Joel Whitburn's Billboard Pop Hits Singles & Albums 1940-1954 is 4 big books in one. Covers 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 record's B-side. Following is a year-by-year ranking of all the hits which includes each song's songwriter(s). 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!
