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Tracklist
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1 | Since I Met You Baby — James Cotton | 6:14 | 198 listeners | ||||
2 | Sweet Black Girl — Buddy Guy & Junior Wells | 3:32 | 9,229 listeners | ||||
3 | I Got My Eyes on You — Sonny Terry | 4:24 | 1,181 listeners | ||||
4 | Georgianna — Johnny Winter | 3:44 | 749 listeners | ||||
5 | Spoonful — Koko Taylor | 3:02 | 1,366 listeners | ||||
6 | What Am I Living For — Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown | 3:55 | 602 listeners | ||||
7 | Four Full Seasons of Love — Son Seals | 2:50 | 1,331 listeners | ||||
8 | I'll Take Care of You — Lonnie Brooks | 5:42 | 159 listeners | ||||
9 | Me and My Baby and The Blues — Charlie Musselwhite | 3:48 | 283 listeners | ||||
10 | Loving Mother for You — Billy Boy Arnold | 8:43 | 322 listeners | ||||
11 | Hooked On You — Albert Collins | 4:23 | 3,170 listeners | ||||
12 | Talk To My Baby aka I Can't Hold Out — Hound Dog Taylor & the House Rockers | 3:17 | 536 listeners | ||||
13 | Whole Lotta Loving — Professor Longhair | 3:46 | 2,860 listeners | ||||
14 | She Puts Me In the Mood — Elvin Bishop | 3:34 | 5,481 listeners | ||||
15 | I Got a Woman — Howlin' Wolf | 3:23 | 2,325 listeners | ||||
16 | You Are My Sunshine — Mississippi John Hurt | 2:36 | 6,609 listeners |
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Blues standards are blues songs that have attained a high level of recognition due to having been widely performed and recorded. They represent the best known and most interpreted blues songs that are seen as having permanent value.[1] Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. Many are also performed in styles that differ from the originals and reflect various music trends, including rhythm and blues and rock.
Each song listed has been identified by five or more music writers as a blues standard. Nearly all have appeared on major music singles charts. Since many of the songs were developed in American folk music traditions,[1] spellings and titles may differ; the most common are used.
List[edit]
Title | First recorded by | Year | Charting single(s) by[2] | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|
'Ain't Nobody's Business' | Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five | 1922 | Jimmy Witherspoon (1944) | [3][4][5][6][7] [8] |
'All Your Love (I Miss Loving)' | Otis Rush | 1958 | [9][6][10][11] [12] | |
'Baby What You Want Me to Do' | Jimmy Reed | 1960 | Etta James (1964) | [3][13][9][14] [15] |
'Baby, Please Don't Go' | Big Joe Williams | 1935 |
| [3][16][17][18][9] [14][19][20] |
'Blues with a Feeling' | Rabon Tarrant | 1947 | Little Walter (1953) | [3][9][21][22] [23] |
'Boom Boom' | John Lee Hooker | 1962 | [24][3][25][26] [27] | |
'Born Under a Bad Sign' | Albert King | 1967 | Albert King (1967) | [28][29][30][31] [32] |
'Caldonia' | Louis Jordan | 1945 |
| [3][29][33][34] [35] |
'Catfish Blues' | Robert Petway | 1941 | Muddy Waters (1951 as 'Still a Fool') | [36][37][33][38] [39] |
'Crosscut Saw' | Tommy McClennan | 1941 | Albert King (1967) | [3][40][41][42] [30] |
'Crossroads' | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Cream (1969) | [9][41][43][31] [44] |
'Driftin' Blues' | Johnny Moore's Three Blazers | 1945 |
| [45][46][47][48] [49] |
'Dust My Broom' | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Elmore James (1952) | [3][50][51][52] [53][54][39][55] [56] |
'Every Day I Have the Blues' | Pinetop Sparks | 1935 |
| [3][57][29][58] [59][39] |
'Farther Up the Road' | Bobby Bland | 1957 | Bobby Bland (1957) | [3][60][61][29] [62] |
'Five Long Years' | Eddie Boyd | 1952 | [63][64][9][65] [66][67][68] | |
'Forty-Four' | Roosevelt Sykes | 1929 | [69][70][65][71] [39] | |
'Goin' Down Slow' | St. Louis Jimmy Oden | 1941 | Bobby Bland (1974) | [72][9][73][74] [75][76] |
