In the late forties the Harlem Hit Parade became the Billboard "R&B" charts. Joe Liggins’ song “The Honeydripper” was one of the first R&B chart hits. Sister Rosetta Tharpe had a hit with "Strange Things Happening Every Day", played as one of the first the electric guitar using heavy distortion (she was an example for Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards…). Big Joe Turner was a blues shouter from Kansas known for “My Gal’s A Jockey” (according to Doc Pomus “Rock And Roll would have never happened without him.” And finally there’s Stick McGhee with “Drinkin’ Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee, one of the Rhythm And Blues songs that later evaluated to Rock ‘N Roll songs.

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  • 1. Joe Liggins - the Honeydripper
  • 2. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Da
  • 3. Louis Jordan - Caldonia
  • 4. Roy Brown - Long 'Bout Midnight
  • 5. Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra - Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
  • 6. Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends - King Size Papa
  • 7. Eddie Vinson - Ole Maid Boogie
  • 8. Arthur Crudup - So Glad You're Mine
  • 9. Bull Moose Jackson - I Know Who Threw the Whiskey In the
  • 10. Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight
  • 11. T-Bone Walker - Call It Stormy Monday
  • 12. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Stone Cold Dead In the M
  • 13. Johnny Otis Band - Harlem Nocturne
  • 14. Ella Johnson With Buddy Johnson - That's the Stuff You Go
  • 15. Bull Moose Jackson - I Love You, Yes I Do
  • 16. Helen Humes With the Bill Doggett Octet - Be-Baba-Leba
  • 17. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Drifting Blues
  • 18. Joe Turner - My Gal's a Jockey
  • 19. Nellie Lutcher - He's a Real Gone Guy

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  • 1. Chuck Willis - Let's Jump Tonight
  • 2. Dinah Washington - Baby Get Lost
  • 3. Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
  • 4. Roy Milton - R.M. Blues
  • 5. Ruth Brown - Teardrops From My Eyes
  • 6. Lonnie Johnson - Tomorrow Night
  • 7. Amos Milburn - Chicken Shack Boogie
  • 8. Nellie Lutcher - Fine Brown Frame
  • 9. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Up Above My Head
  • 10. Joe Liggins - Pink Champagne
  • 11. The Orioles - It's Too Soon To Know
  • 12. Big Jay McNeely - Deacon's Hop
  • 13. Joe Morris (Laurie Tate, Vocal) - Anytime, Anyplace, Anyw
  • 14. Amos Milburn - I'm Just a Fool In Love
  • 15. Stick McGhee - Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
  • 16. Dinah Washington - I Wanna Be Loved
  • 17. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans
  • 18. Ruth Brown - So Long