List of top-ten songs for the 1940s in Mexico
This is a list of the 10 most popular songs in Mexico for each year between 1940 and 1949, as published in the book "El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana", by Fernando Mejía Barquera.[1]
The following year-end charts were elaborated by Mejía Barquera, based on weekly charts that were published on the magazines Radiolandia for the years 1944 to 1946 and Selecciones musicales for 1948 and 1949 (the latter were taken from Roberto Ayala's 1962 book "Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión" which compiled the Selecciones musicales weekly charts from 1948 to 1960; those charts were, according to Ayala, based on record sales, jukebox plays, radio and television airplay, and sheet music sales[a]).[2] Mejía Barquera then took one chart from the second week of every month of a calendar year, so as to have twelve charts per year, and assigned "points" to the songs on those charts based on their ranking (from 10 points for a first place to 1 point for a tenth place), adding up the points to make his year-end charts.[3]
The charts published by Selecciones Musicales and compiled in the Musicosas book only include the song titles and the names of the composers; the performers credited in this article are included for reference and where many performers are listed for the same song, the performers appear in alphabetical order, which may not reflect whose version was the most popular[b].
1944
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Hoja seca" | Roque Carbajo | Salvador García |
| 2 | "Toda una vida" | Oswaldo Farrés | Julio Flores |
| 3 | "Amar y vivir" | Consuelo Velázquez | Fernando Fernández |
| 4 | "Canción mexicana" | Lalo Guerrero | Lucha Reyes |
| 5 | "Vive como quieras" | Antonio Núñez | Aurora Núñez |
| 6 | "Noche" | Gabriel Ruiz & Ricardo López Méndez | María Luisa Landín |
| 7 | "Cartas marcadas" | Chucho Monge | Hermanas Padilla / Trío Calaveras / Various artists |
| 8 | "Dos almas" | Miguel Prado & Ernesto Cortázar | Various artists |
| 9 | "El herradero" | Pedro Galindo | Lucha Reyes |
| 10 | "Conozco a los dos" | Pablo Valdés Hernández | Hermanas Hernández / María Luisa Landín / Various artists |
| 10 A[c] | "La tequilera" | Alfredo D'Orsay | Lucha Reyes |
1945
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Hilos de plata" | Alberto Domínguez | Las Hermanas Águila |
| 2 | "Palabras de mujer" | Agustín Lara | Fernando Fernández / Toña la Negra / Pedro Vargas |
| 3 | "Como el besar"[d] | Juan Bruno Tarraza | Roberto Espí & Conjunto Casino [es] / Various artists |
| 4 | "¿Por qué eres así?" | Teddy Fregoso | Various artists |
| 5 | "Pelea de gallos" | Juan S. Garrido | Various artists |
| 6 | "Noche azul" | Agustín Lara | Various artists |
| 7 | "Cuando quiere un mexicano" | Manuel Esperón | Jorge Negrete |
| 8 | "Un gran amor" | Gonzalo Curiel | Various artists |
| 9 | "Somos diferentes" | Pablo Beltrán Ruiz | Nestor Mesta Chayres |
| 10 | "Volvamos a empezar" | Miguel Angel Valladares | Various artists |
1946
[edit]| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Ahora y siempre" | José de Jesús Morales | Various artists |
| 2 | "Humo en los ojos" | Agustín Lara | Mario Alberto Rodríguez / Various artists |
| 3 | "Traicionera" | Gonzalo Curiel | Fernando Fernández |
| 4 | "Triste pensamiento" | Chucho Rodríguez | Various artists |
| 5 | "Juntos" | Alberto Domínguez | Eduardo Alexander / Various artists |
| 6 | "La barca de oro" | Abundio Martínez | Hermanas Padilla / Various artists |
| 7 | "De corazón a corazón" | Gabriel Ruiz & Ricardo López Méndez | Hermanas Padilla / Various artists |
