List of singles in the Race Records charts in 1945

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This list contains musicians, titles and their composer (s), date of entry into the charts, length of stay in the charts and highest position (abbreviated HP , each related to the calendar year). The presetting takes place after the artist / title first enters the top 10 of the charts. It can also be sorted by artist, title, chart entry, length of stay, position and label.

The list of singles in the Billboard Race Records Charts 1945 contains all the songs from singles that in calendar year 1945 initially in the "Harlem" Hit Parade , starting 17 February in the category of Most Played Juke Box Race Records of Billboard listed were. This represented the forerunner of the Billboard R&B charts introduced in 1949 .

background

Since the early 1940s, the market for so-called race records (records by African American musicians for an African American audience) had grown so much that Billboard became interested in measuring their sales. Race Music was a term that had been used by the record industry since the 1920s .

Sales charts for Race Records had been identified by Billboard as the Harlem Hit Parade since October 1942 . The weekly sales were first surveyed in an informal survey of an unspecified selection of the “most popular record stores” in the New York borough of Harlem (which was heavily influenced by African American people). In early 1944, record stores in Chicago and Newark (New Jersey) were added, from February 1944 in the whole of the United States, which is why the list then appeared under the embarrassment title as the "Harlem" Hit Parade . On February 10, 1945, the last chart listing based on a determination of record sales was published under this title.

From February 17, 1945, these sales charts were replaced by a chart identifying the weekly most-played songs in the jukebox , which was based on reports of such jukebox operators in the United States, their location Race Records required; this was released under the title Most Played Juke Box Race Records . In June 1949 the term Race was replaced in the chart lists by " Rhythm and Blues ".

In 1945 a total of 61 songs were placed.

