Billboard Top R&B Records of 1949 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top rhythm and blues records based on record sales and juke box plays.
Retailyear-end Juke boxyear-end Title Artist(s) Label1 1 "The Hucklebuck" Paul Williams Savoy2 2 "Trouble Blues" Charles Brown Aladdin3 3 "Saturday Night Fish Fry" Louis Jordan Decca4 5 "Ain't Nobody's Business" Jimmy Witherspoon Supreme5 6 "Little Girl, Don't Cry" Bull Moose Jackson King6 7 "Tell Me So" The Orioles Jubilee7 4 "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" Stick McGhee & Buddies Atlantic8 13 "Hold Me, Baby" Amos Milburn Aladdin9 7 "Chicken Shack Boogie" Amos Milburn Aladdin10 11 "Boogie Chillen'" John Lee Hooker Modern11 16 "Baby Get Lost" Dinah Washington Mercury12 12 "Rockin' at Midnight" Roy Brown DeLuxe13 15 "Wrapped Up in a Dream" Do Ray & Me Commodore14 14 "Bewildered" Amos Milburn Aladdin15 10 "All She Wants to Do Is Rock" Wynonie Harris King16 9 "Bewildered" Red Miller Trio Bullet17 19 "Close Your Eyes" Herb Lance Sittin' In18 NR "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee" Wynonie Harris King19 NR "The Hucklebuck" Roy Milton Specialty20 20 "Confession Blues" Maxin Trio (Ray Charles) Downbeat21 18 "Broken Hearted" Eddie Williams Supreme22 21 "The Deacon's Hop" Big Jay McNeely Savoy23 NR "In the Middle of the Night" Amos Milburn Aladdin24 23 "Blue and Lonesome" Memphis Slim Miracle25 24 "D'Natural Blues" Lucky Millinder RCA Victor26 25 "Roomin' House Boogie" Amos Milburn Aladdin27 17 "Pot Likker" Todd Rhodes Orchestra King28 NR "Sneaking Around" Rudy Render London29 29 "Hobo Blues" John Lee Hooker Modern30 NR "Cole Slaw" Louis Jordan DeccaNR 22 "Beans and Cornbread" Louis Jordan DeccaNR 26 "A Little Bird Told Me" Paula Watson SupremeNR 27 "It's Midnight" Little Willie Littlefield ModernNR 28 "Back Street" Eddie Chamblee MiracleNR 29 "Texas Hop" Pee Wee Crayton Modern
See also
Billboard year-end top 30 singles of 1949 1949 in music
References