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Happy Mother’s Day! This week we celebrate mom with a countdown of
the Top 15 R&B songs in the country on Mother’s Day 1949!
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Junior Jives Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Specialty Records 1950
Fools Are Getting Scarcer Duke Robillard Band They Called It Rhythm & Blues 2022
Kidney Stew Blues Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson Mercury Records 1947
Flying Home Johnny Otis Spirit of the Black Territory Bands 1992
Lonesome & Blue Annie Laurie Okeh Records 1952
Strange Nat King Cole Capitol Records 1953
Cubana Bop Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra RCA Victor 1948
Someday Sweetheart Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Exclusive Records 1946
He May Be Your Man Helen Humes Philo Records 1945
She’s Dynamite B.B. King R.P.M. Records 1951
The Spider And The Fly Lucky Millinder Decca Records 1947
Gold Tooth The Groovy Four Take a Walk With… 2024
Come Rain Or Come Shine Ray Charles The Genius 1959
Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs. Murphys Ovaltine
Harry ‘The Hipster’ Gibson
Boogie Woogie In Blue 1944
Boogie Woogie Blue Plate Louis Jordan Decca Records 1947
Hurry Hurry Savannah Churchill Capitol Records 1943
It’s Obdacious Buddy Johnson Mercury Records 1955
COUNTDOWN: THE TOP 15 R&B SONGS ON MOTHER’S DAY 1949
AS REPORTED TO BILLBOARD MAGAZINE.
15-Boogie Chillen John Lee Hooker Modern Records 1948
14-Back Street Eddie Chamblee Miracle Records 1949
13-I Feel That Old Age Coming On Wynonie Harris King Records 1948
12-Tell Me So The Orioles Jubilee Records 1949
11-Cole Slaw (Sorghum Switch) Frank “Floorshow” Culley Records 1949
10-Hobo Blues John Lee Hooker Modern Records 1949
9-Little Girl Don’t Cry Bull Moose Jackson King Records 1949
8-Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee Stick McGhee Atlantic Records 1949
7-Ain’t Nobody’s Business Jimmy Witherspoon Supreme Records 1949
6-Wrapped Up In A Dream Do-Re-Me Trio Reet Records 1949
5-Hold Me Baby Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1949
4-Hucklebuck Daddy Jimmy Preston Gotham Records 1949
3-Rockin’ At Midnight Roy Brown Deluxe Records 1949
2-Trouble Blues Charles Brown Aladdin Records 1949
1-The Hucklebuck Paul Williams Savoy Records 1948
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005