BILLBOARD (USA) MAGAZINE’S TOP R&B SINGLES FOR 1949*
(Best Selling Retail 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 AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS (PARTS I & II)-JIMMY WITHERSPOON-August 5 LITTLE GIRL,DON'T CRY-B M JACKSON & HIS BUFFALO BEARCATS-June 6 TELL ME SO-THE ORIOLES-September 7 DRINKIN' WINE,SPO-DEE-O-DEE-"STICK" McGHEE-May 8 HOLD ME,BABY-Amos Milburn-May 9 CHICKEN SHACK BOOGIE-Amos Milburn-February 10 BOOGIE CHILLEN-John Lee Hooker-March 11 Baby,Get Lost-Dinah Washington-September 12 Rockin' At Midnight-Roy Brown-April 13 Wrapped Up In A Dream-Do,Ray & Me Trio-February 14 Bewildered-Amos Milburn-January 15 All She Wants To Do Is Rock-Wynonie Harris-October 16 Bewildered-Red Miller Trio-January 17 Close Your Eyes-Herb Lance & The Classics-May 18 Drinkin' Wine,Spoo-Dee-O-Dee-Wynonie Harris-July 19 Hucklebuck-Roy Milton-May 20 Confession Blues-Maxine Trio-August 21 Broken Hearted-Eddie Williams-October 22 Deacon's Hop-Big Jay McNeely-February 23 In The Middle Of The Night-Amos Milburn-July 24 Blue And Lonesome-Memphis Slim-September 25 D'Natural Blues-Lucky Millinder-April 26 Roomin' House Boogie-Amos Milburn-October 27 Pot Likker-Todd Rhodes-June 28 Sneakin' Around-Rudy Render-November 29 Hobo Blues-John Lee Hooker-July 30 Cole Slaw-Frank Culley-July *As published in the January 14th,1950 issue of (US) Billboard Magazine