1944

1/1 Ration Blues - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1 Week)

1/15 Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me - Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra (8 Weeks)*

1/22 G.I. Jive - Johnny Mercer With Paul Weston And His Orchestra (1 Week)

3/11 Solo Flight - Benny Goodman And His Orchestra (1 Week)

3/25 Cow-Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay) - The Ink Spots And Ella Fitzgerald (1 Week)

4/1 Main Stem - Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra (4 Weeks)*

4/15 When My Man Comes Home - Buddy Johnson And His Band (1 Week)

4/29 Straighten Up And Fly Right - The Nat King Cole Trio (10 Weeks)*

7/15 G.I Jive - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (6 Weeks)*

8/19 Till Then - The Mills Brothers (1 Week)

9/2 Hamp’s Boogie Woogie - Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra (6 Weeks)*

9/30 I’m Lost - Benny Carter And His Orchestra (2 Weeks)*

10/21 Gee-Baby- Ain’t I Good To You - The Nat King Cole Trio (4 Weeks)

11/18 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - The Ink Spots And Ella Fitzgerald (11 Weeks)*
 

1945

2/10 Somebody’s Gotta Go - Cootie Williams And His Orchestra (1 Week)

2/17 I Wonder - Pvt. Cecil Gant (2 Weeks)

2/24 I Wonder - Roosevelt Sykes (7 Weeks)

4/14 Tippin’ In - Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra (6 Weeks)*

4/21 Mop! Mop! - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1 Week)

6/2 Caldonia - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (7 Weeks)

7/14 Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well - Lucky Millander And His Orchestra (8 Weeks)

9/8 The Honeydripper (Parts 1 & 2) - Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers (18 Weeks)
 

1946

1/12 Buzz Me - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (9 Weeks)

3/16 Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra (16 Weeks)*

3/23 Don’t Worry ‘Bout That Mule - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1 Week)

6/29 The Gypsy - The Ink Spots (3 Weeks)*

7/20 Stone Cold Dead In The Market (He Had It Coming) - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (5 Weeks)

8/24 Choo Choo Ch’Boogie - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (18 Weeks)*

11/23 Ain’t That Just Like A Woman (They’ll Do It Every Time) - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (2 Weeks)*
 

1947

1/17 Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (17 Weeks)*

4/26 Texas And Pacific - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (2 Weeks)*

5/17 I Want To Be Loved (But Only Buy You) - Savannah Churchill And The Sentimentalists (8 Weeks)*

5/24 Old Maid Boogie - Eddie Vinson And His Orchestra (2 Weeks)*

6/28 Jack You’re Dead - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (7 Weeks)*

8/30 Boogie Woogie Blue Plate - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (14 Weeks)*

11/22 (Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch And Grab It - Julia Lee And Her Boy Friends (12 Weeks)*
 

1948

2/21 I Love You Yes I Do - Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats (3 Weeks)*

3/20 King Size Papa - Julia Lee And Her Boy Friends (9 Weeks)

5/22 Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson (7 Weeks)*

6/19 Good Rockin’ Tonight - Wynonie Harris (1 Week)

7/10 Long Gone (Parts I & II) - Sonny Thompson (3 Weeks)*

7/10 Run Joe - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (2 Weeks)*

7/24- I Can’t Go On Without You - Bull Moose Jackson And His Buffalo Bearcats (8 Weeks)

9/4 Messin’ Around - Memphis Slim And His House Rockers (2 Weeks)*

9/11 My Heart Belongs To You - Arbee Stidham (1 Week)

9/18 Pretty Mama Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter (3 Weeks)

10/2 Corn Bread - Hal Singer Sextette (4 Weeks)*

10/2 Late Freight - Sonny Thompson Quintet (1 Week)

10/9 Am I Asking Too Much - Dinah Washington (1 Week)

11/6 Blues After Hours - Pee Wee Crayton (3 Weeks)*

11/27 It’s Too Soon To Know - The Orioles (1 Week)

12/4 Chicken-Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn (5 Weeks)*

12/4 Bewildered - Red Miller Trio (5 Weeks)*

12/18 ‘Long About Midnight - Roy Brown (1 Week)

12/25 Bewildered - Amos Milburn (3 Weeks)*
 

1949

2/19 Boogie Chillen - John Lee Hooker (1 Week)

