How incredibly informative

I'm in the midst of doing some research work for a musicology professor at McGill (where I'm now in the first year of a Master's in Musicology program) copying song rating lists from Billboard magazines from 1939 to 1945 and in the process have come across many strange, funny and sometimes rather disturbing exhibits of North American culture of the time. Not wanting to keep them just to myself I thought I'd post them here for others to enjoy.

First one up is from the August 12, 1939 issue of Billboard magazine.


Who would have thought that "cigarets" could be so important?