Billboard Top R&B Records of 1949

Billboard Top R&B Records of 1949 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and juke box plays.[1]

Retail
year-end[1]
Juke box
year-end[1]
Title Artist(s) Label
11"The Hucklebuck"Paul WilliamsSavoy
22"Trouble Blues"Charles BrownAladdin
33"Saturday Night Fish Fry"Louis JordanDecca
45"Ain't Nobody's Business"Jimmy WitherspoonSupreme
56"Little Girl, Don't Cry"Bull Moose JacksonKing
67"Tell Me So"The OriolesJubilee
74"Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee"Stick McGhee & BuddiesAtlantic
813"Hold Me, Baby"Amos MilburnAladdin
97"Chicken Shack Boogie"Amos MilburnAladdin
1011"Boogie Chillen'"John Lee HookerModern
1116"Baby Get Lost"Dinah WashingtonMercury
1212"Rockin' at Midnight"Roy BrownDeLuxe
1315"Wrapped Up in a Dream"Do Ray & MeCommodore
1414"Bewildered"Amos MilburnAladdin
1510"All She Wants to Do Is Rock"Wynonie HarrisKing
169"Bewildered"Red Miller TrioBullet
1719"Close Your Eyes"Herb LanceSittin' In
18NR"Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee"Wynonie HarrisKing
19NR"The Hucklebuck"Roy MiltonSpecialty
2020"Confession Blues"Maxin Trio (Ray Charles)Downbeat
2118"Broken Hearted"Eddie WilliamsSupreme
2221"The Deacon's Hop"Big Jay McNeelySavoy
23NR"In the Middle of the Night"Amos MilburnAladdin
2423"Blue and Lonesome"Memphis SlimMiracle
2524"D'Natural Blues"Lucky MillinderRCA Victor
2625"Roomin' House Boogie"Amos MilburnAladdin
2717"Pot Likker"Todd Rhodes OrchestraKing
28NR"Sneaking Around"Rudy RenderLondon
2929"Hobo Blues"John Lee HookerModern
30NR"Cole Slaw"Louis JordanDecca
NR22"Beans and Cornbread"Louis JordanDecca
NR26"A Little Bird Told Me"Paula WatsonSupreme
NR27"It's Midnight"Little Willie LittlefieldModern
NR28"Back Street"Eddie ChambleeMiracle
NR29"Texas Hop"Pee Wee CraytonModern

See also

References

  1. "The Year's Top Folk Songs". The Billboard. January 14, 1950. p. 18.
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