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Billboard Top Folk Records of 1949

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The Billboard Top Folk Records of 1949 is made up of two year-end charts compiled by Billboard magazine ranking the year's top folk records based on record sales and juke box plays.[1] In 1949, country music records were included on, and dominated, the Billboard folk records chart.

Sales
year-end[1]
Juke box
year-end[1]
Peak[note 1][2] Title Artist(s) Label
1 1 1 "Lovesick Blues" Hank Williams M-G-M
2 2 1 "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
3 4 1 "I'm Throwing Rice (At The Girl That I Love)" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
4 3 "Slipping Around" Margaret Whiting-Jimmy Wakely Capitol
5 5 2 "Wedding Bells" Hank Williams M-G-M
6 13 1 "Candy Kisses" George Morgan Columbia
7 6 "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" Wayne Raney King
8 NR 1 "Bouquet of Roses" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
9 9 "I Love You So Much It Hurts" Jimmy Wakely Capitol
10 7 "Tennessee Saturday Night" Red Foley Decca
11 14 2 "The Echo of Your Footsteps" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
12 10 1 "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" Jimmy Wakely Capitol
13 8 1 "One Kiss Too Many" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
14 11 "Slipping Around" Ernest Tubb Decca
15 16 "Tennessee Border" Red Foley Decca
16 12 1 "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" Eddy Arnold RCA Victor
17 21 "Blues, Stay Away From Me" Delmore Brothers King
18 18 "I'm Bitin' My Fingernails and Thinking of You" Ernest Tubb-Andrews Sisters Decca
19 23 "Please Don't Let Me Love You" George Morgan Columbia
20 25 "Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello" Ernest Tubb Decca

See also

Notes

  1. ^ This column recites the record's peak position on Billboard's weekly charts.

References

  1. ^ a b c "The Year's Top Folk Songs". The Billboard. January 14, 1950. p. 18.
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn (1995). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. ISBN 0823076326.