1942[edit]
| Date (in US) | Movie title | Song title | Artist | Writer | US charts | UK charts | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2 | Holiday Inn | "White Christmas" | Bing Crosby | Irving Berlin | 5 | 3 | won Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942; Crosby version also charted in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1961, and 1962; charted (US, #8) for Frank Sinatra in 1944. |
1944[edit]
| Date (in US) | Movie title | Song title | Artist | Writer | US charts | UK charts | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 16 | Adios Argentina (1934) | "Don't Fence Me In" | music by Cole Porter, lyrics by Robert Fletcher and Cole Porter | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters | 1 | charted in US by Kate Smith (1945, #8), Horace Heidt (1945, #10), and Sammy Kaye (1945, #4), the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[4] |
1945[edit]
| Date (in US) | Movie title | Song title | Artist | Writer | US charts | UK charts | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 20 | The Harvey Girls | “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” | Judy Garland | music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer | 10 |
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