BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S TOP R&B SINGLES FOR 1948*
(Best Selling Retail Race Records Charts) (Magazine’s Chart)
No.-Song-Artist-Month Peaked on charts 1 LONG GONE-SONNY THOMPSON-JULY 2 GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT-WYNONIE HARRIS-June 3 TOMORROW NIGHT-LONNIE JOHNSON-June 4 PRETTY MAMA BLUES-IVORY JOE HUNTER-September 5 I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT YOU-BULL MOOSE JACKSON-August 6 MESSIN' AROUND-MEMPHIS SLIM-July 7 MY HEART BELONGS TO YOU-ARBEE STIDHAM-October 8 CORN BREAD-Joe Liggins-November 9 RUN JOE-Louis Jordan-July 10 BLUES AFTER HOURS-Pee Wee Crayton-November 11 Nature Boy-Nat "King" Cole-May 12 All My Love Belongs To You-Bull Moose Jackson-May 13 Late Freight-Sonny Thompson-October 14 Am I Asking Too Much?-Dinah Washington-November 15 Hop,Skip And Jump-Roy Milton-November 16 King Size Papa-Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends-April 17 Long About Midnight-Roy Brown Mighty Mighty Men-December 18 It's Too Soon To Know-The Orioles-November 19 It's Too Soon To Know-Dinah Washington-November 20 Fine Brown Frame-Nellie Lutcher-April 21 Don't Burn The Candle At Both Ends-Louis Jordan-October 22 Everything I Do Is Wrong-Roy Milton-October 23 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio-December 24 Pleasing You-Lonnie Johnson-November 25 Blues For The Red Boy-Todd Rhodes-December *As published in the January 1st,1949 issue of (US) Billboard Magazine