The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 41
The Rhythm & Blues Chart
Number ones, 1951-1952
Today's show features the number ones on the Billboard Rhythm & Blues hit lists - best sold in retail and most played in juke boxes - for 1951 and a part of 1952. And 1951 that brought a few real classics, some still cherished among blues fans, others being recognised as groundbreaking in the making of rock 'n roll.
But the new year was opened with a lot of tears, with a blues with a loud sobbing dubbed over it, and a classic pop tear jerker, together sharing the number one spot of January 12 of 1951.
Playlist
The date indicates when the record was listed number one for the first time.
- Amos Milburn - Bad Bad Whiskey (January 6, 1951)
- Charles Brown - Black Night (March 3)
- Lloyd Glenn - Chica Boo (June 9 *)
- Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats - Rocket 88 (June 9 **)
- Billy Ward & The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man (June 30)
- Clovers - Don't You Know I Love You (September 1)
- Five Keys - The Glory Of Love (September 22)
- Jimmie Nelson and the Peter Rabbit Trio - T-99 Blues (November 3)
- Clovers - Fool, Fool, Fool (November 10 **)
- Peppermint Harris - I Got Loaded (November 10 *)
- John Lee Hooker - I'm in the mood (November 17)
- Tab Smith - Because Of You (December 8)
- Earl Bostic - Flamingo (December 29)
- The Griffin Brothers Orchestra Feat. Tommy Brown - Weepin' and Cryin' (January 12, 1952 *)
- Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads - Cry (January 12 **)
- B.B. King - Three O'Clock Blues (February 2)
- Jimmy Forrest - Night Train (March 15 *)
*) Most played in jukeboxes; **) Most sold in retail. See notes of episode 25
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Big Jay McNeeley - Hoppin' with Hunter
- Frank 'Floorshow' Culley - That Girl
- James Von Streeter & his Wig Poppers - Landslide
- Johnny Otis Orch. - Head Hunter
- Sax Mallard - The Mojo