'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' | Sonny Boy Williamson I | 1937 | Smokey Hogg (1950 as 'Little School Girl') | [3][77][78][9] [73][79][80] |
'Got My Mojo Working' | Muddy Waters | 1956 | Jimmy Smith (1966) | [3][81][82][73] [83][39] |
'Help Me' | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 1963 | Sonny Boy Williamson II (1963) | [3][9][84][85] [86] |
'Hide Away' | Freddie King | 1961 | Freddie King (1961) | [87][88][89][90] [91] |
'Hoochie Coochie Man' | Muddy Waters | 1954 |
| [3][92][29][93] [94][39][95] |
'How Long Blues' | Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell | 1928 | [96][29][97][98] [39][99] | |
'I Can't Quit You Baby' | Otis Rush | 1956 | Otis Rush (1956) | [3][100][9][97] [98] |
'I'm a Man' | Bo Diddley | 1955 |
| [81][9][101] [102][103] |
'I'm Ready' | Muddy Waters | 1954 | Muddy Waters (1954) | [3][104][9][101] [98] |
'It Hurts Me Too' | Tampa Red | 1940 |
| [3][105][29][106] [107][108][109] |
'Kansas City' | Little Willie Littlefield | 1952 |
| [3][110][5][111] [112] |
'Key to the Highway' | Charlie Segar | 1940 | Little Walter (1958) | [113][114][92][5] [115][116][117] |
'Killing Floor' | Howlin' Wolf | 1964 | Howlin' Wolf (1964) | [3][118][9][115] [119][120][103] [121] |
'Little Red Rooster' | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | [100][9][122][98] [50][123][95] | |
'Mean Old World' | T-Bone Walker | 1942 | Little Walter (1953) | [3][9][124][66] [54] |
'My Babe' | Little Walter | 1955 |
| [104][29][125] [126][95] |
'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out' | Bessie Smith | 1929 |
| [29][127][128] [129][130] |
'Reconsider Baby' | Lowell Fulson | 1954 | Lowell Fulson (1954) | [3][131][9] [122][132] |
'Rock Me Baby' | Lil' Son Jackson | 1950 | B.B. King (1964) | [3][29][133][50] [134] |
'Rollin' and Tumblin' | Hambone Willie Newbern | 1929 | Canned Heat (1967) | [135][136][9] [137][138][53] [31][39] |
'See See Rider' | Ma Rainey | 1924 |
| [96][139][5] [140][141][142] [143][7][144] [145] |
'Sitting on Top of the World' | Mississippi Sheiks | 1930 | [9][146][147] [148][149] | |
'The Sky Is Crying' | Elmore James | 1960 | Elmore James (1960) | [3][9][150] [151][152] |
'Spoonful' | Howlin' Wolf | 1960 | Etta James & Harvey Fuqua (1961) | [3][114][100][9] [153][31] |
'Stormy Monday' | T-Bone Walker | 1948 |
| [3][45][81][5] [154][134][39] [155][156] |
'Sweet Home Chicago' | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Junior Parker (1958) | [3][157][29] [158][52] |
'Sweet Little Angel' | Lucille Bogan | 1930 | B.B. King (1956) | [159][105][158] [160][109] |
'That's All Right' | Jimmy Rogers | 1950 | [3][161][162] [163][164][165] | |
'The Things That I Used to Do' | Guitar Slim | 1953 | [166][3][167] [168][74][161] [169][170] | |
'The Thrill Is Gone' | Roy Hawkins | 1951 |
| [3][171][172] [9][173][174] |
'Trouble in Mind' | Bertha 'Chippie' Hill | 1926 | [175][9][176] [128][177][178] | |
'Walkin' Blues' | Robert Johnson | 1936 | Muddy Waters (1948 as 'I Feel Like Going Home') | [3][179][9] [180][181] |
'Worried Life Blues' | Big Maceo | 1941 |
| [182][183][184] [185][186] |
'You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling' | Tampa Red | 1938 | Freddie King (1961) | [105][187][108] [107][109] |
Notes[edit]
Citations
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 435.
- ^Whitburn 1988.
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadBarrett & Garcia 2010, p. 74.
- ^Erlewine 2003, p. 71.
- ^ abcdeHal Leonard 2013, index.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 436.
- ^ abOliver 1968, p. 16.
- ^Talevski 2010, p. 728.
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwHal Leonard 1996, index.
- ^Huxley 1995, eBook.
- ^Obrecht 2000, p. 9.
- ^Sammon 2015, eBook.
- ^Friedland 2004, p. 80.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 437.
- ^Sing Out 1993, p. 81.
- ^Eagle & LeBlanc 2013, p. 111.