| 8 | "Esta noche ha pasado" | Manuel Sabre Marroquín | Various artists |
| 9 | "Lágrimas de sangre" | Agustín Lara | Toña la Negra / Various artists |
| 10 | "Nochecita" | Víctor Huesca | Eduardo Alexander / Various artists |
| 10 A[e] | "La Raspa" | Public domain | Various artists |
1948
[edit]For the monthly charts of 1948, see: List of top-ten songs in 1948 and 1949 (Mexico)
| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Verdad amarga" | Consuelo Velázquez | María Luisa Landín / Various artists |
| 2 | "¿Por qué has tardado tanto?" | Carlos Gómez Barrera | Various artists |
| 3 | "La rondalla" | Alfonso Esparza Oteo | Luis Aguilar / Luis Pérez Meza |
| 4 | "Madrid" | Agustín Lara | Ana María González |
| 5 | "Me acuerdo de ti" | Gonzalo Curiel | Various artists |
| 6 | "¿Hasta cuándo, mi vida?" | Chucho Rodríguez | Various artists |
| 7 | "Convencida" | Abel Domínguez | Various artists |
| 8 | "Dos gardenias" | Isolina Carrillo | Daniel Santos con Sonora Matancera / Avelina Landín |
| 9 | "Arrullo de mar" | Salvador Rangel | Various artists |
| 10 | "Un poquito de tu amor" | Julio Gutiérrez | Ana María González / Various artists |
1949
[edit]For the monthly charts of 1949, see: List of top-ten songs in 1948 and 1949 (Mexico)
| No. | Title | Songwriter(s) | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sin ti" | Pepe Guízar | Trío Los Panchos |
| 2 | "Bonita" | Luis Arcaraz | Luis Arcaraz y su Orquesta |
| 3 | "La rondalla" | Alfonso Esparza Oteo | Luis Aguilar / Luis Pérez Meza |
| 4 | "Amorcito corazón" | Manuel Esperón & Pedro de Urdimalas | Pedro Infante / Trío Los Panchos |
| 5 | "Tú, solo tú" | Felipe Valdés Leal | Dueto Azteca / Pedro Infante / Beny Moré / Trío Calaveras |
| 6 | "Malos pensamientos" | Alberto Domínguez | María Luisa Landín / Chelo Silva |
| 7 | "Mi corazón abrió la puerta" | Gabriel Ruiz | Various artists |
| 8 | "Falsos juramentos" | Carlos Gómez Barrera | Pedro Vargas |
| 9 | "Verdad amarga" | Consuelo Velázquez | María Luisa Landín / Various artists |
| 10 | "El abandonado" | Public domain | Miguel Aceves Mejía / Luis Pérez Meza / Trío Aztlán |
References
[edit]- ^ (Translated from Spanish) "Record agencies all over the country, jukebox operators, music publishers, recording houses and correspondents for Selecciones Musicales send local reports every week. In the headquarters, each one of those reports is assessed and by means of a scoreboard each song is rated so as to determine the position that it is to occupy on the "Hit Parade".
- ^ While many times, like in other countries, a song would be popularized by one particular performer and it became identified with them, in the 1940s and 50s it was common practice in Mexico for a song to be recorded by various singers from different record labels around the same time; therefore, this article may not include all of the performers who recorded the songs around that period.
- ^ Mejía Barquera includes eleven songs for his 1944 year-end chart, instead of the ten songs that are listed for other years.
- ^ Usually abbreviated to "Besar".
- ^ Mejía Barquera includes eleven songs for his 1946 year-end chart, instead of the ten songs that are listed for other years.
- ^ Mejía Barquera, Fernando (June 2006). El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM. pp. 196–198.
- ^ Ayala, Roberto (1962). Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión. p. 298.
- ^ Mejía Barquera, Fernando (June 2006). El Sound Track de la vida cotidiana: Radio y música popular en México D.F. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM. p. 193.