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Today, we mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day by counting down the
Top 10 R&B Songs for June 6, 1944 as reported to Billboard Magazine.
WRFG PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Paradise Squat Count Basie Mercury Records 1952
Rock & Roll Blues Erline “Rock & Roll” Harris DeLuxe Records 1949
Oh How I Miss You Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Specialty Records 1952
I Found Me A Sugar Daddy The Nic Nacs w/ Mickey Champion R.P.M. Records 1950
Creeping (Late Freight) Sonny Thompson Quintet Miracle Records 1948
How High the Moon Robin McKelle Impressions of Ella 2023
Sad Feeling Lionel Hampton w/ Little Jimmy Scott Decca Records 1950
Annie Laurie Tiny Grimes Quintet Atlantic Records 1948
My Babe Little Walter & His Night Cats Checker Records 1955
Save The Bones For Henry Jones Lou Rawls & Ray Charles Just Between Us 1988
I’m Sticking With You Baby Catherine Russell Bring It Back 2014
Come Love John Hammond Ready For Love 2003
Topsy, Part 2 Cozy Cole & Alan Hartwell Big Band Love Records 1958
Got My Mo-Jo Working Ann Cole Baton Records 1956
Sugar Sweet Muddy Waters Chess Records 1955
Hard Luck Blues Roy Brown DeLuxe Records 1950
Hop, Skip & Jump Roy Milton Specialty Records 1947
Love Don’t Love Nobody Kid Ramos West Coast House Party 2000
Million Dollar Secret Helen Humes Let The Good Times Roll 1973
Never No More
Johnny Adams
Walking on a Tightrope – The Songs of Percy Mayfield 1989
THE R&B TOP 10 FOR D-DAY, JUNE 6, 1944
10-Lester Leaps Again
Lester Young & His Kansas City Five
Keynote Recordings 1944
9-I Learned a Lesson, I’ll Never Forget
The Five Red Caps
Beacon Records 1943
8-I’ll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
The Ink Spots
Decca Records 1944
7-Someone
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
RCA Bluebird Series 1942
6-When My Man Comes Home
Buddy Johnson/& His Orchestra featuring Ella Johnson
Decca Records 1944
5-My Little Brown Book
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
RCA Bluebird Series 1942
4-I Can’t See For Lookin’
King Cole Trio
Capitol Records 1944
3-(Cherry) Red Blues
Cootie Williams & His Orchestra w/ Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
Hit Records 1944
2-G.I. Jive
Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Decca Records 1944
1-Straighten Up & Fly Right
King Cole Trio
Capitol Records 1943
Just a Country Boy Jimmy Witherspoon Modern Records 1950
Bright Lights, Big City Duke Robillard World Full Of Blues 2007
Hidin’ In The Sticks Paula Watson Supreme Records 1948
(sign off)
Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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