Table:
Year | Title | Catalog | Year.1 | Title.1 | Catalog.1
1936 | Swing Mr. Charlie / Stomping at the Savoy (w. Bob Crosby's Orchestra) | Decca 848 | 1945 | This Heart of Mine / Love | Decca 18660
1937 | Everybody Sing | Decca 1332 | 1945 | You'll Never Walk Alone / Smilin' Through | Decca 23539
1937 | All God's Chillun Got Rhythm / Everybody Sing | Decca 1432 | 1945 | On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe / In the Valley (Where the Evening Sun Goes Down) | Decca 23438
1937 | (Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You / You Can't Have Everything | Decca 1463 | 1945 | Round and Round | Decca 23459
1938 | Cry, Baby, Cry / Sleep, My Baby, Sleep | Decca 1796 | 1945 | It's a Great Big World (w. Virginia O'Brien and Betty Russell) | Decca 23460
1938 | It Never Rains But It Pours / Ten Pins in the Sky | Decca 2017 | 1946 | For You, For Me, Forevermore / Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did? (w. Dick Haymes) | Decca 23687
1939 | Over the Rainbow / The Jitterbug | Decca 2672 | 1946 | Changing My Tune / Love | Decca 23688
1939/1937 | Over the Rainbow / (Dear Mr. Gable) You Made Me Love You | MGM KGC-166 | 1946 | There Is No Breeze / Don't Tell Me That Story | Decca 23746
1939 | Embraceable You / Swanee | Decca 2881 | 1947 | I Wish I Were in Love Again / Nothing but You | Decca 24469
1939 | Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart / Fascinatin' Rhythm | Decca 18543 | 1947 | Look for the Silver Lining | MGM 30002
1939 | In Between / Sweet Sixteen | Decca 15045 | 1947 | Who? | MGM 30003
1939 | Oceans Apart / Figaro | Decca 2873 | 1947/1949 | Look for the Silver Lining / Merry Christmas | MGM 30212
1940 | Friendship (w. Johnny Mercer) / The Wearing of the Green | Decca 3165 | 1948 | Be a Clown | MGM 30097
1940 | Buds Won't Bud / I'm Nobody's Baby | Decca 3174 | 1948 | Love of My Life / You Can Do No Wrong | MGM 30098
1940 | The End of the Rainbow | Decca 3231 | 1948 | Mack the Black | MGM 30099
1940 | Our Love Affair / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows | Decca 3593 | 1948 | I Wish I Were in Love Again (w. Mickey Rooney) / Johnny One Note | MGM 30172
1940 | It's a Great Day for the Irish / A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow | Decca 3604 | 1948 | Easter Parade (w. Fred Astaire) / A Fella With an Umbrella (w. Peter Lawford) | MGM 30185
1941 | The Birthday of a King / Star of the East | Decca 4050 | 1948 | A Couple of Swells / Irving Berlin Medley (w. Fred Astaire) | MGM 30186
1941 | How About You? / F.D.R. Jones | Decca 4072 | 1948 | Better Luck Next Time | MGM 30187
1941 | Poor You / Last Call For Love | Decca 18320 | 1949 | Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey / Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland | MGM 50025
1942 | For Me and My Gal / When You Wore a Tulip (w. Gene Kelly) | Decca 18480 | 1949 | Play That Barbershop Chord / I Don't Care | MGM 50026
1942 | I Never Knew / On the Sunny Side of the Street | Decca 18524 | 1950 | Happy Harvest / If You Feel Like Singing, Sing | MGM 30252
1942 | That Old Black Magic / Poor Little Rich Girl | Decca 18540 | 1950 | Friendly Star / Get Happy | MGM 30254
1943 | Could You Use Me? ( w. Mickey Rooney) / Embraceable You | Decca 23303 | 1953 | Send My Baby Back to Me / Without a Memory | Columbia 40010
1943 | But Not For Me | Decca 23309 | 1953 | Go Home, Joe / Heartbroken | Columbia 40023
1944 | Over the Rainbow / I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful) (w. Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra) | V-Disc 335-A | 1954 | The Man That Got Away / Here's What I'm Here For | Columbia 40270
1943 | Bidin' My Time / I've Got Rhythm | Decca 23310 | 1956/1955 | Maybe I'll Come Back / Over the Rainbow | Capitol 6128
1943 | No Love, No Nothin' / A Journey to a Star | Decca 18484 | 1957 | It's Lovely to Be Back Again in London / By Myself | EMI CL-14791 (British release)
1944 | Meet Me in St. Louis / Skip to My Lou | Decca 23360 | 1961 | Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart / Rockabye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody | Capitol 4624
1944 | The Trolley Song / Boys and Girls Like You and Me | Decca 23361 | 1961 | San Francisco / Chicago | Capitol 6125
1944 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / The Boy Next Door | Decca 23362 | 1961/1956 | The Man That Got Away / April Showers | Capitol 6126
1944 | The Trolley Song / Meet Me in St. Louis | Decca 25494 | 1961 | Swanee / That's Entertainment | Capitol 6129
1945/1944 | Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk) / You've Got Me Where You Want Me (w. Bing Crosby) | Decca 23410 | 1961 | Come Rain or Come Shine / Rockabye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody | Capitol 6127
1945/1944 | Connecticut / Mine (w. Bing Crosby) | Decca 23804 | 1961 | Comes Once in a Lifetime / Sweet Danger | Capitol 4656
1945 | On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe / If I Had You (w. The Merry Macs) | Decca 23436 | 1962 | Little Drops of Rain / Paris Is a Lonely Town | Warner Bros. 5310
1944/1945 | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / You'll Never Walk Alone | Decca 9-29295 | 1963 | Hello Bluebird / I Could Go On Singing | Capitol 4938
1944/1945 | The Boy Next Door / Smilin' Through | Decca 9-29296 | 1965 | Hello, Dolly! / He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (w. Liza Minnelli) | Capitol 5497

Question: what is the number of singles released in the 1940s?
Answer: 46

Question: which single was released sooner, "the end of the rainbow" or "mack the black"?
Answer: The End of the Rainbow

Question: what was the first single to be released?
Answer: Swing Mr. Charlie / Stomping at the Savoy (w. Bob Crosby's Orchestra)

Question: what is the decca catalog number of the singe "everybody sing"?
Answer: Decca 1332