Joel Whitburn's Pop Hits 1940-1954: Singles & Albums

Joel Whitburn's Pop Hits 1940-1954: Singles & Albums by Whitburn, Joel. hardcover edition. ISBN: 0073999332780.

Pop Hits Singles & Albums is four big books in one covering the wonderful era of big bands, classic crooners, classy female vocalists and smooth vocal groups. The first section is an artist-by-artist anthology of classic pop songs with complete chart data and now shows every records B-side. Following is a year-by-year ranking of all the hits which includes each songs songwriter(s). For the first time ever are the Top 10 charts for every week from 1940-54. And finally, the complete story of the early pop albums chart is told artist-by-artist - showing all chart data and every track from every album!