List of singles in the Race Records Charts 1946

Notes on using the list

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 Race Records Charts in 1946 contains all songs by singles who were listed in the Billboard's Most Played Juke Box Race Records category in the calendar year 1946 . 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 .

Initially as a Harlem Hit Parade and through sales of records, Billboard has been determining charts for such race records since 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 1944 record stores were opened in Chicago and Newark, New Jersey , and then throughout the United States.

Since February 17, 1945 published billboard instead of these sales charts in a chart identifying the weekly most-played songs 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 1946 a total of 63 songs were placed.

list

See also : List of Singles on Billboard Charts (1946)  and List of Number One Hits in the United States (1946)

Interpreter	Title Author (s)	Chart entry	Weeks	HP	Label number	Remarks
Joe Liggins	The Honeydripper Joe Liggins	08/11/1945	26th	1	Exclusive 207
Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra	Beula's boogie Lionel Hampton	October 19, 1945	9	2	Decca 18719
Joe Liggins	I've Got a Right to Cry Joe Liggins	05/01/1946	2	2	Exclusive 210	I've Got a Right to Cry was re-released on Specialty Records (#SP 338) in 1949 .
Wynonie Harris with Illinois Jacquet & His All-Stars	Wynonie's Blues Wynonie Harris	05/01/1946	2	3	Apollo 262	Wynonie Harris, known as "Mr. Blues “, was one of the pioneers of rhythm & blues in the period after the Second World War. From 1946 to early 1952, he was a dominant force on the R&B charts
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 .
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Buzz Me Fleecy Moore , Dave Dexter	01/12/1946	13	1	Decca 18734	Slang term for "call me"
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.
Pearl Bailey with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra	Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time) Allan Roberts , Doris Fisher	01/12/1946	1	4th	Columbia36881	Fifteen Years (And I'm Still Serving Time) was the B-side of Tired .
Nat King Cole Trio	Come to baby, do! Inez James , Sid Miller	01/12/1946	2	3	Capitol 224	Come to baby, do! was the B-side of The Frim Fram Sauce , a song by Joe Ricardel & Sid Miller.
Ella Mae Morse	Buzz Me Fleecy Moore , Dave Dexter	01/26/1946	4th	2	Capitol228	Ella Mae Morse's version of the Louis Jordan hit hit the billiards pop chart at # 15 in January 1946.
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Don't Worry 'bout That Mule Charlie Stewart, Duke Groaner, Fleecie Moore , Wild Bill Davis	01/26/1946	10	2	Decca 1873	Jordan's R&B song shouldn't be confused with Glenn Barber's country song Don't Worry 'Bout the Mule (Just Load the Wagon) .
Delta Rhythm Boys	A Sittin 'and a Rockin' Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn , Lee Gaines	05/01/1946	3	3	Decca 18739	An Ellington / Strayhorn title that Lee Gaines, member of the Delta Rhythm Boys, wrote the lyrics to.
Cab Calloway	The Honeydripper Joe Liggins	02/01/1946	1	4th	Columbia 36894	Another cover version of one of the biggest hits of the year.
Helen Humes & Bill Doggett Octet	Be-Baba-Leba Humes	December 15, 1945	6th	7th	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".
Lionel Hampton	Hey Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Curley Hamner , Lionel Hampton	03/02/1946	24	1	Decca 18754	The post-war version of Cologne read: “ Dä Papp it still em Kreech, de Mamm doesn't have it easy. Mer Pänz mer steal crevices and do some prank and sing: Hey ba ba re bop - hey ba ba re bop. "
Johnny Moore 's Three Blazers	Driftin 'Blues Three Blazers	03/02/1946	23	2	Philo P-112	Drifting Blues was the best-selling record Johnny Moore's Three Blazers ever made, but they never made more than the original $ 800.
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Salt Pork, West Virginia Fleecie Moore , Bill Tennyson	03/02/1946	16	2	Decca 18762	Salt Pork, West Virginia was the B-side of Reconversion Blues , a song that soon hit the Race Records charts as well.
The Blues Woman	Voo It! Voo It! William Frosty Pyles	03/02/1946	5	4th	Juke Box JB-5025	With Marion Abernathy (voc), Allen Durham (trb), Buddy Banks (ts), Eddie Beal (p), William "Frosty" Pyles (git), Ernie Shepard (kb), Nat "Monk" McFay (dr).
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Reconversion Blues Fleecie Moore , Steve Graham	March 9, 1946	7th	2	Decca 18762	" Can't wait to buy a new automobile and a pair of two-tone shoes. / l can walk right past my draft board, / and l won't get no dirty looks, l can go down to see my grocer, without taking my ration books, l got those reconversion blues "