- ^Erlewine 2003, p. 712.
- ^Guralnick 1982, p. 1965.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 39.
- ^Milward 2013, p. 64.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 440.
- ^McMullen, Steve. 'Steve Hackett: Blues With a Feeling – Album Review'. AllMusic. Retrieved January 11, 2018.
- ^Sokolow 2014, eBook.
- ^Amicone 2001, p. YE-29.
- ^Blues Revue 2005, p. 82.
- ^Edmondson 2013, p. 564.
- ^Morris 2001, p. 70.
- ^Evans & Kingsbury 2009, p. 210.
- ^ abcdefghijkHal Leonard 2005, index.
- ^ abMurray 1991, p. 141.
- ^ abcdSantelli 2001, p. 107.
- ^Stang 1998, p. 4.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 441.
- ^Leggett, Steve. 'Various Artists: Blues Story [Shout! Factory] – Album Review'. AllMusic. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
- ^Marcus 2011, p. 65.
- ^Cummings-Yeates 2014, p. 32.
- ^Danchin 2001, p. 275.
- ^Moskowitz 2010, p. 114.
- ^ abcdefghiSouthern 1997, p. 509.
- ^Goldberg 1969, p. 32.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 443.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 568.
- ^Pellegrino 2012, p. 73.
- ^Verna 1995, p. 152.
- ^ abEvans 2005, p. 104.
- ^Evans 2009, p. 210.
- ^Farley 2011, p. 137.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 445.
- ^Levy 2013, eBook.
- ^ abcKomara 2005, p. 21.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 446.
- ^ abMilward 2013, p. xiii.
- ^ abPalmer 1981, p. 128.
- ^ abPegg 2013, p. 164.
- ^Talevski 2010, p. 719.
- ^Unterberger & Hicks 1999, p. 196.
- ^Driggs & Haddix 2006, p. 224.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 447.
- ^Rothwell 2001, p. 158.
- ^Big City Blues 1999, p. 55.
- ^Erlewine 2001, p. 218.
- ^Oklahoma Today 1991, p. 48.
- ^Blues Foundation 2011.
- ^Erlewine 2003, p. 64.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 448.
- ^ abKomara 2005, pp. 1014–1015.
- ^Larkin 2013, p. lx.
- ^Wyman & Havers 2001, p. 300.
- ^Bain 2012, eBook.
- ^Evans 1982, p. 340.
- ^Living Blues 1983, p. 12.
- ^Blues Foundation 2002.
- ^ abcHerzhaft 1992, p. 449.
- ^ abJournal of American Folklore 1973, p. 423.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 732.
- ^Rees & Crampton 1999, p. 105.
- ^Erlewine 2002, p. 482.
- ^Evans 2005, p. 197.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 670.
- ^Palmer 1981, p. 145.
- ^ abcFord, Jr. 1979, p. 63.
- ^GPI 2007, p. 7.
- ^O'Neal 1984.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 450.
- ^Living Blues 1991, p. 52.
- ^Unterberger & Hicks 1999, p. 249.
- ^DeCurtis, Henke & George-Warren 1992, p. 398.
- ^Emerson 2004, p. 39.
- ^Erlewine 2003, p. 304.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 451.
- ^Smith 2013, p. 46.
- ^ abErlewine 2003, p. 214.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 452.
- ^Milward 2013, p. 14.
- ^ abcTalevski 2010, pp. 134–135.
- ^ abDanchin 2005, p. 62.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 453.
- ^ abcdHoffmann 2005, p. 62.
- ^Talevski 2010, p. 72.
- ^ abcErlewine 2001, p. 520.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 454.
- ^Murphy 2008, p. 72.
- ^ abShapiro, Heatley & Mayer 2009, p. 53.
- ^ abErlewine 2003, p. 421.
- ^ abcGuralnick 1982, p. 1905.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 455.
- ^ abJournal of American Folklore 1978, p. 742.
- ^ abLarkin 2013, p. 1932.
- ^ abcObrecht 2000, p. 4.
- ^Goldberg 1969, p. 12.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 456.
- ^Marsh 1999, p. 125.
- ^Blues Foundation 2010.
- ^ abBlues Revue 2005, p. 186.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 457.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 563.
- ^Living Blues 1991, p. 78.
- ^Devi 2012, p. xv.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 472.
- ^Moskowitz 2010, p. 112.
- ^Talevski 1998, p. 180.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 467.
- ^Rees & Crampton 1999.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 461.
