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BILLBOARD MAGAZINE (USA) R&B #1 SINGLES:BEST SELLING RETAIL RACE RECORDS/R&B RECORDS CHARTS
1948 No. Date TW Song-Artist 1 5/22 7 4 of 7 Tomorrow Night-Lonnie Johnson 2 6/19 1 Good Rockin' Tonight-Wynonie Harris re 6/26 7 2 of 7 Tomorrow Night-Lonnie Johnson 3 7/10 3 1 of 3 Long Gone-Sonny Thompson re 7/17 7 1 of 7 Tomorrow Night-Lonnie Johnson 4 7/24 8 I Can't Go On Without You-Bull Moose Jackson 5 9/18 3 Pretty Mama Blues-Ivory Joe Hunter 6 10/9 1 My Heart Belongs To You-Arbee Stidham re 10/16 3 1 of 3 Long Gone-Sonny Thompson 7 10/23 1 Late Freight-Sonny Thompson re 10/30 3 1 of 3 Long Gone-Sonny Thompson 8 11/6 1 Blues After Hours-Pee Wee Crayton 9 11/13 4 3 of 4 Corn Bread-Joe Liggins 10 12/4 7 1 of 7 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio re 12/11 4 1 of 4 Corn Bread-Joe Liggins 11 12/18 1 Long About Midnight-Roy Brown Mighty Mighty Men re 12/25 7 4 of 7 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio
1949 No. Date TW Song-Artist 12 1/22 4 1 of 4 Chicken Shack Boogie-Amos Milburn re 1/29 7 1 of 7 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio re 2/5 4 2 of 4 Chicken Shack Boogie-Amos Milburn 13 2/19 1 Deacon's Hop-Big Jay McNeely re 2/26 7 1 of 7 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio 14 3/5 12 1 of 12 Hucklebuck-Paul Williams re 3/12 4 1 of 4 Chicken Shack Boogie-Amos Milburn re 3/19 12 11 of 12 Hucklebuck-Paul Williams 15 6/4 15 Trouble Blues-Charles Brown Trio 16 9/17 1 Tell Me So-The Orioles 17 9/24 2 1 of 2 Baby,Get Lost-Dinah Washington 18 10/1 1 All She Wants To Do Is Rock-Wynonie Harris re 10/8 2 1 of 2 Baby,Get Lost-Dinah Washington 19 10/15 12 11 of 12 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Parts I & II)-Louis Jordan 20 12/31 6 1 of 6 For You My Love-Larry Darnell
1950 No. Date TW Song-Artist re 1/7 12 1 of 12 Saturday Night Fish Fry (Parts I & II)-Louis Jordan re 1/14 6 5 of 6 For You My Love-Larry Darnell 21 2/18 2 I Almost Lost My Mind-Ivory Joe Hunter 22 3/4 9 Double Crossing Blues-Johnny Otis Orchestra & Little Esther 23 5/6 4 Mistrustin' Blues-Little Esther & Johnny Otis Orchestra 24 6/3 11 Pink Champagne-Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers 25 8/19 4 Hard Luck Blues-Roy Brown 26 9/16 6 Blue Light Boogie (Parts I & II)-Louis Jordan 27 10/28 1 Blue Shadows-Lowell Fulson 28 11/4 4 3 of 4 Anytime,Anyplace,Anywhere-Joe Morris 29 11/25 1 Please Send Me Someone To Love-Percy Mayfield re 12/2 4 1 of 4 Anytime,Anyplace,Anywhere-Joe Morris 30 12/9 11 1 of 11 Teardrops From My Eyes-Ruth Brown 31 12/16 1 Please Send Me Someone To Love-Percy Mayfield re 12/23 11 2 of 11 Teardrops From My Eyes-Ruth Brown
1951 No. Date TW Song-Artist 32 1/6 1 Bad,Bad Whiskey-Amos Milburn re 1/13 11 8 of 11 Teardrops From My Eyes-Ruth Brown 33 3/10 13 Black Night-Charles Brown 34 6/9 3 Rocket 88-Jackie Brenston 35 6/30 14 9 of 14 Sixty Minute Man-Dominoes 36 9/1 2 Don't You Know I Love You-The Clovers re 9/15 14 3 of 14 Sixty Minute Man-Dominoes 37 10/6 3 1 of 3 Glory Of Love-Five Keys re 10/13 14 2 of 14 Sixty Minute Man-Dominoes re 10/27 3 2 of 3 Glory Of Love-Five Keys 38 11/10 6 4 of 6 Fool,Fool,Fool-The Clovers 39 12/8 2 Because Of You-Tab Smith re 12/22 6 1 of 6 Fool,Fool,Fool-The Clovers 40 12/22 1 I Got Loaded-Peppermint Harris 41 12/29 4 2 of 4 Flamingo-Earl Bostic