2/19 The Deacon’s Hop - Big Jay McNeeley’s Blue Jays (1 Week)

3/5 The Huckle-Buck - Paul Williams And His Hucklebuckers (14 Weeks)*

6/4 Trouble Blues - The Charles Brown Trio (15 Weeks)

8/20 Ain’t Nobody’s Business (Parts 1 & 2) - Jimmy Witherspoon (1 Week)

9/10 Roomin’ House Boogie - Amos Milburn (2 Weeks)

9/17 All She Wants To Do Is Rock - Wynonie Harris (2 Weeks)*

9/17 Tell Me So - The Orioles (1 Week)

9/24 Baby Get Lost - Dinah Washington (2 Weeks)

10/8 Beans And Corn Bread - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1 Week)

10/15 Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (12 Weeks)*

12/24 For You My Love - Larry Darnell (8 Weeks)*
 

1950

2/18 I Almost Lost My Mind - Ivory Joe Hunter (5 Weeks)*

3/4 Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis Quintette- The Robins and Little Esther (9 Weeks)

4/15 Mistrustin’ Blues - Little Esther With Mel Walker and The Johnny Otis Orchestra (4 Weeks)

5/13 I Need You So - Ivory Joe Hunter (2 Weeks)

5/27 Pink Champagne - Joe Liggins And His Honeydrippers (13 Weeks)*

7/8 Cupid Boogie -  Johnny Otis Orchestra- Little Esther and Mel Walker (1 Week)

8/19 Hard Luck Blues - Roy Brown (3 Weeks)

9/2 Mona Lisa - Nat "King" Cole (4 Weeks)

9/9 Blue Light Boogie (Parts 1 & 2) - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (7 Weeks)

10/28 Blue Shadows - Lowell Fulson (4 Weeks)

11/4 Anytime- Any Place- Anywhere - Joe Morris And His Orchestra (4 Weeks)*

11/25 Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield (2 Weeks)*

12/9 Teardrops From My Eyes - Ruth Brown (11 Weeks)*
 

1951

1/6 Bad, Bad Whiskey - Amos Milburn (3 Weeks)*

3/3 Black Night - Charles Brown (14 Weeks)

6/9 Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (5 Weeks)

6/9 Chica Boo - Lloyd Glenn (2 Weeks)

6/30 Sixty-Minute Man - The Dominoes (14 Weeks)*

9/1 Don’t You Know I Love You - The Clovers (2 Weeks)

9/22 The Glory Of Love - The Five Keys (4 Weeks)*

11/3 "T" 99 Blues - Jimmie Nelson And The Peter Rabbit Trio (1 Week)

11/10 Fool, Fool, Fool - The Clovers (6 Weeks)*

11/10 I Got Loaded - "Peppermint" Harris (2 Weeks)*

11/17 I’m In The Mood - John Lee Hooker (4 Weeks)*

12/8 Because Of You - Tab Smith And His Orchestra (2 Weeks)

12/29 Flamingo - Earl Bostic And His Orchestra (4 Weeks)*

 
1952

1/12 Weepin’ & Cryin’ - Griffin Brothers Orchestra (3 Weeks)

1/12 Cry - Johnnie Ray And The Four Lads (1 Week)

2/2 3 O’Clock Blues - B.B. King (5 Weeks)

3/15 Night Train - Jimmy Forest (7 Weeks)

3/15 Booted - Roscoe Gordon (1 Week)

5/3 5-10-15 Hours - Ruth Brown (7 Weeks)

6/14 Have Mercy Baby - The Dominoes (10 Weeks)*

6/21 Goin’ Home - Fats Domino (1 Week)

7/12 Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price (7 Weeks)*

8/23 Mary Jo - Four Blazes (3 Weeks)

9/6 Ting-A-Ling - The Clovers (1 Week)

9/27 My Song - Johnny Ace (9 Weeks)

9/27 Juke - Little Walter (8 Weeks)*

11/8 Five Long Years - Eddie Boyd (7 Weeks)*

11/8 You Know I Love You - B.B. King (2 Weeks)*

12/27 I Don’t Know - Willie Mabon and his Combo (8 Weeks)
 

1953

2/21 Baby Don’t Do It - The "5" Royales (3 Weeks)

3/7 (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean - Ruth Brown (5 Weeks)

4/18 Hound Dog - Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (7 Weeks)