The Mills Brothers	Don't Be a Baby, Baby Buddy Kaye , Howard Steiner	03/30/1946	9	3	Decca 18753	" Don't be a baby, baby / 'Bout a love that passed you by / But if you have to, baby / Go ahead and have your cry "
Cats'n'Jammers Three (Vocal by Bill Samuels)	I Cover the Waterfront Johnny Green , Edward Heyman	04/06/1946	2	5	Mercury 2003	Samuels, who comes from the state of Mississippi, founded the trio Cats'n'Jammer Three in Chicago, with whom he wrote the popular novelty song Open the Door, Richard! and recorded a cover version of the ballad I Cover the Waterfront .
Elle Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	The Frim Fram Sauce Joe Ricardel	04/13/1946	2	4th	Decca 23496	B-side of the single You Won't Be Satisfied .
Roy Milton	RM Blues Roy Milton	04/27/1946	24	3	Juke Box JB-504	The single also appeared on Milton's own label, Roy Milton Record Co.
Billy Eckstine	Prisoner of Love Leo Robin	05/04/1946	2	3	National 9017	Prisoner of Love was popular in the US in 1946, especially in the versions of Perry Como and the Ink Spots .
Louis Jordan	Beware Morry Lasco , Fleecie Moore, Dick Adams	05/04/1946	9	2	Decca 18818	As Lucius Brokenshire "Louis" Jordan, the singer and bandeader had the lead role in the musical film of the same name directed by Bud Pollard.
Johnny Moore 's Three Blazers	I know three blazers	05/04/1946	1	2	Phil P-112	The Three Blazers were Eddie Williams (bass), Johnny Moore (guitar, vocals) and Charles Brown (piano, vocals).
Andy Kirk Orchestra & The Jubilaires	I know John Jennings, Ted Brooks	05/11/1946	15th	2	Decca 18782	As saxophonist Joe Evans recalled, “The first recording I worked with the Andy Kirk Orchestra on, which became a hit, had the Jubilaires singing“ I Know ”. Amazingly, the artist and repertoire man didn't want to record this song, but Andy insisted. "
Slim Gaillard Trio	Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-ti) Slim Gaillard, Earn Brown	05/11/1946	1	5	Cadet CR 201	Slim Gaillard Trio with Zutty Singleton (drums) and Tiny Brown (bass).
The Ink Spots	The Gypsy Billy Reid	06/01/1946	12	1	Decca 18817	The Gypsy was one of the big hits of 1946; the song hit the Billbaord pop charts in versions by Dinah Shore , Ink Spots and Sammy Kaye .
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin ' Joe Greene	06/08/1946	7th	3	Decca 18818	In 1959, Ray Charles was also successful in the US charts with this Jordan number.
Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra	Shorty's Got to Go Lucky Millinder	06/08/1946	4th	5	Decca 18667	Shorty's Got to Go was the last chart success of Lucky Millinder and his 16-piece orchestra.
Nat King Cole Trio	(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 Bobby Troup	06/08/1946	10	3	Capitol 256
Bull Moose Jackson & His Orchestra	I Know Who Threw the Whiskey (in the Well) Eddie DeLange, John Benson Brooks	06/29/1946	7th	4th	Queen 4 ^ 116	Bull Moose Jackson's cover version of the 1945 hit song Lucky Millinder.
Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra	Sneakin 'Out Bobby Smith (musician) Bobby Smith	06/29/1946	2	6th	Victor 20-1883	The Erskine Hawkins Band had three hits in 1946, including Sneakin 'Out , a composition by alto saxophonist Bobby Smith (who had also written Tippin' In ). Smith is also the soloist alongside contributions from tenor saxophonist Julian Dash , pianist Ace Harris , trumpeter Bobby Johnson and the band leader himself.
Louis Jordan & Ella Fitzgerald	Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He'd Had it Coming) Wilmoth Houdini	06/29/1946	20th	1	Decca 23546	The origins of the song are on the island of Barbados ; it was a folk song that was alternatively called Payne Dead or Murder in the Market .
The Ink Spots	Prisoner of Love Leo Robin	07/06/1946	1	5	Decca 18864
Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra (Vocal Chorus by Arthur Prysock )	They All Say I'm the Biggest Fool Buddy Johnson	07/06/1946	1	5	Decca 11000	B-side of Fine Brown Frame .
Erskine Hawkins	I've Got a Right to Cry Joe Liggins	07/13/1946	10	3	Victor 20-1902	I've Got a Right to Cry , the B-side of Tippin 'In , was a cover version of the hit Joe Liggins. Laura Washington did the singing.
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan	Peetotie Pie Ella Fitzgerald	07/27/1946	2	3	Decca 23546
Big Joe Turner	My Gal's a Jockey Joe Turner	08/03/1946	1	6th	National 4002	With Wild Bill Moore 's Lucky Seven Band, with Warren Brocken (tp), Wild Bill Moore, Lloyd Harrison (ts), Al Williams (p), Teddy Bunn (git), Shifty Henry (kb) and Alray Kidd (dr) .
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Vaughn Horton , Denver Darling , Milt Gabler	08/17/1946	26th	1	Decca 23810
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	That Chick's Too Young to Fry Jimmy Hilliard	08/31/1946	11	3	Decca 23610	Jordan appeared as Schyler Jarvis in the musical film Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947, directed by William Forest Crouch), in which u. a. this song was also performed. The leading roles were played by Louis Jordan, June Richmond and Milton Woods .