- ^Hay 2005, p. 75.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 463.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 464.
- ^ abMorris 2003, p. 5.
- ^Rodriguez 2010, p. 164.
- ^Sandage 2009, p. 268.
- ^Farley 2011, p. 127.
- ^O'Neal 1993.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, pp. 467–468.
- ^ abMurray 1991, p. 145.
- ^Eagle & LeBlanc 2013, p. 240.
- ^Erlewine 2001, p. 531.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 468.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 722.
- ^Edmondson 2013, p. 938.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 469.
- ^Hoffmann 2005, p. 280.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 190.
- ^Marsh 1999, p. 168.
- ^Talevski 1998, p. 62.
- ^Wyman & Havers 2001, p. 290.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 470.
- ^Oliver 2001, pp. 186–187.
- ^Palmer 1981, p. 110.
- ^Whiteis 2013, p. 86.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 471.
- ^Talevski 1998, p. 191.
- ^Wynne 2007, p. 140.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 471–472.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 472–473.
- ^Stang 1998, p. 2.
- ^Talevski 2010, p. 390.
- ^Devi 2012, p. 141.
- ^ abHerzhaft 1992, p. 473.
- ^Barlow 1983, p. 326.
- ^Living Blues 1996, p. 92.
- ^ abMalvinni 2013, p. 8.
- ^Palmer 1981, p. 181.
- ^Darwen 1989, p. 1.
- ^Nadel 1988, p. 166.
- ^Blues Foundation 2016.
- ^Arnett Ervin 1999, p. 184.
- ^Eagle & LeBlanc 2013, p. 98.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, pp. 474–475.
- ^Rothwell 2001, p. 110.
- ^Tracy 1999, p. 449.
- ^Big City Blues 2001, p. 48.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 475.
- ^Wiley 1993, p. 275.
- ^Wynn 2009, p. 96.
- ^Driggs & Haddix 2006, p. 220.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 476.
- ^Oliver 2001, p. 205.
- ^Riesman 2011, p. 212.
- ^Beaumont 2011, p. 91.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 477.
- ^Parrish 2001, p. 13.
- ^Erlewine 2003, p. 398.
- ^Guralnick 1982, p. 1906.
- ^Komara 2005, p. 305.
- ^Riesman 2011, p. 142.
- ^Rothwell 2001, p. 89.
- ^Herzhaft 1992, p. 459.
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This strange collection should probably have been titled Bluesy Love Songs rather than Blues Love Songs, since half of what is here on this two-disc set (with a little editing this could have easily been a single disc) isn't blues by most definitions of the genre. Not that there aren't wonderful tracks, like the marvelous field recording of Vera Ward Hall singing the slave-era lament 'Another Man Done Gone' that leads things off, Bobby Bland's powerful 'I'll Take Care of You,' or Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate's delightful restructuring of 'Queen Bee.' But a great deal of the music here isn't the blues at all, so in the end this anthology plays like someone's personal mix tape -- which is fine, but most folks can make their own.
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 1:26 | ||
2 | The Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Norah Jones / Robert Rudolph | 2:56 | |
3 | Eric Clapton / Will Jennings | 4:31 | |
4 | Ella Fitzgerald / Buddy Bregman & Orchestra | 5:56 | |
5 | Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers | 2:35 | |
6 | 2:40 | ||
7 | 3:08 | ||
8 | 2:20 | ||
9 | 3:05 | ||
10 | Toumani Diabaté / Taj Mahal | 5:04 |
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 4:26 | ||
2 | Richard Rudolph / Charles Stephney | 6:31 | |
3 | 2:03 | ||
4 | 2:30 | ||
5 | 3:15 | ||
6 | 2:36 | ||
7 | 2:55 | ||
8 | 6:40 | ||
9 | 4:45 | ||
10 | India.Arie / S. Sanders | 3:58 |
Listed here are Billboard magazine's number-one rhythm and blues hits from 1942 to 1959. The Billboard R&B chart is today known as the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
From May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958, multiple charts were published, which explains the overlap in the dates of the charts. The 1942 'Harlem Hit Parade' chart, based on juke box plays, became the 'Race Records Juke Box' chart in 1945, and the 'Race Record Best Sellers' chart, based on sales, began in parallel in 1948. They were renamed as R&B charts in 1949. A third, 'Jockeys' chart, based on radio airplay, was introduced in 1955, and a unified chart was only introduced in 1958. Because of the existence of multiple charts, some dates had more than one number-one song during the week.[1]
- 31950s
Chart names[edit]
- Harlem Hit Parade — 1942 to February 10, 1945.
