BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S TOP R&B SINGLES FOR 1949*
(Most Played Juke Box Race Records Charts) (Magazine’s Chart)
No.-Song-Artist-Month Peaked on charts 1 HUCKLEBUCK-PAUL WILLIAMS-MARCH 2 TROUBLE BLUES-CHARLES BROWN TRIO-July 3 SATURDAY NIGHT FISH FRY (Parts I & II)-LOUIS JORDAN-November 4 DRINKIN' WINE,SPO-DEE-O-DEE-"STICK" McGHEE-May 5 AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS (PARTS I & II)-JIMMY WITHERSPOON-August 6 LITTLE GIRL,DON'T CRY-B M JACKSON & HIS BUFFALO BEARCATS-June 7 CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE-AMOS MILBURN-February 7 TELL ME SO-THE ORIOLES-September 9 BEWILDERED-Red Miller Trio-January 10 ALL SHE WANTS TO DO IS ROCK-Wynonie Harris-September 11 Boogie Chillen-John Lee Hooker-March 12 Rockin' At Midnight-Roy Brown-April 13 Hold Me,Baby-Amos Milburn-May 14 Bewildered-Amos Milburn-January 15 Wrapped Up In A Dream-Do,Ray & Me Trio-February 16 Baby,Get Lost-Dinah Washington-September 17 Pot Likker-Todd Rhodes-June 18 Broken Hearted-Eddie Williams-October 19 Close Your Eyes-Herb Lance & The Classics-May 20 Confession Blues-Maxine Trio-August 21 Deacon's Hop-Big Jay McNeely-February 22 Beans And Cornbread-Louis Jordan-October 23 Blue And Lonesome-Memphis Slim-September 24 D'Natural Blues-Lucky Millinder-April 25 Roomin' House Boogie-Amos Milburn-October 26 A Little Bird Told Me-Paul Watson-January 27 It's Midnight-Little Willie Littlefield-October 28 Back Street-Eddie Chamblee-September 29 Hobo Blues-John Lee Hooker-July 29 Texas Hop-Pee Wee Crayton-January *As published in the January 14th,1950 issue of (US) Billboard Magazine.