1941 HITS ARCHIVE: Amapola - Jimmy Dorsey (Bob Eberly & Helen O’Connell, vocal) (a #1 record)

Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) (Lacalle-Gamse) by Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra, vocal by Bob Eberly and Helen O’Connell Major Dorsey hit remained at #1 on the national best-sellers chart for ten weeks. An earlier version of this 1925 Spanish tune by Louis Katzman’s group The Castillians (1934) is also posted to the channel. THE 1941 HITS ARCHIVE - a collection of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1941 (some were recorded in 1940) via sales, sheet music, radio exposure, and juke box play.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed. . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The three* MusicProf channels are home to The HITS ARCHIVES, YouTube’s most comprehensive collection of U.S. ‘popular music’ recordings from 1925 thru 1975. Discover thousands of original hit versions, conveniently arranged in year-by-year playlists and sorted alphabetically in your choice of either song title or artist name. Simply visit this channel’s home page (here:    / @the78prof72   ), scroll down the rows of playlist categories, choose a favorite year, click on “view full playlist,” and then pick out the songs that you want to hear. Enjoy the music! The78Prof The45Prof AnotherProf