1952 No. Date TW Song-Artist 42 1/12 1 Cry-Johnnie Ray re 1/19 6 1 of 6 Fool,Fool,Fool-The Clovers re 1/26 4 2 of 4 Flamingo-Earl Bostic 43 2/9 5 Three O'Clock Blues-B.B. King 44 3/15 1 Booted-Roscoe Gordon 45 3/22 6 Night Train-Jimmy Forest 46 5/3 7 5-10-15 Hours-Ruth Brown 47 6/21 1 Goin' Home-Fats Domino 48 6/28 7 6 of 7 Have Mercy,Baby-Dominoes 49 8/9 6 4 of 6 Lawdy Miss Clawdy-Lloyd Price re 9/6 7 1 of 7 Have Mercy,Baby-Dominoes 50 9/6 1 Ting A-Ling-Clovers re 9/13 6 2 of 6 Lawdy Miss Clawdy-Lloyd Price 51 9/27 9 My Song-Johnny Ace 52 11/29 1 You Know I Love You-B.B. King 53 12/6 1 Juke-Little Walter 54 12/13 2 Five Long Years-Eddie Boyd 55 12/27 8 I Don't Know-Willie Mabon
1953 No. Date TW Song-Artist 56 2/21 2 Baby Don't Do It-The "5" Royales 57 3/7 5 1 of 5 (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean-Ruth Brown re 3/14 2 Baby Don't Do It-The "5" Royales re 3/21 5 4 of 5 (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean-Ruth Brown 58 4/18 6 Hound Dog-Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton 59 5/30 2 I'm Mad-Willie Mabon 60 6/13 5 Help Me Somebody-The "5" Royales 61 7/18 5 The Clock-Johnny Ace 62 8/22 4 Crying In The Chapel-Sonny Til & Orioles 63 9/19 9 Shake A Hand-Faye Adams 64 11/21 11 Money Honey-Clyde McPhatter
1954 No. Date TW Song-Artist 65 2/6 1 I'll Be True-Faye Adams 66 2/13 6 Things That I Used To Do-Guitar Slim 67 3/27 8 You'll Never Walk Alone-Roy Hamilton 68 5/22 7 Work With Me,Annie-Hank Ballard & The Midnighters 69 7/10 8 Honey Love-Drifters 70 9/4 4 3 of 4 What A Dream-Ruth Brown 71 9/25 2 Annie Had A Baby-Hank Ballard & The Midnighters re 10/9 4 1 of 4 What A Dream-Ruth Brown 72 10/16 5 Hurts Me To My Heart-Faye Adams 73 11/20 1 Mambo Baby-Ruth Brown 74 11/27 9 Hearts Of Stone-Charms
1955 No. Date TW Song-Artist 75 1/29 3 Earth Angel-Penguins 76 2/19 9 Pledging My Love-Johnny Ace 77 4/23 4 My Babe-Little Walter 78 5/21 3 Unchained Melody-Roy Hamilton 79 6/11 11 Ain't It A Shame-Fats Domino 80 8/27 9 Maybellene-Chuck Berry 81 10/29 7 Only You-Platters 82 12/17 3 Hands Off-Jay McShann
1956 No. Date TW Song-Artist 83 1/7 10 Great Pretender-Platters 84 3/17 5 Why Do Fools Fall In Love-Frankie Lymon & Teenagers 85 4/21 9 Long Tall Sally-Little Richard 86 4/21 9 Slippin' And Slidin'(Peepin' And Hidin')-Little Richard 87 6/23 4 I'm In Love Again-Fats Domino 88 6/23 4 My Blue Heaven-Fats Domino 89 7/21 3 2 of 3 Fever-Little Willie John 90 8/4 2 Rip It Up-Little Richard 91 8/11 1 Ready Teddy-Little Richard re 8/18 3 1 of 3 Fever-Little Willie John 92 8/25 13 9 of 13 Honky Tonk-Bill Doggett 93 10/27 1 Hound Dog-Elvis Presley 94 10/27 1 Don't Be Cruel-Elvis Presley re 11/3 13 3 of 13 Honky Tonk-Bill Doggett 95 11/24 8 1 of 8 Blueberry Hill-Fats Domino re 12/1 13 1 of 13 Honky Tonk-Bill Doggett re 12/8 8 7 of 8 Blueberry Hill-Fats Domino
1957 No. Date TW Song-Artist 96 1/26 8 Blue Monday-Fats Domino 97 1/26 3 What's The Reason (I'm Not Pleasing You)-Fats Domino 98 3/23 6 I'm Walkin'-Fats Domino 99 4/29 4 All Shook Up-Elvis Presley 100 5/27 1 School Day-Chuck Berry 101 6/3 12 3 of 12 Young Blood-Coasters 102 6/3 13 Searchin'-Coasters re 7/1 12 9 of 12 Young Blood-Coasters 103 9/2 1 (Let Me Be Your)Teddy Bear-Elvis Presley 104 9/2 1 Loving You-Elvis Presley 105 9/9 2 Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On-Jerry Lee Lewis 106 9/23 2 Diana-Paul Anka 107 10/7 2 Honeycomb-Jimmie Rodgers 108 10/21 5 Jailhouse Rock-Elvis Presley 109 11/11 2 Treat Me Nice-Elvis Presley 110 11/25 6 You Send Me-Sam Cooke
1958 No. Date TW Song-Artist 111 1/6 5 At The Hop-Danny & The Juniors 112 2/10 4 Get A Job-Silhouettes 113 3/10 3 Sweet Little Sixteen-Chuck Berry 114 3/31 4 Tequila-Champs 115 4/28 3 Twilight Time-Platters 116 5/19 5 All I Have To Do Is Dream-Everly Brothers 117 6/23 7 Yakety Yak-Coasters 118 8/11 2 Patricia-Perez Prado 119 8/25 1 Just A Dream-Jimmy Clanton 120 9/1 4 Little Star-Elegants 121 9/29 3 It's All In The Game-Tommy Edwards
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