Jimmie Revard And His Oklahoma Playboys:
Jimmie Revard (guitar or string bass), Adolph Hofner (guitar), Curly Williams (guitar or string bass, vocals), Emil "Bash" Hofner (electric steel guitar), Ben McKay (fiddle), Art Francis (piano), George "Cotton" Cooper (tenor banjo).
Recorded February 26, 1937, Texas Hotel, San Antonio, TX, mx: BS-07356-1 (A), BS-07357-1 (B).
1. Gene Autry Tweedle-O-Twill
2. Elton Britt There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere
3. Ernest Tubb Walking the Floor Over You
4. Carson Robison 1942 Turkey in the Straw
5. Zeke Manners & His Gang When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
6. Ernest Tubb When The World Has Turned You Down
7. Gene Autry Deep in the Heart of Texas
this is for the calendar year 1942!!
After you add the several months of 1943 charts for nos. 1 & 2, and the 1941 charts for Walking the Floor, the outcome is
1. Star Spangled Banner
2. Tweedle
Walking the Floor is no. 1 record of 1941, biggest hit of Tubb's career
1943 no. 1 is Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter, also top record of early 1940s (1940-44)
All info comes from Folk-Hillbilly weekly columns from Billboard
they didn't start chart until Jan 8 1944, but they gave regional info for several years
so my chart is not perfect, but there were so few records then, and the rankings are good
Great work guys FYI My Little Girl re-released 1948 20-3117
I had to identify these records from Billboard Jan 31 1942
HILLBILLY RECORDINGS Jan 1942
You Are My Sunshine - Gene Autry, Airport Boys
Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You - Jimmy Wakely
My Little Girl - Jimmy Revand
Barstool Cowboy - Spike Jones
Frisky Fiddlers' Polka - Curley Hicks and His Taproom Boys
Tears on My Pillow - Gene Autrey
I Wouldn't Trade the Silver in My Mother's Hair - Ambrose Haley and His Ozark Ramblers
Whoever wrote this is from the Beverly Hillbillies - Jethro Bodine