- Juke Box Race Records — February 17, 1945 to June 17, 1957.
- Billboard's 'Best Sellers' — May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958.
- Rhythm & Blues — June 25, 1949 to November 30, 1963.
- Billboard's 'Jockeys' — January 22, 1955 to October 13, 1958.
- Hot R&B —; October 20, 1958 to November 30, 1963. Reinstated January 30, 1965 and continued under that name until the week ending August 16, 1969.
- Soul Singles — August 23, 1969 to July 7, 1973.
- Hot Soul Singles — July 14, 1973 to June 19, 1982.
- Hot Black Singles — June 26, 1982 to October 1990.
- Hot R&B Singles — October 1990 to 1998.
- Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs — 1998 to present.
An asterisk after a song title means that the song lost and then regained the number-one spot.
1940s[edit]
1950s[edit]
1950[edit]
- February 18: 'I Almost Lost My Mind' — Ivory Joe Hunter (5 weeks)* – M-G-M 10578
- March 4: 'Double Crossing Blues' — Johnny Otis Quintette, The Robins, and Little Esther (9 weeks) – SAVOY 731
- April 15: 'Mistrusting Blues' — Little Esther with Mel Walker and the Johnny Otis Orchestra (4 weeks) – SAVOY 735
- May 13: 'I Need You So' — Ivory Joe Hunter (2 weeks) – M-G-M 10663
- May 27: 'Pink Champagne' — Joe Liggins and His Honeydrippers (13 weeks)* – SPECIALTY 355
- July 8: 'Cupid's Boogie' — Johnny Otis Orchestra, Little Esther, and Mel Walker (1 week) – SAVOY 750
- August 19: 'Hard Luck Blues' —; Roy Brown (3 weeks) – DELUXE 3304
- September 2: 'Mona Lisa' —; Nat 'King' Cole (4 weeks) – CAPITOL 1010
- September 9: 'Blue Light Boogie' (Parts 1 & 2) — Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five (7 weeks) – DECCA 27114
- October 28: 'Blue Shadows' — Lowell Fulson (4 weeks) – SWING TIME 226
- November 4: 'Anytime — Any Place — Anywhere' — Joe Morris and His Orchestra (4 weeks)* – ATLANTIC 914
- November 25: 'Please Send Me Someone to Love' — Percy Mayfield (2 weeks)* – SPECIALTY 375
- December 9: 'Teardrops from My Eyes' — Ruth Brown (11 weeks)* – ATLANTIC 919
1951[edit]
- January 6: 'Bad, Bad Whiskey' — Amos Milburn (3 weeks)* – ALADDIN 3068
- March 3: 'Black Night' — Charles Brown (14 weeks) – ALADDIN 3076
- June 9: 'Rocket 88' — Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (5 weeks) – CHESS 1458
- June 9: 'Chica Boo' — Lloyd Glenn (2 weeks) – SWING TIME 254
- June 30: 'Sixty Minute Man' — The Dominoes (14 weeks)* – FEDERAL 12022
- September 1: 'Don't You Know I Love You' — The Clovers (2 weeks) – ATLANTIC 934
- September 22: 'The Glory of Love' —; The Five Keys (4 weeks)* – ALADDIN 3099
- November 3: 'T' 99 Blues' — Jimmie Nelson and the Peter Rabbit Trio (1 week) – RPM 325
- November 10: 'Fool, Fool, Fool' — The Clovers (6 weeks)* – ATLANTIC 944
- November 10: 'I Got Loaded' — 'Peppermint' Harris (2 weeks)* – ALADDIN 3097
- November 17: 'I'm in the Mood' — John Lee Hooker (4 weeks)* – MODERN 835
- December 8: 'Because of You' — Tab Smith and His Orchestra (2 weeks) – UNITED 104
- December 29: 'Flamingo' — Earl Bostic and His Orchestra (4 weeks)* – KING 4475
1952[edit]
- January 12: 'Weepin' & Cryin' — Griffin Brothers Orchestra (3 weeks) – DOT 1071
- January 12: 'Cry' — Johnnie Ray and the Four Lads (1 week) – OKEH 6840
- February 2: '3 o'Clock Blues' — B.B. King (5 weeks) – RPM 339
- March 15: 'Night Train' — Jimmy Forrest (7 weeks) – UNITED 110
- March 15: 'Booted' — Roscoe Gordon (1 week) – CHESS 1487
- May 3: '5–10–15 Hours' — Ruth Brown (7 weeks) – ATLANTIC 962
- June 14: 'Have Mercy Baby' — The Dominoes (10 weeks)* – FEDERAL 12068
- June 21: 'Goin' Home' — Fats Domino (1 week) – IMPERIAL 5180
