Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950

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Billboard Top R&B Records of 1950 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. [1]

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year-end [1] 		Juke box
year-end [1] 		TitleArtist(s)Label
12"Pink Champagne" Joe Liggins and His "Honeydrippers" Specialty
24"Double Crossing Blues" Johnny Otis Quintette (vocals by The Robins and Little Esther)Savoy
310"I Need You So" Ivory Joe Hunter M-G-M
420"Hard Luck Blues" Roy Brown Deluxe
58"Cupid's Boogie"Little Esther (with Mel Walker and Johnny Otis Orchestra)Savoy
61"I Almost Lost My Mind"Ivory Joe HunterM-G-M
711"Well Oh Well" Tiny Bradshaw King
89"Blue Light Boogie" Louis Jordan Decca
93"For You My Love" Larry Darnell Regal
1015"Mistrustin' Blues" Little Esther, Mel Walker (accompanied by The Johnny Otis Orchestra)Savoy
115"Every Day I Have the Blues" Lowell Fulson Swingtime
126"Blue Shadows"Lowell FulsonSwingtime
1313"Anytime, Any Place, Anywhere" Joe Morris Atlantic
1414"Why Do Things Happen to Me?" Roy Hawkins Modern
157"Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole Capitol
16NR"I Wanna Be Loved" Dinah Washington Mercury
1712"Please Send Me Someone to Love" Percy Mayfield Specialty
18NR"I Love My Baby" Larry Darnell Regal
1923"Saturday Night Fish Fry" Louis Jordan Decca
20NR"Cry, Cry, Baby"Ed WileySittin' In
2124"Teardrops from My Eyes" Ruth Brown Atlantic
2225"Love Don't Love Nobody"Roy BrownDeLuxe
2316"The Fat Man" Fats Domino Imperial
24NR"My Baby's Gone"Charles BrownAladdin
2518"Information Blues" Roy Milton Specialty
26NR"I'm Yours to Keep"Herb FisherModern
2729"It Isn't Fair" Dinah Washington Mercury
2822"I'll Get Along Somehow"Larry DarnellRegal
29NR"Bad, Bad Whiskey" Amos Milburn Aladdin
30NR"Deceivin' Blues"Little Esther and Mel Walker (with Johnny Otis Orchestra)Savoy
NR17"Rag Mop" Lionel Hampton Decca
NR19"I'll Never Be Free"Paul Gayten, Annie LaurieRegal
NR21"Three Times Seven"Jewel KingImperial
NR26"I Quit My Pretty Mama"Ivory Joe HunterKing
NR27"Rag Mop"Doc SausageRegal
NR28"School Days"Louis JordanDecca
NR29"It Isn't Fair"Dinah WashingtonMercury
NR30"Sittin' on It All the Time" Wynonie Harris King

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "The Year's Top Rhythm & Blues Records" (PDF). The Billboard. January 13, 1951. p. 20. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
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