	Milk Man Keep Those Bottles  Quiet feat. Ella Mae Morse (Don Raye/Gene DePaul)
29	Nat King Cole	D-Day   (Rube Bloom/Johnny Mercer)
30	Glen Gray & The Casa Loma  Orchestra	My Heart Tells Me feat. Eugenie  Baird   (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)
31	Woody Herman	Do Nothing Till You Hear From  Me  (Duke Ellington/Bob Russell)
32	The Merry Macs	Pretty Kitty Blue Eyes  (Vic Mizzy/Manny Curtis)
33	Bing Crosby with Vic  Schoen Orchestra	San Fernando Valley  (Gordon Jenkins)
34	Buddy Johnson	When My Man Comes Home feat.  Ella Johnson  (J. Mayo Williams)
35	Red Foley	Smoke On The Water  (Zeke Clements/Earl Nunn)
36	Al Goodman	First Class Private Mary  Brown feat. Barry Wood    (Frank Loesser)
37	Johnny Mercer & The Pied  Pipers	How Many Hearts Have You  Broken   (Johnny Mercer)
38	Johnny Long & His  Orchestra	No Love, No Nothin' feat. Patti  Dugan  (Harry Warren/Leo Robin)
39	Louis Jordan	Ration Blues  (Louis Jordan/Collenane Clark/Antonio  Cosey)
40	Cootie Williams & His  Orchestra	Red Blues feat. Eddie Vinson  (Haggart)