- July 12: 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' — Lloyd Price (7 weeks)* – SPECIALTY 428
- August 23: 'Mary Jo' — Four Blazes (3 weeks) – UNITED 114
- September 6: 'Ting-A-Ling' — The Clovers(1 week) – ATLANTIC 969
- September 27: 'My Song' — Johnny Ace (9 weeks) – DUKE 102
- September 27: 'Juke' — Little Walter (8 weeks)* – CHECKER 758
- November 8: 'Five Long Years' — Eddie Boyd (7 weeks)* – JOB 1007
- November 8: 'You Know I Love You' — B.B. King (2 weeks)* – RPM 363
- December 27: 'I Don't Know' — Willie Mabon and His Combo (8 weeks) – CHESS 1531
1953[edit]
- February 21: 'Baby Don't Do It' — The '5' Royales (3 weeks) – APOLLO 443
- March 7: '(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean' — Ruth Brown (5 weeks) – ATLANTIC 986
- April 18: 'Hound Dog' — Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton' (7 weeks) – PEACOCK 1612
- May 30: 'I'm Mad' — Willie Mabon and His Combo' (2 weeks) – CHESS 1538
- June 13: 'Help Me Somebody' — The '5' Royales (5 weeks)* – APOLLO 446
- July 4: 'Please Love Me' — B.B. King (3 weeks)* – RPM 386
- July 18: 'The Clock' — Johnny Ace (5 weeks)* – DUKE 112
- August 22: 'Crying in the Chapel' — The Orioles (5 weeks)* – JUBILEE 5122
- September 19: 'Shake a Hand' — Faye Adams (10 weeks)* – HERALD 416
- November 21: 'Money Honey' — Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters (11 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1006
- December 5: 'Honey Hush' — Big Joe Turner (8 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1001
1954[edit]
- January 30: 'The Things That I Used to Do' — Guitar Slim (14 weeks) – SPECIALTY 482
- February 6: 'I'll Be True' — Faye Adams (1 week) – HERALD 419
- March 27: 'You'll Never Walk Alone' — Roy Hamilton (8 weeks) – EPIC 9015
- May 22: 'Work With Me, Annie' — The Midnighters (7 weeks) – FEDERAL 12169
- June 12: 'Shake, Rattle and Roll' — Big Joe Turner (3 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1026
- July 10: 'Honey Love' — The Drifters feat. Clyde McPhatter (8 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1029
- September 4: 'Oh What a Dream' — Ruth Brown (8 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1036
- September 25: 'Annie Had a Baby' — The Midnighters (2 weeks) – FEDERAL 12195
- October 16: 'It Hurts Me to My Heart' — Faye Adams (5 weeks) – HERALD 435
- November 20: 'Mambo Baby' — Ruth Brown (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1044
- November 27: 'Hearts of Stone' — The Charms (9 weeks) – DELUXE 6062
- November 25: 'You Upset Me Baby' — B.B. King (2 weeks) – RPM 416
1955[edit]
- January 15: 'Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)' — The Penguins (3 weeks) – Dootone 348
- January 22: 'Sincerely' — The Moonglows (2 weeks)* – CHESS 1581
- February 12: 'Pledging My Love' — Johnny Ace (10 weeks)* – DUKE 136
- April 9: 'The Wallflower' — Etta James (4 weeks)* – MODERN 947
- April 23: 'My Babe' — Little Walter (5 weeks)* – CHECKER 811
- May 7: 'I Got a Woman' — Ray Charles (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1050
- May 21: 'Unchained Melody' — Roy Hamilton (3 weeks) – EPIC 9102
- June 11: 'Ain't That a Shame' — Fats Domino (1 week) – IMPERIAL 5348
- June 18: 'Unchained Melody' — Al Hibbler (1 week) – DECCA 29441
- June 25: 'Bo Diddley' — Bo Diddley (2 weeks)* – CHECKER 814
- August 6: 'A Fool for You' — Ray Charles (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1063
- August 20: 'Maybellene' — Chuck Berry (11 weeks) – CHESS 1604
- October 22: 'Only You (and You Alone)' — The Platters (7 weeks) – MERCURY 70633
