1944 HITS ARCHIVE: Straighten Up And Fly Right - Nat King Cole (original Trio version) (#1 R&B hit)

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Straighten Up And Fly Right (Cole-Mills) by The King Cole Trio

Though not yet a household name throughout mainstream America, “King Cole’s” jazz trio had already had a couple of #1 hits on the R&B charts before they released this breakthrough novelty that reached the ‘pop’ top-10 and spent ten weeks at #1 on Billboard’s “Harlem Hit Parade.” See also the Andrews Sisters version.

THE 1944 HITS ARCHIVE - a collection of commercial recordings and songs that proved popular during the calendar year 1944 via sales, sheet music, juke box play, and radio exposure.…plus some others that have gained increased recognition or have been shown to have had an impact during the decades that followed. You’ll note that due to the long-running ‘recording ban’ (musician’s union strike against the record companies), quite a number of this year’s best-sellers were recordings made back in 1942 or earlier.

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