Billboard 3rd Annual Music-Record Poll 1948
Published on: 1st January 1949
Top Popular Records of 1948
* A Tree in the Meadow - Margaret Whiting(According to Disk Jokey: 3)
* Baby Face - Art Mooney
(According to Disk Jokey: 18, Retail Sales: 23)
* Ballerina - Vaughn Monroe
(According to Disk Jokey: 12, Retail Sales: 13)
* Because - Perry Como
(According to Retail Sales: 24)
* Beg Your Pardon - Francis Craig
(According to Disk Jokey: 22, Retail Sales: 18)
* Beg Your Pardon - Frankie Carle
(According to Disk Jokey: 25, Retail Sales: 28)
* Bluebird of Happiness - Art Mooney
(According to Disk Jokey: 35)
* Button and Bows - Dinah Shore
(According to Disk Jokey: 23, Retail Sales: 21)
* Golden Earrings - Peggy Lee
(According to Disk Jokey: 19, Retail Sales: 22)
* How Soon - Jack Owens
(According to Disk Jokey: 29)
* How Soon - Vaughn Monroe
(According to Retail Sales: 34)
* I'll Dance at Your Wedding - Ray Noble, Buddy Clark
(According to Disk Jokey: 24, Retail Sales: 31)
* I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Alvino Rey
(According to Disk Jokey: 33)
* I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Art Mooney
(According to Disk Jokey: 6, Retail Sales: 10)
* I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover - Russ Morgan, Milt Herth
(According to Retail Sales: 33)
* It's Magic - Doris Day
(According to Disk Jokey: 15, Retail Sales: 11)
* Little White Lies - Dick Haymes
(According to Disk Jokey: 11, Retail Sales: 7)
* Love Somebody - Doris Day & Buddy Clark
(According to Disk Jokey: 4, Retail Sales: 16)
* Manana - Peggy Lee
(According to Disk Jokey: 1, Retail Sales: 2)
* Maybe You'll Be There - Gordon Jenkins
(According to Disk Jokey: 17, Retail Sales: 12)
* My Happiness - Ella Fitzgeraid
(According to Retail Sales: 24)
* My Happiness - Jon & Sondra Steele
(According to Disk Jokey: 2)
* My Happiness - The Pied Pipers
(According to Disk Jokey: 7, Retail Sales: 9)
* Nature Boy - King Cole
(According to Retail Sales: 14)
* Now Is the Hour - Bing Crosby
(According to Disk Jokey: 10, Retail Sales: 3)
* Now Is the Hour - Graciy Fields
(According to Disk Jokey: 13, Retail Sales: 17)
* Now Is the Hour - Margaret Whiting
(According to Disk Jokey: 9)
* On a Slow Boat to China - Kay Kyser
(According to Disk Jokey: 32, Retail Sales: 30)
* Sabre Dance - Woody Herman
(According to Disk Jokey: 20)
* Serenade of the Bells - Jo Stafford
(According to Disk Jokey: 30, Retail Sales: 35)
* Serenade of the Bells - Sammy Kaye
(According to Retail Sales: 25)
* Slap 'Er Down Again, Paw - Arthur Godfrey
(According to Disk Jokey: 31)
* St. Louis Blues March - Tex Beneke
(According to Retail Sales: 29)
* The Dicky-Bird Song - Freddy Martin
(According to Retail Sales: 32)
* Too Fat Polka - Arthur Godfrey
(According to Retail Sales: 23)
* Toolie Oolie Doolie - Andrews Sisters
(According to Retail Sales: 20)
* Twelfth Street Rag - Pee Wee Hunt
(According to Disk Jokey: 5, Retail Sales: 1)
* Underneath the Arches - Primo Scala's Banjo and Accordion Ork, The Keynotes
(According to Retail Sales: 29)
* Until - Tommy Dorsey
(According to Disk Jokey: 25, Retail Sales: 26)
* William Tell Overture - Spike Jones
(According to Retail Sales: 27)
* Woody Woodpecker - Kay Kyser
(According to Disk Jokey: 14, Retail Sales: 15)
* Woody Woodpecker - Sportsmen, Mel Blanc
(According to Disk Jokey: 21, Retail Sales: 30)
* You Call Everybody Darlin' - Al Trace
(According to Disk Jokey: 8, Retail Sales: 8)
* You Call Everybody Darlin' - Ann Vincent
(According to Disk Jokey: 27)
