page_title: 1943 in music
section_title: Top hit records
hierarchical_section_title: 1943 in music / Top hit records
caption_attribution_description: Cropped screenshot of Harry James from the trailer for the film Best Foot Forward
context_page_description: This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1943.
context_section_description: "As Time Goes By" by Rudy Vallee
  "Boogie Woogie" by Tommy Dorsey
  "Brazil" by Xavier Cugat
  "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" by The Song Spinners
  "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" by The Ink Spots
  "Goodbye Sue" by Perry Como
  "I Had The Craziest Dream" by Harry James
  "I've Heard That Song Before" by Harry James
  "I'm Old Fashioned" by Fred Astaire
  "In the Blue of the Evening" by Tommy Dorsey
  "Juke Box Saturday Night" by Glenn Miller
  "Let's Get Lost" by Vaughn Monroe
  "Moonlight Becomes You" by Bing Crosby
  "Paper Doll" by Mills Brothers
  "People Will Say We're in Love" by Frank Sinatra
  "Pistol Packin' Mama" by Al Dexter
  "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra
  "Stormy Weather" by Lena Horne
  "Sunday, Monday or Always" by Bing Crosby
  "Taking a Chance On Love" by Benny Goodman
  "That Old Black Magic" by Glenn Miller
  "There Are Such Things" by Tommy Dorsey
  "Velvet Moon" by Harry James
  "When the Lights Go On Again" by Vaughn Monroe
  "Why Don't You Do Right?" by Benny Goodman with Peggy Lee
  "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" by Dinah Shore
  "You'll Never Know" by Dick Haymes
  "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" by Judy Garland
caption: Trumpeter and bandleader Harry James, 1943
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