Billy Eckstine	You Call It Madness Russ Columbo , Con Conrad	07.09.1946	1	3	National 9019
Roosevelt Sykes & His Original Honeydrippers	Sunny Road R. Sykes	07.09.1946	7th	2	Decca 18754	B-side of That's My Gal
Phil Harris and His Orchestra	The Darktown Poker Club Bert Williams , Will Vodery, Jean Havez	07.09.1946	1	4th	ARA 116	“There was also the Jack Benny Show with Phil Harris, who couldn't sing but made a name for himself reciting narrative poems like The Darktown Poker Club that wouldn't be politically correct today, but at least not with the scatological crap were filled, which is mandatory in current rap productions [...] "
Wynonie Harris (with Johnny Olston & His All Stars)	Playful baby Helen Miller	09/29/1946	3	2	Apollo 372	Wynonie Harris (vcl) is accompanied by Jimmy Moorman (tp), Johnnie Allston (ts), King Fleming (p), Herman Mitchell (git), Clarence Jones (kb), Al Cake Wichard (dr).
The Ink Spots	To Each His Own Jay Livingston	09/29/1946	3	3	Decca 23615	A song from the Paramount production Mutterherz . In 1946 the song was also featured in the versions of Eddy Howard (# 1), Freddy Martin (# 1), Tony Martin (# 4) and The Modernaires (# 5) on the Billboard pop charts . The Ink Spots also made it to # 1.
Luis Russell	The Very Thought of You Ray Noble	05.10.1946	3	3	Apollo 1012	A song from the 1930s that became a popular jazz standard in the mid-1940s .
Arthur Crudup	So Glad You're Mine Crudup	05.10.1946	3	3	Victor 29-1949	“Blues singer with guitar and drums” was the label on the 78s ; ten years later Elvis Presley covered the R&B title Crudups.
Joe Liggins	Tanja [[]]	05.10.1946	7th	3	Exclusive 231
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Ain't That Just Like a Woman (They'll Do It Every Time) Claude Demetrius , Fleecie Moore	October 19, 1946	17th	1	Decca 23669
Arthur Crudup	Ethel Mae Arthur Crudup	11/09/1946	1	4th	Victor 20-1949	B-side of So Glad You're Mine .
Andy Kirk & The Jubilaires	I Don't Know What I'd Ever Do Without You Lee Kuhn	11/09/1946	1	5	Decca 18916	The Jubalaires (also Royal Harmony Singers ) were a successful vocal quartet in the United States in the 1930s and 40s.
Julia Lee & Her Boy Friends	Gotta Gimme Whatcha Out Julia Lee	11/18/1946	7th	3	Capitol 308	Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends consisted of Julia Lee (vcl, p), Geechie Smith (tp), Henry Bridges (ts), Nappy Lamare (git), Billy Hadnott (kb) and Sam "Baby" Lovett (dr).
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra with Avery Parrish , piano	After Hours, E. Hawkins	11/18/1946	4th	3	Victor 20-1979	After the previous chart success with I've Got a Right to Cry , RCA-Victor followed up with a title from the Hawkins band that was written in 1940. After Hours remained unpublished due to shellac rationing during World War II.
Bill Samuels & The Cats 'n' Jammer Three	Port Wine B. Samuels	11/18/1946	1	5	Mercury 8012	Bill Samuels (p, voc), Adam Lamberts (git), Sylvester Hicks (or Hickman?) (Kb, voc) and Hillard Brown (dr).
Nat King Cole Trio	The Christmas Song Mel Tormé , Robert Wells	11/23/1946	6th	3	Capitol311
Johnny Moore 's Three Blazers	So Long Irving Melsher , Remus Harris	11/18/1946	1	4th	Modern Music 143	With R&B hits like Drifting Blues, Sunny Road, So Long, New Orleans Blues, and Changeable Woman Blues , Johnny Moore's Three Blazers were the springboard to rum for rhythm and blues stylist Charles Brown .
Nat King Cole Trio	(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons William Best , Deek Watson	11/18/1946	7th	3	Capitol 304	Artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Eddy Howard , Perry Como , and Dinah Shore were also successful with the song in the Billbarods pop charts.
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Ain't Nobody Here, But Us Chickens Joan Whitney , Alex Kramer	December 14, 1946	27	4th	Decca 23741	"You can experience the trickster hero character used in Louis Jordan's hit song" Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens, "which takes over the lyrics of an old field song that was popular with slaves."
Roy Milton	Milton Boogie Roy Milton	December 14, 1946	1	4th	Juke Box JB-503	“For the rhythm and blues artists of the post-war era, boogie woogie records were a bit like business cards. There was Cecil Boogie ( Cecil Gant ), T-Bone Boogie ( T-Bone Walker ), Milton Boogie (Roy Milton), Amos Boogie ( Amos Milbum ), Wynonie's Boogie "[...]
Louis Jordan	Let the Good Times Roll Sam Theard , Fleecie Moore	December 23, 1946	25th	4th	Decca 23741
Lenny Lewis & His Orchestra	Blue Flame James "Jiggs" Noble	10/28/1946	1	5	Queen / king 5133	Cover version of the jazz track popular with Woody Herman and His Orchestra .