* You Can't Be True, Dear - Ken Griffin
(According to Disk Jokey: 34, Retail Sales: 19)
* You Can't Be True, Dear - Ken Griffin, Jerry Wayne
(According to Disk Jokey: 16, Retail Sales: 6)
* You Can't Be True, Dear - The Sportsmen
(According to Disk Jokey: 28)
Top Folk Records Sellers of 1948
1. Bouquet of Roses - Eddy Arnold2. Anytime - Eddy Arnold
3. Just a Little Lovin' - Eddy Arnold
4. Texarkana Baby - Eddy Arnold
5. One Has My Heart - Jimmy Wakely
6. Humpty Dumpty Heart - Hank Thompson
7. Life Gets Tee-Jus Don't It - Carson Robinson
8. Sweeter Than the Flowers - Moon Mullican
9. Deck of Cards - T. Texas Tyler
10. My Daddy Is Only a Picture - Eddy Arnold
11. Tennessee Waltz - Pee Wee King
12. Suspicion - Tex Williams
13. Tennessee Saturday Night - Red Foley
14. Tennessee Waltz - Cowboy Copas
15. I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely
16. Seaman Blues - Ernest Tubb
17. I'll Hold You in My Heart - Eddy Arnold
18. Rock and Rye - Tex Ritter
19. Forever Is Ending Today - Ernest Tubb
20. Blue Shadows on the Trail - Roy Rogers, Sons of the Pioneers
20. Cool Water - Sons of the Pioneers
21. I Love You So Much It Hurts - Floyd Tillman
22. Then I Turned and Walked Slowly Away - Eddy Arnold
23. Who? Me? - Tex Williams
24. What a Fool I Was - Eddy Arnold
24. Tennessee Moon - Cowboy Copas
25. Buttons and Bows - Gene Autry
Top Race Record Sellers of 1948
1. Long Gone - Sonny Thompson2. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
3. Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson
4. Pretty Mama Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter
5. I Can't Go on Without You - Bull Moose Jackson
6. Messin' Around - Memphis Slim
7. My Heart Belongs to You - Arbee Stidham
8. Corn Bread - Hal Singer Sextette
9. Run, Joe - Louis Jordan
10. Blues After Hours -Pee Wee Crayton
11. Nature Boy - King Cole
12. All My Love Belongs to You - Bull Moose Jackson
13. Late Freight - Sonny Thompson
14. Send for Me If You Need Me - The Ravens
14. Am I Asking Too Much? - Dinah Washington
15. Hop, Dkip and Jump - Roy Milton
16. King Size Papa - Julia Lee
17. Long Aout Midnight - Roy Brown
18. It's Too Soon to Know - The Orioles
19. It's Too Soon to Know - Dinah Washington
20. Fine Brown Frame - Nellie Lutcher
21. Don't Burn the Candle at Both Ends - Louis Jordan
22. Everything I Do Is Wrong - Roy Milton
23. Bewildered - Red Miller Trio
24. Pleasing You - Lonnie Johnson
25. Blues for the Red Boy - Todd Rhodes
Top Selling Folk Artists over Retail Counters of 1948
1. Eddy Arnold 2. Jimmy Walkely 3. Hank Thompson 4. Carson Robinson 5. Moon Mullican 6. "T." Texas Tyler 7. Tex Williams 8. Cowboy Copas 8. Ernest Tubb 9. Pee Wee King 10. Sons of the Pioneers 11. Red Foley 12. Tex Ritter 13. Roy Rogers 14. Floyd Tillman 15. Gene AutryTop Female Vocalists on Disk Jockey Shows of 1948
1. Margaret Whiting 2. Peggy Lee 3. Doris Day 4. Gracie Fields 5. Dinah Shore 6. Ann Vincent 7. Jo StaffordTop Female Selling Vocalists Over Retail Counter of 1948
1. Peggy Lee 2. Doris Day 3. Margaret Whiting 4. Gracie Fields 5. Dinah Shore 6. Ella Fitzgerald 7. Jo StaffordTop Selling Female Vocalists on Race Records Over Retail Counters of 1948
1. Dinah Washinton 2. Julia Lee 3. Nellie LutcherTop Male Vocalists on Disk Jockey Top Selling Male Vocalists Over Retail Counters of 1948
1. Bing Crosby 2. Buddy Clark 3. Jerry Wayne 4. Dick Haymes 5. King Cole 6. Arthur Godfrey 7. Perry ComoClick image to go:
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