list

Interpreter Title
Author (s) 		Chart entry Weeks HP Label number Remarks
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
Allan Roberts , Doris Fisher 		10/28/1944 21st 1 Decca 23356 The successful single was number one in both the Harlem Hit Parade and the pop charts. The B-side of the single was the song I'm Making Believe , which was also successful in both charts.
Nat King Cole Trio Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
Don Redman , Andy Razaf 		09/30/1944 22nd 1 Capitol 169
Lionel Hampton Hamp's Boogie Woogie
Lionel Hampton 		08/12/1944 23 1 Decca 18613 "Lionel Hampton's most famous composition in this genre was undoubtedly Hamp's Boogie-Woogie (1944), with tiny Teddy Buckner pushing the number forward."
Cecil Gant I Wonder
Cecil Gant 		October 19, 1944 28 1 Giltedge 500 I Wonder's Gilt Edge publication (as Pvt. Cecil Gant ) sold well in the United States; the title reached number one on the Billboard Harlem Hit Parade in 1944 and number 20 on the national pop table.
Nat King Cole Trio I'm Lost
Otis René 		04/11/1944 12 4th Excelsior 2986
The Mills Brothers You Always Hurt the One You Love
Allan Roberts , Doris Fisher 		08/05/1944 22nd 5 Decca 18599 You Always Hurt the One You Love was the Mills Brothers' fourth number 1 hit on the Billboard charts and the second '78 to sell over a million copies. In 1944, Kay Starr , Charlie Spivak , Charlie Barnet and Bunk Johnson also took him on.
Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots I'm Making Believe
James V. Monaco , Mack Gordon 		10/28/1944 14th 3 Decca 23356
Cootie Williams Cherry Red - Blues
Big Joe Turner , Pete Johnson 		05/20/1944 39 2 Hit 7084 Cherry Red was the biggest hit for Cootie Williams and His Orchestra . a. Eddie Vincon , Bud Powell , Eddie Lockjaw Davis and George Treadwell played.
Louis Jordan White Cliffs of Dover
Walter Kent , Nat Burton 		December 16, 1944 3 10 Hit 7109 The patriotic song was popular in wartime versions by Vera Lynn , Kai Kyser , Glenn Miller, and Kate Smith .
Cootie Williams Orchestra & Eddie Vinson Somebody's Got to Go
Bob Haggart 		01/06/1945 13 1 Hit 7119 Eddie "Cleanhaed" Vinson had a number of hits with Cootie Williams and His Orchestra , such as Cherry Red , Wee Baby Blues , also successfully with his older titles Juice Head Baby, Somebody's Gotta Go and Alimony Blues.
Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra I Don't Mind
Billy Strayhorn , Duke Ellington 		December 23, 1944 3 9 Victor 1598 With Ivy Anderson , vocals
Loois great Robin Hood
Prima - Miketta 		01/13/1945 1 10 Hit 7083 The Billboard noted in early 1945: "The power of these musical fashion designers is best shown in Louis Primate Robin Hood , who gives the legendary Jesse James a feline character."
Duke Ellington his Famous Orchestra, Vocal Refrain by Joya Sherrill I'm Beginning to See the Light
Harry James , Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges , Don George 		01/20/1945 7th 4th Victor 20-1618 Almost at the same time, Harry James and Duke Ellington were with the song in the US pop charts; It was followed by Ella Fitzgerald with the Ink Spots late April 1945th
The Andrew Sisters Rum and Coca-Cola
Morey Amsterdam 		01/20/1945 3 3 Decca 18636 The text for the Andrews Sisters version of "Rum and Coca-Cola" has been changed significantly from the original 1942 version.
Bing Crosby & Andrew Sisters Don't Fence Me In (From Warner Bros.-Picture "Hollywood Canteen")
Cole Porter 		01/20/1946 1 9 Decca 23364 Version of the piece from the Warner Bros. production Hollywood Canteen . In the film version, the Andrews Sisters sang to the accompaniment of Jimmy Dorsey .
Johnny Mercer Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive (From Paramount-Picture "Here Come The Waves")
Harold Arlen , Johnny Mercer 		01/27/1946 2 4th Capitol 180 Version of the song from the Paramount production Here Come the Waves (1944, directed by Mark Sandrich ), in which the song was introduced by Bing Crosby. Its version received an Oscar nomination in 1946 .
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra, Vocal Refrain by Al Hibbler Don't You Know I Care (or Don't You Care to Know)
Mack David , Duke Ellington 		01/27/1945 1 10 Victor 20-1618 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra recorded December 1, 1944; the vocalist is Al Hibbler .
