BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE'S TOP R&B SINGLES FOR 1952 (Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records Charts) (Magazine's Chart)*
No.-Song-Artist-Month Peaked on charts 1 LAWDY MISS CLAWDY-LLOYD PRICE-AUGUST 2 HAVE MERCY,BABY-DOMINOES-July 3 5-10-15 HOURS-RUTH BROWN-May 4 GOIN' HOME-FATS DOMINO-June 5 NIGHT TRAIN-JIMMY FORREST-April 6 MY SONG-JOHNNY ACE-October 7 ONE MINT JULEP-THE CLOVERS-May 8 TING A-LING-The Clovers-September 9 THREE O'CLOCK BLUES-B.B. King-February 10 JUKE-Little Walter-December 11 No More Doggin'-Roscoe Gordon-April 12 You Know I Love You-B.B. King-November 13 Mary Jo-Four Blazers-August 14 Booted-Roscoe Gordon-March 15 Five Long Years-Eddie Boyd-December 16 Heavenly Father-Edna McGriff-May 17 Call Operator 210-Floyd Dixon-August 18 Flamingo-Earl Bostic-January 19 Cry-Johnnie Ray-January 20 Moody Mood For Love-King Pleasure-July 21 Middle Of The Night-Clovers-May 22 Best Wishes-Roy Milton-January 23 I'll Drown In My Tears-Sonny Thompson-July 24 Wheel Of Fortune-Sunny Gale & Eddie Wilcox-February 25 Daddy,Daddy-Ruth Brown-October 26 So Tired-Roy Milton-June 27 Easy,Easy Baby-Varetta Dillard-August 28 I'm Gonna Play The Honky Tunes-Marie Adams-July 29 That's What You're Doing To To Me-Dominoes-April 30 Fool,Fool,Fool-The Clovers-January
*As published in the December 27,1952 issue of Billboard Magazine.
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