Rub-A-Dub-Dub (Hank Thompson song)

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"Rub-A-Dub-Dub"
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Single by Hank Thompson
from the album Songs of the Brazos Valley
B-side "I'll Sign My Heart Away"
Released1953
Recorded1953
Genre Country
Length2:16
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Hank Thompson, Billy Gray
Hank Thompson singles chronology
"No Help Wanted"
(1953)		"Rub-A-Dub-Dub"
(1953)		"Yesterday's Girl"
(1953)

"Rub-A-Dub-Dub" is a country music song written by Hank Thompson, performed by Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys and released on the Capitol label (catalog no. 2445). It is based on the 18th century nursery rhyme, "Rub-a-dub-dub". It was Thompson's second hit record based on a nursery rhyme, following his 1948 recording of "Humpty Dumpty Heart".

It debuted on Billboard magazine's country and western chart on May 23, 1953, spent three weeks at the No. 3 spot based on juke box plays (No. 2 based on disc jockey plays, No. 5 based on sales), and remained on the chart for 20 weeks. [1] It was also ranked as the No. 5 record on Billboard's 1953 year-end country chart based on juke box plays (No. 13 based on retail sales). [2]

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These are lists of Billboard magazine's "Top Country & Western Records" and "Top Country & Western Artists" for 1950, ranked by retail sales and juke box plays.

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Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1952 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays.

Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1953 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales and juke box plays.

Billboard Top Country & Western Records of 1955 is made up of three year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top country and western records based on record sales, disc jockey plays, and juke box plays.

References

  1. ↑ Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 319. ISBN   0823076326.
  2. ↑ "1953's Top C & W Records". The Billboard. December 19, 1953. p. 29.


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