The Number One Hits of 1937
November 28, 1936 – February 5, 1937 (10 weeks*)
Bing Crosby – Pennies From Heaven
January 2, 1937 – Janaury 16, 1937
Eddy Duchin – It’s De-Lovely
February 6, 1937 – February 20, 1937
Benny Goodman – Goodnight, My Love
February 20, 1937 – February 26, 1937
Harry Busse – With Plenty of Money and You
February 20, 1937 – March 13, 1937
Hal Kemp – This Year’s Kisses (4 weeks*)
February 27, 1936 – March 20, 1937
Benny Goodman – This Year’s Kisses (3 weeks*)
March 21, 1936 – April 2, 1937
Benny Goodman – Marie
April 3, 1937 – May 7, 1937
Guy Lombardo – Boo Hoo (5 weeks*)
April 17, 1937 – June 19, 1937
Bing Crosby – Sweet Lailani (10 weeks*)
April 24, 1937 – April 30, 1937
Bing Crosby – Too Marvelous For Words
May 1, 1937 – May 7, 1937
Fred Astaire – They Can’t Take That Away From Me
May 15, 1937 – June 4, 1937
Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday – Carelessly
June 5, 1937 – July 2, 1937
Guy Lombardo – September in the Rain
July 3, 1937 – August 6, 1937
Guy Lombardo – It Looks Like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane (5 weeks*)
July 3, 1937 – July 16, 1937
Russ Morgan – The Merry Go round Broke Down
July 17, 1937 – July 30, 1937
Shep Fields – The Merry Go round Broke Dow
July 24, 1937 – July 30, 1937
Hal Kemp – Where or When
July 31, 1937 – August 14, 1937
Fats Waller – Smarty
July 31, 1937 – August 6, 1937
Hoarce Heidt – Gone With The Wind
August 7, 1937 – August 28, 1937
Guy Lombardo – A Sailboat in the Moonlight (3 weeks*)
August 21, 1937 – September 12, 1937
Tommy Dorsey – Satan takes a Holiday (3 weeks*)
September 4, 1937 – September 24, 1937
Bob Crosby – Whispers in the Dark (4 weeks*)
September 11, 1937 – September 24, 1937
Tommy Dorsey’s Clam Bake Seven – The Big Apple
September 25, 1937 – October 15, 1937
Bing Crosby – The Moon Got In My Eyes (4 weeks*)
October 9, 1937 – November 11, 1937
Shep Fields – That Old Feeling (4 weeks*)
October 16, 1937 – October 30, 1937
Tedy Wilson – You Can’t Stop Me From Dreaming
November 6, 1937 – November 19, 1937
Bing Crosby – Remember Me?
November 20, 1937 – November 26, 1937
Rudy Vallee – Vieni, Vieni
November 27, 1937 – January 7, 1938
Tommy Dorsey – Once In A While (7 weeks*)
November 27, 1937 – December 31, 1937
Tommy Dorsey – The Dipsey Doodle
December 11, 1937 – December 18, 1937
Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell – Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?)
*ties, and sometimes interrupted by competing songs
The biggest Pop Artists of 1937 include:
Louis Armstrong, Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra, Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, Connee Boswell, Cab Calloway, Larry Clinton, Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby, Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Duchin, Duke Ellington, Shep Fields, Ella Fitzgerald, Jan Garber and His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Glen Gray, George Hall, Lionel Hampton, Horace Heidt, Billie Holiday, Hudson-DeLange Orchestra, Sammy Kaye, Hal Kemp, Wayne King, Andy Kirk, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, Jimmie Lunceford, The Mills Brothers, Russ Morgan, Ozzie Nelson, Ray Noble, Red Norvo, Dick Robertson, Raymond Scott, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Claude Thornhill, Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, Fats Waller, Chick Webb, Teddy Wilson, Victor Young
Charts based on Billboard music charts.