- October 29: 'All by Myself' — Fats Domino (3 weeks) – IMPERIAL 5357
- December 17: 'Hands Off' — Priscilla BowmanJay McShann and His Orchestra (3 weeks) – VEE JAY 155
- December 31: 'Poor Me' — Fats Domino (1 week) – IMPERIAL 5369
- December 31: 'Adorable' — The Drifters (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1078
1956[edit]
- January 7: 'The Great Pretender' — The Platters (11 weeks)* – MERCURY 70753
- January 7: 'At My Front Door' — The El Dorados (1 week) – VEE JAY 147
- March 17: 'Why Do Fools Fall in Love' — Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers (5 weeks) – GEE 10020
- March 24: 'Drown in My Own Tears' — Ray Charles (2 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1085
- April 14: 'Long Tall Sally' — Little Richard (8 weeks) – SPECIALTY 572
- May 19: 'I'm in Love Again' — Fats Domino (9 weeks)* – IMPERIAL 5386
- July 21: 'Fever' — Little Willie John (5 weeks) – KING 4935
- July 28: 'Treasure of Love' — Clyde McPhatter (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1092
- August 4: 'Rip It Up' — Little Richard (2 weeks) – SPECIALTY 579
- August 18: 'My Prayer' — The Platters (2 weeks) – MERCURY 70893
- August 25: 'Honky Tonk' (Parts 1 & 2) — Bill Doggett (13 weeks)* – KING 4950
- September 1: 'Let the Good Times Roll' — Shirley & Lee (3 weeks)* – ALADDIN 3325
- September 15: 'Hound Dog'/'Don't Be Cruel' — Elvis Presley (6 weeks)* – RCA VICTOR 20-6604
- November 13: 'Blueberry Hill' — Fats Domino (11 weeks)* – IMPERIAL 5407
1957[edit]
- January 5: 'Since I Met You Baby' — Ivory Joe Hunter (3 weeks) – ATLANTIC 1111
- January 26: 'Blue Monday' — Fats Domino (8 weeks)* – IMPERIAL 5417
- March 9: 'Jim Dandy' — LaVern Baker (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1116
- March 16: 'Love Is Strange' — Mickey and Sylvia (2 weeks) – GROOVE 0175
- March 23: 'I'm Walkin' — Fats Domino (6 weeks) – IMPERIAL 5417
- April 27: 'Lucille' — Little Richard (2 weeks) – SPECIALTY 598
- April 29: 'School Day' — Chuck Berry (5 weeks)* – CHESS 1653
- April 29: 'All Shook Up' — Elvis Presley (4 weeks) – RCA VICTOR 20-6870
- June 3: 'Young Blood' — The Coasters (1 week) – ATCO 6087
- June 10: 'Searchin' — The Coasters (12 weeks) – ATCO 6087
- June 17: 'C.C. Rider' — Chuck Willis (2 weeks)* – ATLANTIC 1130
- July 29: 'Short Fat Fannie' — Larry Williams (1 week) – SPECIALTY 638
- August 19: 'Send for Me' — Nat 'King' Cole (2 weeks) – CAPITOL 3737
- September 2: 'Further Up the Road' — Bobby 'Blue' Bland (2 weeks)* – DUKE 170
- September 2: '(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear' — Elvis Presley (1 week) – RCA VICTOR 47-7000
- September 9: 'Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On' — Jerry Lee Lewis (2 weeks) – SUN 267
- September 16: 'Long Lonely Nights' — Clyde McPhatter (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1149
- September 23: 'Diana' — Paul Anka (2 weeks) – ABC/PARAMOUNT 9831
- September 30: 'Mr. Lee' — The Bobbettes (4 weeks)* – ATLANTIC 1144
- October 7: 'Honeycomb' — Jimmie Rodgers (2 weeks) – ROULETTE 4015
- October 21: 'Jailhouse Rock' — Elvis Presley (5 weeks) – RCA VICTOR 47-7035
- October 28: 'Wake Up Little Susie' — The Everly Brothers (1 week) – CADENCE 1337
- November 25: 'You Send Me' — Sam Cooke (6 weeks) – KEEN 34013
1958[edit]
- January 6: 'At the Hop' — Danny & the Juniors (5 weeks) – ABC/PARAMOUNT 9871
- January 6: 'Raunchy' — Ernie Freeman (2 weeks) – IMPERIAL 5474
- January 20: 'Raunchy' — Bill Justis And His Orchestra (1 week) – PHILLIPS INTERNATIONAL 3519
- January 27: 'I'll Come Running Back to You' — Sam Cooke (1 week) – SPECIALTY 619