5/30 I’m Mad - Willie Mabon and his Combo (2 Weeks)

6/13 Help Me Somebody - The "5" Royales (5 Weeks)*

7/4 Please Love Me - B.B. King (3 Weeks)*

7/18 The Clock - Johnny Ace (5 Weeks)*

8/22 Crying In The Chapel - The Orioles (5 Weeks)*

9/19 Shake A Hand - Faye Adams (10 Weeks)*

11/21 Money Honey - The Drifters (11 Weeks)

12/5 Honey Hush - Big Joe Turner (8 Weeks)
 

1954

1/30 The Things That I Used To Do - Guitar Slim (14 Weeks)

2/6 I’ll Be True - Faye Adams (1 Week)

3/27 You’ll Never Walk Alone - Roy Hamilton (8 Weeks)

5/22 Work With Me Annie - The Midnighters (7 Weeks)

6/12 Shake, Rattle And Roll - Big Joe Turner (3 Weeks)

7/10 Honey Love - The Drifters (8 Weeks)

9/4 Oh What A Dream - Ruth Brown (8 Weeks)

9/25 Annie Had A Baby - The Midnighters (2 Weeks)

10/16 Hurts Me To My Heart - Faye Adams (5 Weeks)

11/20 Mambo Baby - Ruth Brown (1 Week)

11/27 Hearts Of Stone - The Charms (9 Weeks)

12/25 You Upset Me Baby - B.B. King (2 Weeks)
 

1955

1/15 Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine) - The Penguins (3 Weeks)

1/22 Sincerely - The Moonglows (2 Weeks)*

2/12 Pledging My Love - Johnny Ace (10 Weeks)*

4/9 The Wallflower - Etta James (4 Weeks)*

4/23 My Babe - Little Walter (5 Weeks)*

5/7 I’ve Got A Woman - Ray Charles (1 Week)

5/21 Unchained Melody - Roy Hamilton (3 Weeks)

6/11 Ain’t That A Shame - Fats Domino (11 Weeks)

6/18 Unchained Melody - Al Hibbler (1 Week)

6/25 Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley (2 Weeks)*

8/6 A Fool For You - Ray Charles (1 Week)

8/20 Maybellene - Chuck Berry (11 Weeks)

10/22 Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters (7 Weeks)

10/29 All By Myself - Fats Domino (3 Weeks)

12/17 Hands Off - Jay McShann And His Orchestra (3 Weeks)

12/31 Poor Me - Fats Domino (1 Week)

12/31 Adorable - The Drifters (1 Week)
 

1956

1/7 The Great Pretender - The Platters (11 Weeks)

1/7 At My Front Door - The El Dorados (1 Week)

3/17 Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers (5 Weeks)

3/24 Drown In My Own Tears - Ray Charles (2 Weeks)

4/14 Long Tall Sally - Little Richard (8 Weeks)

5/19 I’m In Love Again - Fats Domino (9 Weeks)*

7/21 Fever - Little Willie John (5 Weeks)

7/28 Treasure Of Love - Clyde McPhatter (1 Week)

8/4 Rip It Up - Little Richard (2 Weeks)

8/18 My Prayer - The Platters (2 Weeks)

8/25 Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2) - Bill Doggett (13 Weeks)*

9/1 Let The Good Times Roll - Shirley & Lee (3 Weeks)*

9/15 Hound Dog/Don’t Be Cruel - Elvis Presley (6 Weeks)*

11/13 Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino (11 Weeks)*
 
1957

1/5 Since I Met You Baby - Ivory Joe Hunter (3 Weeks)

1/26 Blue Monday - Fats Domino (8 Weeks)*

3/9 Jim Dandy - LaVern Baker (1 Week)

3/16 Love Is Strange - Mickey And Sylvia (2 Weeks)

3/23 I’m Walkin’ - Fats Domino (6 Weeks)

4/27 Lucille - Little Richard (2 Weeks)

4/29 School Day - Chuck Berry (5 Weeks)*

4/29 All Shook Up - Elvis Presley (4 Weeks)

6/3 Youngblood - The Coasters (1 Week)

6/10 Searchin’ - The Coasters (12 Weeks)

6/17 C.C. Rider - Chuck Willis (2 Weeks)*

7/29 Short Fat Fannie - Larry Williams (1 Week)

