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Here’s the WRFG Route 66 Playlist for Sunday, June 21, 2020
Host
John
Song
Artist
Original Album or Single & Date
Hoppin’ With Hunter
Big Jay McNeely
Exclusive Records 1949
Rock & Roll Blues
Erline “Rock & Roll” Harris
DeLuxe Records 1949
Miss Fanny Brown
Roy Brown
DeLuxe Records 1948
I Believe to My Soul
Ray Charles
Atlantic Records 1959
The Big Break
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
The Big Break! 1989
Everybody Looks Good at the Starting Line
Diane Schuur
Running On Faith 2020
Open The Door, Richard (Parts 1 & 2)
Dusty Fletcher
Savoy Records 1948
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Amos Milburn & His Chickenshackers
Aladdin Records 1953
Shake A Hand
Faye Adams
Herald Records 1953
It Hurts Me Too
Bruce Katz
Solo Ride 2019
Shame, Shame
Big Joe & The Dynaflows
Layin’ In The Alley 1994
The Thrill Is Gone
Roy Hawkins
Modern Records 1951
Woke Up This Morning (My Baby She Was Gone)
B.B. King
RPM Records 1953
The Way That Young Lover’s Do
Van Morrison & Joey DeFrancesco
You’re Driving Me Crazy 2018
A Lover’s Blues
Margie Hendrix
Tangerine Records 1967
COUNTDOWN – “What’s Hot In Harlem”
Cash Box Magazine’s First R&B Chart
Tracking The Most Played Songs On Jukeboxes In Harlem, New York
For The Week Ending June 24, 1946
# 10 Stardust
Howard McGhee & His Band
Aladdin Records 1945
#9 Beware
Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1946
#8 That’s The Groovy Thing
Earl Bostic & His Orchestra
Gotham Records 1946
#7 Driftin’ Blues
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers w/ Charles Brown
Philo Records 1945
#6 Prisoner of Love
Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra
National Records 1945
#5 Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’
Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1950
#4 The Gypsy
The Ink Spots
Decca Records 1946
#3 What Is This Thing Called Love?
Billie Holiday
Decca Records 1945
#2 On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
Decca Records 1944
#1 Stone Cold Dead In The Market Place (He Had It Coming)
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1946
Resources
CashBox R&B Singles Charts 1940s
Internet Archive’s CashBox Magazine Collection
Almost Grown
Chuck Berry
…Is On Top 1959
I Can’t Wait
Roomful Of Blues
In A Roomful Of Blues 2020
Gabbin’ Blues
Big Maybelle
Okeh Records 1952
No Rollin Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon
Modern Records 1949
The Heart Of Saturday Night
Diana Krall
The Very Best Of Diana Krall 2007
New Basie Blues
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Mercury Records 1952
Good Rockin’ Daddy
Marcia Ball, Lou Ann Barton & Angela Strehli
Dreams Come True 1990
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Tag (Your It)
Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Nine Lives 2005
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