The Number One Hits of 1938
November 27, 1937 – January 7, 1938
Tommy Dorsey – Once In A While (7 weeks*)
January 1, 1938 – January 7, 1938
Fred Astaire – Nice Work If You can Get It
January 15, 1937 – January 29, 1938
Sammy Kaye – Rosalie
January 22, 1938 – February 25, 1938
Andrews Sisters – Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen (5 weeks*)
January 29, 1938 – February 5, 1938
Dolly Dawn – You’re A Sweetheart
February 26, 1938 – March 18, 1938
Shep Fields – Thanks For The Memory
March 19, 1938 – May 20, 1938
Hoarce Heidt – Ti-Pi-Pin (6 weeks*)
March 19, 1938 – May 14, 1938
Benny Goodman – Don’t Be That Way (5 weeks*)
April 23, 1938 – May 6, 1938
Duke Ellington – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
May 7, 1938 – May 20, 1938
Red Norvo – Please Be Kind
May 14, 1938 – June 4, 1938
Sammy Kaye – Love Walked In (3 weeks*)
May 21, 1938 – June 17, 1938
Larry Clinton – Cry, Baby, Cry (4 weeks*)
May 28, 1938 – June 17, 1938
Shep Fields – Cathedral in the Pines (3 weeks*)
June 11, 1938 – June 17, 1938
Benny Goodman – I Let A Song Go Out of My Heart
June 18, 1938 – July 15, 1938
Red Norvo – Says my Heart (4 weeks*)
June 25, 1938 – September 16, 1938
Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb – A-Tiskey, a-Tasket (10 weeks*)
July 16, 1938 – August 20, 1938
Tommy Dorsey – Music, Maestro, Please
September 17, 1938 – September 30, 1938
Fred Astaire – Change Partners
September 24, 1938 – October 8, 1938
Bing Crosby and Connee Boswell – Alexander’s Ragtime Band
October 1, 1938 – November 18, 1938
Larry Clinton – My Reverie (8 weeks*)
October 1, 1938 – October 28, 1938
Bing Crosby – I’ve Got A Pocket Full of Dreams
October 15, 1938 – October 28, 1938
Jimmy Dorsey – Change Partners
October 29, 1938 – November 11, 1938
Russ Morgan – I’ve Got A Pocket Full of Dreams
October 29, 1938 – November 4, 1938
Larry Clinton – Heart and Soul
November 5, 1938 – December 10, 1938
Artie Shaw – Beguine The Beguine (6 weeks*)
December 17, 1938 – December 30, 1930
Fats Waller – Two Sleepy People
December 31, 1938 – January 13, 1939
Bing Crosby – You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby*
December 31, 1938 – January 13, 1939
Andy Kirk – I Won’t Tell a Soul (I Love You)*
*ties, and sometimes interrupted by competing songs
The biggest Pop Artists of 1938 include:
Roy Acuff, Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, Connee Boswell, Cab Calloway, Larry Clinton, Bing Crosby, Bob Crosby, Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol, Al Donahue, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Duchin, Duke Ellington, Shep Fields, Ella Fitzgerald, Jan Garber and His Orchestra, Benny Goodman, Glen Gray, George Hall, Horace Heidt, Billie Holiday, The Ink Spots, Harry James, Sammy Kaye, Hal Kemp, Andy Kirk, Gene Krupa, Kay Kyser, Ella Logan, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, Johnny Mercer, Glenn Miller, The Mills Brothers, Russ Morgan, Ozzie Nelson, Ray Noble, Red Norvo, Dick Robertson, Buddy Rogers, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Dick Todd, Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, Fats Waller, Chick Webb, Lawrence Welk,Teddy Wilson
Charts based on Billboard music charts.