8/19 Send For Me - Nat "King" Cole (2 Weeks)

9/2 Further Up The Road - Bobby "Blue" Bland (2 Weeks)*

9/2 (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley (1 Week)

9/9 Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis (2 Weeks)

9/16 Long Lonely Nights - Clyde McPhatter (1 Week)

9/23 Diana - Paul Anka (2 Weeks)

9/30 Mr. Lee - The Bobbettes (4 Weeks)*

10/7 Honeycomb - Jimmie Rodgers (2 Weeks)

10/21 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley (5 Weeks)

10/28 Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers (1 Week)

11/25 You Send Me - Sam Cooke (6 Weeks)
 
1958

1/6 At The Hop - Danny & The Juniors (5 Weeks)

1/6 Raunchy - Ernie Freeman (2 Weeks)

1/20 Raunchy - Bill Justis And His Orchestra (1 Week)

1/27 I’ll Come Running Back To You - Sam Cooke (1 Week)

2/3 Get A Job - The Silhouettes (6 Weeks)

3/10 Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry (3 Weeks)

3/31 Tequila - The Champs (4 Weeks)

4/28 Twilight Time - The Platters (3 Weeks)

5/5 Wear My Ring Around Your Neck - Elvis Presley (3 Weeks)

5/19 All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers (5 Weeks)

5/26 Witch Doctor - David Seville (1 Week)

6/23 Yakety Yak - The Coasters (7 Weeks)

6/23 What Am I Living For - Chuck Willis (1 Week)

8/4 Splish Splash - Bobby Darin (2 Weeks)

8/11 Patricia - Perez Prado And His Orchestra (2 Weeks)

8/25 Just A Dream - Jimmy Clanton (1 Week)

9/1 Little Star - The Elegants (4 Weeks)

9/1 When - Kalin Twins (1 Week)

9/29 It’s All In The Game - Tommy Edwards (3 Weeks)

10/6 Rockin Robin - Bobby Day (3 Weeks)

10/27 Topsy II - Cozy Cole (6 Weeks)

12/8 A Lover’s Question - Clyde McPhatter (1 Week)

12/15 Lonely Teardrops - Jackie Wilson (7 Weeks)
 

1959

2/2 Try Me - James Brown (1 Week)

2/9 Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price (4 Weeks)

3/9 It’s Just A Matter Of Time - Brook Benton (9 Weeks)

5/11 Kansas City - Wilbert Harrison (7 Weeks)

6/29 Personality - Lloyd Price (4 Weeks)

7/27 There Goes My Baby - The Drifters (1 Week)

8/3 What’d I Say (Part 1) - Ray Charles (1 Week)

8/10 Thank You Pretty Baby - Brook Benton (4 Weeks)

9/7 I’m Gonna Get Married - Lloyd Price (3 Weeks)*

9/21 I Want To Walk You Home - Fats Domino (1 Week)

10/5 Poision Ivy - The Coasters (4 Weeks)*

10/12 Sea Of Love - Phil Phillips (1 Week)

10/19 You Better Know It - Jackie Wilson (1 Week)

11/16 So Many Ways - Brook Benton (3 Weeks)*

11/23 Don’t You Know - Della Reese (2 Weeks)

12/7 The Clouds - The Spacemen (3 Weeks)*
 
1960

1/11 Smokie (Part 2) - Bill Black's Combo (4 weeks)

2/08 Baby (You've Got What It Takes) - Brook Benton & Dinah Washington (10 weeks)

4/18 Fannie Mae - Buster Brown (1 week)

4/25 White Silver Hands - Bill Black's Combo (4 weeks)

5/23 Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson (3 weeks)

6/13 Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers (1 week)

6/20 A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love) - Brook Benton & Dinah Washington (4 weeks)*

7/11 There's Something On Your Mind (Part 2) - Bobby Marchan (1 week)

7/25 This Bitter Earth - Dinah Washington (1 week)

8/01 A Woman, A Lover A Friend - Jackie Wilson (4 weeks)

8/29 Kiddio - Brook Benton (9 weeks)

10/31 Save The Last Dance For Me - The Drifters (1 week)

11/07 Let's Go- Let's Go- Let's Go - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (3 weeks)*  

11/14 He Will Break Your Heart (He Don't Love You, Like I Love You) - Jerry Butler (7 weeks)*
 