Tab Smith with Trevor Bacon I'll Live True with You
William T. Ford 		02/03/1946 1 7th Decca 8661 The Tab Smith Orchestra had recorded several great hits with singer Trevor Bacon, including You Lovely You and I'm Live True to You . At the height of his immense popularity, he died in a traffic accident on the way to New York to get engaged in April 1945.
Dinah Washington Salty Papa Blues
Leonard Feather , Sammy Price 		02/03/1945 1 8th Keynote 606 Dinah Washington at her first record session for the small Keynote label, accompanied by the Lionel Hampton Sextet.
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Mop-Mop
Claude Demetruis , J. Mayo Williams 		02/10/1946 17th 2 Decca 8668 B-side of Jordans You Can't Get That No More .
Roosevelt Sykes I Wonder
Cecil Gant 		02/17/1945 13 1 Bluebird 34-0721
Louis Jordan You Can't Get That No More
Louis Jordan, Sam Theard 		02/17/1946 12 2 Decca 8668 Jordan's vocabulary was based on the everyday words of the urban ghetto: “ You just can't get it, you got to do with what you got / Ain't go have no more for the duration, / You got to be careful with your boots on. "
Warren Evans I Wonder
Cecil Gant 		02/17/1945 2 6th National 9003 Another cover version of Cecil Gant's hit title. The singer Warren Evans was active in the 1940s and 50s, including in the band of pianist Buddy Johnson . He died in New York in 1959.
Duke Ellington I Ain't Got Nothin 'But the Blues
Duke Ellington, Don George 		02/17/1945 3 4th Victor 20-1623 The vocalists were Al Hibbler and Kay Davis (obligatory).
Count Basie Red Bank Boogie
Buck Clayton , Count Basie 		March 17, 1945 2 6th Columbia 36766 B-side of I Didn't Know About You .
Pete Johnson All Star Orchestra (Vocal Big Joe Turner ) SK Blues
Saunders King 		March 17, 1945 6th 2 National 9010 The blues singer Big Joe Turner was accompanied by Pete Johnson's All Stars; The band included Frankie Newton (tp), Don Byas (ts), Pete Johnson (p), Leonard Ware (git), Al Hall (kb) and Harold "Doc" West (dr).
Erskine Hawkins Tippin 'in
Bobby Smith 		March 31, 1945 24 1 Victor 20-1639 One of the biggest hits of the year, Tippin 'In was the b-side of Erskine Hawkins' single Remember .
Louis Armstrong I Wonder
Cecil Gant 		March 31, 1945 4th 4th Decca 18652 Another cover version of Cecil Gant's successful title. In Louis Armstrong's orchestra played Billy Butterfield (tp), Sid Stoneburn (as), Jules Rubin (as, cl), Bill Stegmeyer (ts, cl), Arthur Rollini (ts), Paul Ricci (bar), Dave Bowman (p) , Carl Kress (git), Bob Haggart (kb, dir) and Johnny Blowers (dr).
Cecil Gant Cecil's Boogie
Cecil Gant 		04/21/1945 1 5 Giltedge 500 CG 2
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Strange Tings Happen Every Day
Bernie Hanighen 		04/28/1945 11 2 Decca 8669 De Be page from Two Little Fishes and Five Loaves of Bread .
Arthur Crudup Rock me, mom
05/05/1945 7th 3 Bluebird 34-0725 Rock Me Mama ( aka Rock Me Momma ), based on Big Bill Bronnzy's Rockin 'Chair Blues , had a huge impact on the next generation of musicians like Elvis Presley .
Louis Jordan Caldonia Boogie
Louis Jordan 		05/12/1945 26th 1 Decca 86703
Nat King Cole Trio If You Can't Smile and Say Yes
Louis Jordan , Timmie Rodgers 		05/12/1945 3 3 Capitol 192 "Nat Cole almost single-handedly paved the way for the next generation of pianists and singers."
Billie Holiday Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez , Jimmy Sherman 		05/12/1945 1 5 Decca 23391 Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) is particularly associated with, for whom it was written, Billie Holiday, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989 .
Arthur Crudup Who's Been Foolin 'You
05/12/1945 1 5 Bluebird 34-0725
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra (Vocal Refrain by Ace Harris) Caldonia
Louis Jordan 		May 19, 1945 9 3 Victor 20-1659 Billboard, in its April 21, 1945 issue, described Hawkins' version as "proper rock and roll rhythmic music," possibly the first use of the term to describe a style of music, 14 months prior to the more frequently cited use of the words in a description of "Sugar Lump" by Joe Liggins .
The Mills Brothers Put Another Chair at the Table
Cecil Gant , Richard Nelson 		05/26/1945 3 4th Decca 18863
The Mills Brothers I wish
Allan Roberts , Doris Fisher 		06/02/1945 3 4th Decca 18863 I Wish was the B-side of Put Another Chair at the Table .
Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
Lucky Millinder, Eddie DeLange 		06/09/1945 20th 1 Decca 18374 Wynonnie Harris was the vocalist in Lucky Millinder's orchestra, in which u. a. and Freddie Webster , Preston Love , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Lucky Thompson , Ellis Larkins , Lawrence Lucie , Al McKibbon and Panama Francis played. The song was also covered by Bull Moose Jackson and Louis Prima in the following years .
Louis Jordan Somebody Done Changed the Lock on My Door
William Weldon 		June 23, 1945 10 3 Decca 8670 B-side of Caldonia .
Buddy Johnson That's the Stuff You Gotta Watch
Buddy Johnson 		07/14/1945 10 2 Decca 8671 An R&B title also recorded in 1945 by Rubberlegs Williams & Herbie Fields ' Band (with Miles Davis ), Wynonie Harris & Jack McVea and His All Stars, as well as Tony Pastor and Stan Kenton .
Cecil Gant Grass Is Getting Greener Every Day
Cecil Gant 		07/21/1945 1 7th Giltedge 505
Cecil Gant I'm Tired
Cecil Gant, WS Stevenson 		08/11/1945 2 4th Giltedge 506
Joe Liggins The Honeydripper
Joe Liggins 		08/11/1945 26th 1 Exclusive 207
Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys It's Only a Paper Moon
Harold Arlen , EY Harburg , Billy Rose 		August 18, 1945 2 4th Decca 23425 In 1945, both Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald (with the Delta Rhythm Boys as background singers) were successful with the 1933 Broadway song.
Nat King Cole Trio I'm a Shy Guy
Nat King Cole 		08/25/1945 5 2 Capitol 208 Nat King Cole's Trio also appeared in a soundie of the same name with the song (1946, directed by William Forest Crouch).
Tampa Red Detroit Blues
Tampa Red 		09/01/1945 1 5 Bluebird 34-0731 "... a wonderfully grooving laid-back blues"
Count Basie & His Orchestra Jimmy's Blues
Jimmy Rushing 		September 15, 1945 1 5 Columbia 36831 B-side of Taps Miller , a title by Basie and Bob Russell . In Count Basie hits this time, Red Bank Boogie and Jimmy's Blues was Jimmy Rushing the Bandvokalist.
Billy Eckstine Lonesome Lover Blues
B. Eckstine / J. Valentine 		October 13, 1945 1 4th National 9015
Erskine Hawkins Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time)
Allan Roberts , Doris Fisher 		October 13, 1945 1 4th Victor 20-1685 Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time) was also covered by Pearl Bailey (Columbia) in 1945 .
Billy Eckstine Last Night (and Now Tonight Again
Sam Keval 		October 27, 1945 1 3 National 9015 Last Night (And Now Tonight Again) begins with a tenor saxophone solo by Gene Ammons .
Savannah Churchill Daddy, Daddy
Savannah Churchill, Irving Berman 		October 27, 1945 1 4th Manor 1004 The soloist on the title is trombonist JJ Johnson .
Jimmy Lunceford & Delta Rhythm Boys The Honeydripper
Joe Liggins 		11/03/1945 9 2 Decca 23451 After Joe Liggins was successful with the number in the charts from August 1945, cover versions of Jimmy Lunceford, Roosevelt Sykes, Oscar Peterson and Cab Calloway soon followed .
Billy Eckstine A Cottage for Sale
Willard Robison , Larry Conley) 		11/03/1945 1 3 National 9014
Herb Jeffries with Joe Liggins' Honeydrippers Left a Good Deal in Mobile
Herb Jeffries, Nat Leslie 		11/10/1945 4th 3 Exclusive 208
Roosevelt Sykes The Honeydripper
Joe Liggins 		11/24/1945 4th 3 Bluebird 34-0737 The American blues pianist was also known as "the Honeydripper". On the title of the same name he accompanies himself on the piano.
Big Maceo Merriweather Things Have Changed - Blues
Big Maceo 		December 01, 1945 1 4th Bluebird 34-0737 "Blues singer with piano, guitar and drums"
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra Beula's boogie
Lionel Hampton 		October 19, 1945 9 2 Decca 18719
Ivory Joe Hunter with Johnny Moore and The Three Blazers Blues at Sunrise
Ivory Joe Hunter 		December 15, 1945 1 5 Exclusive 209 Hunter's first major chart success, Blues at Sunrise was one of the typical R&B ballads of the time, as were Charles Brown's Drifting Blues (1946) and T-Bone Walker's Call It Stormy Monday (1948).
Helen Humes & Bill Doggett Octet Be-Baba-Leba
Humes 		December 15, 1945 8th 4th Philo PV106 With Ross Butler (tp), Johnny Brown a (s), Wild Bill Moore (ts), Ernest Thompson (bar), Bill Doggett (p), Elmer Warner (git), Alfred Moore (kb) and Charles Harris (dr) . Helen Humes had adapted the title from Big Jim Wynn's Ee-Bobaliba . Humes Be-Baba-Leba "is pure R&B with an intermittent backbeat and boogie bass line".
