When I thought about what to do for the year’s “bonus” day, my first thought was to list a bunch bunch of songs about “leaping” and “jumping.” Then I thought that was just too easy. So I decided to take another musical look at February 29th.

I present to you a look at songs that have the honor of being number one on Leap Day. So let’s leap back to 1940 …

2/29/40 – Glenn Miller and his Orchestra had the number one song with their best known song. In the Mood.

2/29/44 it was Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with My Heart Tells Me

2/29/48 – Art Mooney was feeling lucky with I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover

2/29/52 – Johnny Ray was shedding tears with his number one – Cry.

2/29/56 – The Nelson Riddle Orchestra took us to Lisbon Antigua

2/29/60 – It was Percy Faith and his orchestra with The Theme From a Summer Place.

2/29/64 – Of course, in 64 it had to be a Beatles song – I Want to Hold Your Hand was on top of the charts.

2/29/68 Yet another instrumental was number one. This time, Love is Blue from Paul Mauriat

2/29/72 – Harry Nilsson lamented about living Without You

2/29/76 – A TV Tune was number one. The Theme from S.W.A.T. from Rhythm Heritage

2/29/80 – Classic Queen! Freddy Mercury and the boys sat at number one with Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

2/29/84 – A song about leaping/jumping …. Jump from Van Halen

2/29/88 – George Michael took the top spot with Father Figure

2/29/92 – The is some confusion as to this particular year, however, the chart is dated 2/29/92 and it says the number one was held by Mr. Big – To Be With You (some people say Right Said Fred – I’m Too Sexy)

2/29/96 – It was the amazing pairing of Boys II Men and Mariah Carey on One Sweet Day

2/29/2000 the group Savage Garden hit number one with a forgotten favorite – I Knew I Loved You

2/29/04 Usher said “Yeah!” about having the number one tune. Any time I think of Lil Jon, I think of that sketch on the Dave Chappelle Show … LOL

2/29/08 – Flo-Rida hit number one with a song that still makes people dance – Low

2/29/12 Kelly Clarkston held the number one spot with Stronger

2/29/16 Justin Beiber was sitting at number one with Love Yourself

2/29/20 it was a song that I find to be a total piece of garbage. The lyrics disgust me and the fact that it was a number one song really makes me sick. I’ll just mention it, but I certainly will not be posting it here. The Box by Roddy Ricch.

As for today, it seems that Beyonce is at number one with something called Texas Hold ‘Em. I read the lyrics. Never heard it. I don’t care to.

Final thoughts? There were a lot of instrumentals on Leap Day! There were certainly some good tunes, some long forgotten, and some crap. Music is subjective. Any stick out for you?

Happy Leap Day!