1961

1/16 Shop Around - The Miracles (8 weeks)

3/13 Pony Time - Chubby Checker (2 weeks)

3/27 I Pity The Fool - Bobby "Blue" Bland (1 week)

4/03 Blue Moon - The Marcels (2 weeks)

4/17 One Mint Julep - Ray Charles (1 week)

4/24 Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe (5 weeks)

5/29 Stand By Me - Ben E. King (4 weeks)

6/26 Every Beat Of My Heart - The Pips (1 week)

7/03 Tossin' And Turnin' - Bobby Lewis (10 weeks)

9/11 My True Story - The Jive Five (3 weeks)

10/02 Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles (5 weeks)

11/06 Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey (1 week)

11/13 Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes (7 weeks)
 

1962

1/06 Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles (2 weeks)

1/20 I Know (You Don't Love Me No More) - Barbara George (4 weeks)

2/17 Duke Of Earl - Gene Chandler (5 weeks)

3/24 Twistin' The Night Away - Sam Cooke (3 weeks)

4/14 Soul Twist - King Curtis (2 weeks)

4/28 Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp (4 weeks)

5/26 I Can't Stop Loving You - Ray Charles (10 weeks)

8/04 You'll Lose A Good Thing - Barbara Lynn (3 weeks)

8/25 The Loco-Motion - Little Eva (3 weeks)

9/15 Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's (4 weeks)*

9/22 You Beat Me To The Punch - Mary Wells (1 week)

10/06 Sherry - The Four Seasons (1 week)

10/20 Do You Love Me - The Contours (3 weeks)*

11/17 Big Girls Don't Cry - The Four Seasons (3 weeks)

12/08 Release Me - Esther Phillips (3 weeks)*

12/15 You Are My Sunshine - Ray Charles (3 weeks)*
 

1963

1/19 Two Lovers - Mary Wells (4 weeks)

2/16 You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles (1 week)

2/23 Hey Paula - Paul & Paula (2 weeks)

3/09 That's The Way Love Is - Bobby "Blue" Bland (2 weeks)

3/23 Our Day Will Come - Ruby & The Romantics (2 weeks)

4/06 He's So Fine - The Chiffons (4 weeks)

5/04 Baby Workout - Jackie Wilson (3 weeks)

5/25 I Will Follow Him - Little Peggy March (1 week)

6/01 If You Wanna Be Happy - Jimmy Soul (1 week)

6/08 Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke (1 week)

6/15 It's My Party - Lesley Gore (3 weeks)

7/06 Hello Stranger - Barbara Lewis (2 weeks)

7/20 Easier Said Than Done - The Essex (2 weeks)

8/03 Fingertips (Part 2) - Little Stevie Wonder (6 weeks)

9/14 Heat Wave - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (4 weeks)

10/12 Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters (3 weeks)*

10/19 Part Time Love - Little Johnny Taylor (1 week)

11/09 It's All Right - The Impressions (2 weeks)

11/23 Sugar Shack - Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs (1 week)
 
1965

1/30 My Girl - The Temptations (6 weeks)

3/13 Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars (4 weeks)*

4/03 Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke (3 weeks)

5/01 We're Gonna Make It - Little Milton (3 weeks)

5/22 I'll Be Doggone - Marvin Gaye (1 week)

5/29 Back In My Arms Again - The Supremes (1 week)

6/05 I Can't Help Myself - The Four Tops (9 weeks)

8/07 In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett (1 week)

8/14 Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown (8 weeks)

10/09 I Want To (Do Everything For You) - Joe Tex (3 weeks)

10/30 Rescue Me - Fontella Bass (4 weeks)

11/27 Ain't That Peculiar - Marvin Gaye (1 week)

12/04 I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown (6 weeks)*
 
1966

1/08 A Sweet Woman Like You - Joe Tex (1 week)

1/22 Uptight (Everything's Alright) - Stevie Wonder (5 weeks)

2/26 Baby Scratch My Back - Slim Harpo (2 weeks)

3/12 634-5789 (Soulsville- U.S.A.) - Wilson Pickett (7 weeks)

4/30 Get Ready - The Temptations (1 week)

5/07 When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge (4 weeks)

6/04 It's A Man's Man's Man's World - James Brown (2 weeks)