Arthur Crudup Keep Your Arms Around Me
Crudup 		December 19, 1945 1 3 Bluebird 34-0738 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, like many blues greats, had a greater influence on a later language of music: "Rock and Roll".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Campbell Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes on. Wadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2005
  2. ^ Billboard February 26, 2000
  3. ↑ Michael Campbell: Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On. Cengage Learning 2012, p. 160.
  4. ^ Billboard, February 10, 1945, p. 18
  5. ^ Billboard February 17, 1945, p. 18
  6. ↑ Nelson George: Black Music Charts: What's in a Name? . Billboard. Vol. 94 H. 25-26 June 1982, p. 10
  7. ↑ Peter J. Silvester: He Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God . Lanham: Scaregrow 2009, p. 255.
  8. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Pop Memories 1890–1954: The History of American Popular Music. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research, Inc. p. 168. ISBN 0-89820-083-0
  9. ^ A b Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner notes and booklet for the 100 CD edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4
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  11. ^ Cootie Williams and His Orchestra - Cherry Red / Things Ain't What They Used to Be at Discogs
  12. ↑ Jazz, Volumes 5-6 . Jazz Press, 1966, p. 87
  13. ^ Billboard Jan. 20, 1945
  14. ^ Andrew R. Martin: Steelpan Ambassadors: The US Navy Steel Band, 1957-1999 . Jackson, University of Mississippi Press 2017. p. 11
  15. ↑ Here Come the Waves in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  16. ↑ David Leander Williams: Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue . Charleston: The History Press 2014.
  17. ↑ Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - You Can't Get That No More / Mop! Mop! at Discogs
  18. ↑ See Just Remember This by Colin Bratkovich (2014), p. 470.
  19. ↑ With Dick Vance , Dave Nelson (tp), Benny Morton (trb), George James, Joe Eldridge (as), Lem Johnson (ts), Sammy Price (p), Everett Barksdale (git) Billy Taylor, Sr. (kb ), Harold Doc West (dr).
  20. ↑ Warren Evans at Discogs (English)
  21. ↑ Count Basie And His Orchestra - I Didn't Know About You / Red Bank Boogie at Discogs
  22. ↑ Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra - Remember / Tippin 'In at Discogs
  23. ↑ Cf. :: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Larry Birnbaum (2013), p. 4
  24. ↑ Discovering Great Jazz: A New Listener's Guide to the Sounds and Styles of the Top Musicians and Their Recordings on CDs, LPs, and Cassettes . Newmarket Press, 1991
  25. ↑ See also Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Larry Birnbaum (2014), p. 384.
  26. ↑ The Billboard from 1945 also says: "With Erskine Hawkins's trumpet scraping the ceiling, the band rifnng, and pianist Ace Harris applying a bite to the lyrics, there is plenty of musical excitement set off with the spinning."
  27. ↑ Mills Brothers - Put Another Chair At The Table / I Wish at Discogs
  28. ↑ Larry Richards: African American Films Through 1959: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Filmography Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Co. 2015, p. 89.
  29. ↑ Richard Koechli: The Forgotten King of the Blues - Tampa Red: The Comprehensive Biography! . 2017.
  30. ↑ Count Basie And His Orchestra - Taps Miller / Jimmy's Blues at Discogs
  31. ↑ See Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie . 2016
  32. ↑ Columbia 36837; Orchestra directed by Mitchell Ayres.
  33. ↑ See Mr. B: The Music and Life of Billy Eckstine by Cary Ginell (2013)
  34. ↑ Joshua Berrett, Louis G. Bourgois, III: The Musical World of JJ Johnson , Lanham (SC): Scaregrow Press 2002, p. 40.
  35. ↑ See Rock Obituaries: Knocking On Heaven's Door by Nick Talevski (2010).
  36. ↑ See California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West , edited by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, Eddie S. Meadows. Berkeley: University of California Press 1998, p. 225
  37. ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, p. 177
  38. ↑ See Just Remember This by Colin Bratkovich (2014), p. 4335