- February 3: 'Get a Job' — The Silhouettes (6 weeks) – EMBER 1029
- March 10: 'Sweet Little Sixteen' — Chuck Berry (3 weeks) – CHESS 1683
- March 31: 'Tequila' — The Champs (4 weeks) – CHALLENGE 1016
- April 28: 'Twilight Time' — The Platters (3 weeks) – MERCURY 71289
- May 5: 'Wear My Ring Around Your Neck' — Elvis Presley (3 weeks) – RCA VICTOR 47-7240
- May 19: 'All I Have to Do Is Dream' — The Everly Brothers (5 weeks) – CADENCE 1348
- May 26: 'Witch Doctor' — David Seville (1 week) – LIBERTY 55132
- June 23: 'Yakety Yak' — The Coasters (7 weeks) – ATCO 6116
- June 23: 'What Am I Living For' — Chuck Willis (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1179
- August 4: 'Splish Splash' — Bobby Darin (2 weeks) – ATCO 6617
- August 11: 'Patricia' — Perez Prado And His Orchestra (2 weeks) – RCA VICTOR 47-7245
- August 25: 'Just a Dream' — Jimmy Clanton (1 week) – ACE 546
- September 1: 'Little Star' — The Elegants (4 weeks) – APT 25005
- September 1: 'When' — The Kalin Twins (1 week) – DECCA 30642
- September 29: 'It's All in the Game' — Tommy Edwards (3 weeks) – M-G-M 12688
- October 6: 'Rock-In Robin' — Bobby Day (3 weeks) – CLASS 229
- October 27: 'Topsy Part 2' — Cozy Cole (6 weeks) – LOVE 50034
- December 8: 'A Lover's Question' — Clyde McPhatter (1 week) – ATLANTIC 1199
- December 15: 'Lonely Teardrops' — Jackie Wilson (7 weeks) – BRUNSWICK 55105
1959[edit]
- February 2: 'Try Me' — James Brown (1 week) – FEDERAL 12337
- February 9: 'Stagger Lee' — Lloyd Price (4 weeks) – ABC/PARAMOUNT 9927
- March 9: 'It's Just a Matter of Time' — Brook Benton (9 weeks) – MERCURY 71394
- March 11: 'Kansas City' — Wilbert Harrison (7 weeks) – FURY 1023
- June 29: 'Personality' — Lloyd Price (4 weeks) – ABC/PARAMOUNT 10018
- July 27: 'There Goes My Baby' — The Drifters (1 week) – ATLANTIC 2025
- August 3: 'What'd I Say' (Part 1) — Ray Charles (1 week) – ATLANTIC 2031
- August 10: 'Thank You Pretty Baby' — Brook Benton (4 weeks) – MERCURY 71478
- September 7: 'I'm Gonna Get Married' — Lloyd Price (3 weeks)* – ABC/PARAMOUNT 10032
- September 21: 'I Want to Walk You Home' — Fats Domino (1 week) – IMPERIAL 5606
- October 5: 'Poison Ivy' — The Coasters (4 weeks)* – ATCO 6146
- October 12: 'Sea of Love' — Phil Phillips (1 week) – MERCURY 71465
- October 19: 'You Better Know It' — Jackie Wilson (1 week) – BRUNSWICK 55149
- November 16: 'So Many Ways' — Brook Benton (3 weeks)* – MERCURY 71512
- November 23: 'Don't You Know?' — Della Reese (2 weeks) – RCA VICTOR 47-7591
- December 7: 'The Clouds' — The Spacemen (3 weeks)* – ALTON 254
For 1960 to present, start here.
Gap in the chart[edit]
50 Greatest Blues Songs
From November 30, 1963 to January 23, 1965 there was no Billboard R&B singles chart. Some publications have used Cash Box magazine's stats in their place. No specific reason has ever been given as to why Billboard ceased releasing R&B charts, but the prevailing wisdom is that the chart methodology used was being questioned, since more and more Caucasian acts were reaching number-one on the R&B chart. According to researcher Joel Whitburn, 'there was so much crossover of titles between the R&B and pop singles (Hot 100) charts that Billboard considered the charts to be too similar. This does not mean that R&B artists stopped turning out hits. After all, it was during this 14-month period that Motown established itself as an R&B institution.'[2]
References[edit]
- ^Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-1995. Record Research. p. xi-xiv. ISBN0-89820-115-2.
- ^Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. xiii.