Web links

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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 17, 1945, p. 18
5. ↑ Nelson George: Black Music Charts: What's in a Name? . Billboard. Vol. 94 H. 25-26 June 1982, p. 10
6. ↑ See Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-hop by Frank W. Hoffmann (2005), p. 118
7. ↑ Max décharné: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of hipster slang . New York: Broadway Books 2002, p. 23
8. ↑ The King Cole Trio - The Frim Fram Sauce / Come To Baby, Do! at Discogs
9. ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, p. 177
10. ↑ Heinz Monheim: "Bombs, Chewing Gum and Swing": Cologne between war and peace . Rass, 2005
11. ^ Chip Deffaa: Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues . Urbana & Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1996, p. 112
12. ↑ The Blues Woman - Voo-It! Voo-It! / Cryin 'Blues The Blues Woman - Voo-It! Voo-It! / Cryin 'Blues at Discogs
13. ↑ Michael Fedo: Zenith City: Stories from Duluth . University of Minnesota Press 2014.
14. ↑ Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - You Won't Be Satisfied / The Frim Fram Sauce at Discogs
15. ^ Roy Milton - RM Blues / Groovy Blues at Discogs
16. ↑ Beware the Internet Movie Database (English)
17. ↑ Joe Evans, Christopher Brooks Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues . 2008, p. 74.
18. ^ Marv Goldberg: More Than Words Can Say: The Ink Spots and Their Music . Lanham: Svaregrow Press 1998, p. 160
19. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Joel Whitburn. Record Research, 2007
20. ↑ Michael Lydon: Ray Charles: Man and Music, Updated Commemorative Edition . New York: Routledge 2004, p. 43.
21. ^ ^{A b c} Bob Porter: Soul Jazz : Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975 . 2016
22. ↑ Timothy Dodge: Rhythm and Blues Goes Calypso . 2019, p. 152.
23. ↑ Buddy Johnson: They All Say I'm the Biggest Fool at Discogs
24. ↑ Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra - Tippin 'In / I've Got a Right to Cry at Discogs
25. ↑ ^{a b c} Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 19, 2019)
26. ↑ Michael R. Pitts: Astor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965 . Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Col. 2019
27. ↑ Reet, Petite, and Gone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
28. ↑ Robert L. Pirtle: To Right the Wrong Unrightable Xlibris 2007, p 91
29. ↑ In 1914 Will Vodery wrote the song with Bert Williams and Jean Havez for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1914. Cf. Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theater from 1786 to 1923: Volume 3 , by John Franceschina (2014)
30. ^ The Mercury Labels: The 1945-1956 era , edited by Michel Ruppli, Ed Novitsky. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press 1993
31. ^ Frank W. Hoffmann Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-hop 2005. P. 143.
32. ^ Class: The Anthology , edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Michael J. Roberts. Wiley Brackwell 2018, p. 121
33. ↑ Larry Birnbaum: Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll . 2013, p. 118.