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For our feature, we count down the Top 10 R&B songs in Detroit,
Michigan, for this week in 1950.
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Jackson’s Blues Don Johnson & His Band Specialty Records 1949
Good Daddy Blues Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1949
Fool At The Wheel
Deuces Of Rhythm & Tempo Toppers (lLittle Richard)
Peacock Records 1953
On The Sentimental Side Catherine Russell & Sean Mason My Ideal 2024
Dutch Kitchen Bounce Arnett Cobb Apollo Records 1948
I Want A Little Girl Delbert McClinton Outdated Emotion 2022
Back Breaking Blues Big Joe Turner Aladdin Records 1950
All of Me Andra Day The United States vs. Billie Holiday 2021
Sleep Earl Bostic King Records 1951
Rocks In My Bed
Planet D Nonet
Echoes of Harlem: A Tribute To Duke Ellington, Vol. 2 2024
Dat Dere Oscar Brown Jr. Sin & Soul …And Then Some 1961
T-Bone Boogie T-Bone Walker Rhumboogie Records 1945
Guitar Shuffle Lowell Fulson Swing Time Records 1952
A Letter Home Memphis Slim King Records 1949
You Run Your Mouth & I’ll Run My Business
Louis Jordan
Decca Records 1940
Ain’t That Just Like A Woman
B.B. King
Let The Good Times Roll: The Music Of Louis Jordan 1999
Saved LaVern Baker Live In Hollywood 1991
WHAT’S HOT IN THE MOTOR CITY?
THE TOP 10 R&B SONGS FOR JANUARY 21, 1950
AS REPORTED TO CASH BOX MAGAZINE
10-Landlord Blues
Ivory Joe Hunter
Atlantic Records 1949
9-All She Wants to Do Is Rock
Wynonie Harris
King Records 1949
8-Country Boy
Dave Bartholemew
De Luxe Records 1947
7-Blues Stay Away From Me
Lonnie Johnson
King Records 1949
6-Why Don’t You Haul Off & Love Me
Bull Moose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats
King Records 1949
5-Sneakin’ Around
Rudy Render
Decca Records 1949
4-For You My Love
Larry Darnell
Regal Records 1949
3-Boogie At Midnight
Roy Brown & His Mighty Mighty Men
DeLuxe Records 1949
2-I Quit My Pretty Mama
Ivory Joe Hunter
King Records 1950
1-Sittin’ On It All The Time
Wynonie Harris
King Records 1950
They Raided The Joint Helen Humes Mercury Records 1947
Black Night Charles Brown Just A Lucky So And So 1994
Trouble In Mind Aretha Franklin Yeah! 1965
Busted Ray Charles & Count Basie Ray Sings Basie Swings 1973
That Old Black Magic
Louis Prima & Keely Smith
Capitol Records 1958
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005
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