6/18 Hold On! I'm A Comin' - Sam & Dave (1 week)

6/25 Ain't Too Proud To Beg - The Temptations (8 weeks)*

7/23 Let's Go Get Stoned - Ray Charles (1 week)

8/27 Blowin' In The Wind - Stevie Wonder (1 week)

9/03 You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes (2 weeks)

9/17 Land Of A Thousand Dances - Wilson Pickett (1 week)

9/24 Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations (5 weeks)

10/29 Reach Out- I'll Be There - The Four Tops (2 weeks)

11/12 Love Is A Hurtin' Thing - Lou Rawls (1 week)

11/19 Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd (1 week)

11/26 You Keep Me Hangin' On - The Supremes (4 weeks)

12/24 (I Know) I'm Losing You - The Temptations (2 weeks)
  

1967

1/07 Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville (5 weeks)

2/11 Are You Lonely For Me - Freddie Scott (4 weeks)

3/11 Love Is Here And Now You're Gone - The Supremes (2 weeks)

3/25 I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You) - Aretha Franklin (7 weeks)

5/13 Jimmy Mack - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas (1 week)

5/20 Respect - Aretha Franklin (8 weeks)

7/15 I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder (4 weeks)*

7/22 Make Me Yours - Bettye Swann (2 weeks)

8/26 Baby I Love You - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)

9/09 Cold Sweat - James Brown (3 weeks)

9/30 Funky Broadway - Wilson Pickett (1 week)

10/07 (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher - Jackie Wilson (1 week)

10/14 Soul Man - Sam & Dave (7 weeks)

12/02 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips (6 weeks)
 

1968

1/13 I Second That Emotion - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1 week)

1/20 Chain Of Fools - Aretha Franklin (4 weeks)

2/17 I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations (3 weeks)

3/09 We're A Winner - The Impressions (1 week)

3/16 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding (3 weeks)

4/06 (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone - Aretha Franklin

(3 weeks)

4/27 I Got The Feelin' - James Brown (2 weeks)

5/11 Cowboys To Girls - The Intruders (1 week)

5/18 Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells (2 weeks)

6/01 Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day - Stevie Wonder (1 week)

6/08 Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (1 week)

6/15 Think - Aretha Franklin (3 weeks)

7/06 I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) - The Temptations (1 week)

7/13 Grazing In The Grass - Hugh Masekela (4 weeks)

8/10 Stay In My Corner - The Dells (3 weeks)

8/31 You're All I Need To Get By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (5 weeks)

10/05 Say It Loud -- I'm Black And I'm Proud - James Brown (6 weeks)

11/16 Hey, Western Union Man - Jerry Butler (1 week)

11/23 Who's Making Love - Johnnie Taylor (3 weeks)

12/14 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye (7 weeks)
 
1969

2/01 Can I Change My Mind - Tyrone Davis (3 weeks)

2/22 Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone (2 weeks)

3/08 Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose - James Brown (2 weeks)

3/22 Run Away Child Running Wild - The Temptations (2 weeks)

4/05 Only The Strong Survive - Jerry Butler (2 weeks)

4/19 It's Your Thing - The Isley Brothers (4 weeks)

5/17 The Chokin' Kind - Joe Simon (3 weeks)

6/07 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby - Marvin Gaye (6 weeks)

7/19 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) - Jr. Walker & The All-Stars (2 weeks)

8/02 Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) - James Brown (2 weeks)

8/16 Choice Of Colors - The Impressions (1 week)

8/23 Share Your Love With Me - Aretha Franklin (5 weeks)

9/27 Oh What A Night - The Dells (1 week)

10/04 I Can't Get Next To You - The Temptations (5 weeks)

11/08 Baby I'm For Real - The Originals (5 weeks)

12/13 Someday We'll Be Together - Diana Ross & The Supremes (4 weeks)
  

1970

1/10 I Want You Back - The Jackson 5 (4 weeks)

2/07 Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again) - Sly & The Family Stone (5 weeks)

3/14 Rainy Night In Georgia - Brook Benton (1 week)

3/21 Call Me - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)

4/04 ABC - The Jackson 5 (4 weeks)

5/02 Turn Back The Hands Of Time - Tyrone Davis (2 weeks)

5/16 Love On A Two-Way Street - The Moments (5 weeks)

6/20 The Love You Save - The Jackson 5 (6 weeks)

