1942 - Music, Cars and Movies

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1942 Trivia

1942 February 10 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

1942 February 11 - "Archie" comic book debuts
1942 - June 14 Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released
1942 - October 1 Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1942 - October 29 Alaska highway completed

1942 Hit Parade

Hit Parade 1942

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1. Tonight We Love - Freddy Martin, Clyde Rogers
2. Be Careful, It's My Heart - Bing Crosby
3. Moonlight Cocktail - Ray Eberle, Glenn Miller
4. I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Helen Forrest, Harry James
5. Deep in the Heart of Texas - Bing Crosby, Woody Herman
6. Miss You - Dinah Shore
7. Jukebox Saturday Night - Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, Glenn Miller
8. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Don Cornell, Sammy Kaye
9. Jersey Bounce - Benny Goodman
10. My Devotion - Vaughn Monroe

I Got Rhythm (January 3, 1942 Sunset Serenade) - Glen Miller

I Got Rhythm (January 3, 1942 Sunset Serenade)

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1942 Music

Sleepy Lagoon
Best Seller chart on April 17, 1942 and lasted 18 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1

1/48 German Destroyer Jagdtiger

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Road to Morocco (1942)

Road to Morocco

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Road to Morocco, number three in the series of breezy comedies teaming Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, may be the funniest of the bunch.

Bing Crosby singing the sprightly "Ho-Hum", from "Road to Morocco" (1942).

Bing Crosby - Aint Got a Dime (Ho-Hum) from Road to Morrocco
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1942 Movie - Reap the Wild Wind - is included in this John Wayne Collection

John Wayne: Screen Legend Collection (Reap the Wild Wind / Rooster Cogburn / The Hellfighters / The War Wagon / The Spoilers)

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The five films come on three disks:
1. Reap the Wild Wind
2. The Spoilers and The War Wagon (both on side A)
3. Hellfighters (side A) and Rooster Cogburn (side B)

1942 Link List

1942 History
History highlights for 1942
Archie Comics History
Archie Comics is also the title of the company's longest running publication, the first issue appearing with a cover date of Winter 1942. Starting with issue #114 the title was shortened to simply Archie.

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Tetons and The Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, 1942

Tetons and The Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, 1942 Framed Art Print

Adams, Ansel

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4 Discs of Glenn Miller Top Hits 

Golden Years: 1938-42

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Archie: The Classic Newspaper Comics (1946-1948)

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Cartoonist Bob Montana guided Archie and his gang into a series of outlandish antics and gags on a daily basis for nearly 30 years.