"Which bandleader was at the top of the Billboard ""Best Sellers in Stores"" chart from 29 November 1941 to 2 May 1942 (except for one week) with four different tunes?"
Blues in the Night 21, 1941 and lasted 1 week on the chart, at #10. The Rosemary Clooney recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39813. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on September 26, 1952 and lasted 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at #29. In addition, the song was recorded at least three times by Jo Stafford. Her previously unreleased 1942 version with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra was included in the 1966 Reader's Digest box set "The Glenn Miller Years". On October 15, 1943, she recorded it with Johnny Mercer, the Pied Pipers, and Paul Weston's Orchestra, in
Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1955 Also included was "Sincerely" by The Moonglows, whose version — which topped the Top Rhythm & Blues Songs chart — was used in place of The McGuire Sisters' version, which reached No. 1 on the Best Sellers in Stores mainstream chart. Most of the other songs reached the top 10 of one of the three charts "Billboard" had in place at the time — the Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes. Rhino's mainstream pop top hits volumes for the years 1955 through 1974 were titled "Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits." Starting with the 1975