Other #1 songs on May 1, 1944
Across genres and charts

#1 R&B song

Main Stem

Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra

#1 song

I Love You

Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra

Notable May 1 Birthdays
Born in the 1940s

Rita Coolidge

Singer

Born May 1, 1945

Patricia Hill Collins

Scholar

Born May 1, 1948