Sunday, March 29, 2020

Christmas Hits of 1949 (Peatman Radio Standards Survey)


The 35 most played standards on radio in 1949 (According to Variety and the Peatman Annual Survey) included a number of Christmas tunes.

In at #22 "The Christmas Song"



At #17 "Here Comes Santa Claus"



At #13 "Winter Wonderland"




(Easter Parade represented the springtime holiday at #10)

And the top two for the year were...

#2 "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town"





#1 "White Christmas"