8/01 Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours - Stevie Wonder (6 weeks)

9/12 Don't Play That Song - Aretha Franklin (3 weeks)

10/03 Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross (1 week)

10/10 I'll Be There - The Jackson 5 (6 weeks)

11/21 Super Bad - James Brown (2 weeks)

12/05 The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (3 weeks)

12/26 Stoned Love - The Supremes (1 week)
 
1971  

1/04 Groove Me - King Floyd (4 weeks)*

1/23 If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight & The Pips (1 week)

2/06 (Do The) Push And Pull - Rufus Thomas (2 weeks)

2/20 Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone - Johnnie Taylor (2 weeks)

3/06 Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) - The Temptations

 (3 weeks)

3/27 What's Going On - Marvin Gaye (5 weeks)

5/01 Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5 (3 weeks)

5/22 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)*

5/29 Want Ads - The Honey Cone (3 weeks)

6/26 Don't Knock My Love - Wilson Pickett (1 week)

7/03 Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight (5 weeks)

8/07 Hot Pants - James Brown (1 week)

8/14 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye (2 weeks)

8/28 Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin (3 weeks)

9/18 Stick-Up - The Honey Cone (2 weeks)

10/02 Make It Funky - James Brown (2 weeks)

10/16 Thin Line Between Love & Hate - The Persuaders (2 weeks)

10/30 Trapped By A Thing Called Love - Denise LaSalle (1 week)

11/06 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Marvin Gaye (2 weeks)

11/20 Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites (2 weeks)

12/04 Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone (5 weeks)
 

1972

1/08 Let's Stay Together - Al Green (9 weeks)

3/11 Talking Loud And Saying Nothing - James Brown (1 week)

3/18 I Gotcha - Joe Tex (1 week)

3/25 In The Rain - The Dramatics (4 weeks)

4/22 Day Dreaming - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)

5/06 I'll Take You There - The Staple Singers (4 weeks)

6/03 Oh Girl - The Chi-Lites (2 weeks)

6/17 Woman's Gotta Have It - Bobby Womack (1 week)

6/24 Lean On Me - Bill Withers (1 week)

7/01 Outa-Space - Billy Preston (1 week)

7/08 (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right - Luther Ingram

(4  weeks)

8/05 Where Is The Love - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (1 week)

8/12 I'm Still In Love With You - Al Green (2 weeks)

8/26 Power Of Love - Joe Simon (2 weeks)

9/09 Back Stabbers - The O'Jays (1 week)

9/16 Get On The Good Foot - James Brown (4 weeks)

10/14 I'll Be Around - The Spinners (5 weeks)

11/18 If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

(2 weeks)

12/02 You Ought To Be With Me - Al Green (1 week)

12/09 Me And Mrs. Jones - Billy Paul (4 weeks)
 
1973

1/06 Superstition - Stevie Wonder (3 weeks)

1/27 Why Can't We Live Together - Timmy Thomas (2 weeks)

2/10 Could It Be I'm Falling In Love - The Spinners (1 week)

2/17 Love Train - The O'Jays (4 weeks)

3/17 Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye) - Gladys Knight & The Pips (4 weeks)

4/14 Masterpiece - The Temptations (2 weeks)

4/28 Pillow Talk - Sylvia (2 weeks)

5/12 Funky Worm - The Ohio Players (1 week)

5/19 Leaving Me - The Independents (1 week)

5/26 I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby - Barry White (2 weeks)

6/09 One Of A Kind (Love Affair) - The Spinners (4 weeks)

7/07 Doing It To Death - Fred Wesley & The JB's (2 weeks)

7/21 I Believe In You (You Believe In Me) - Johnnie Taylor (2 weeks)

8/04 Angel - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)

8/18 Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (6 weeks)

9/29 Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (1 week)

10/06 Keep On Truckin' - Eddie Kendricks (2 weeks)

10/20 Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips (4 weeks)

11/17 Space Race - Billy Preston (1 week)

11/24 The Love I Lost - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (2 weeks)

12/08 If You're Ready (Come Go With Me) - The Staple Singers (3 weeks)

12/29 Living For The City - Stevie Wonder (2 weeks)
 

1974

1/12 Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) - Aretha Franklin (1 week)

1/19 I've Got To Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & The Pips (1 week)

1/26 Livin' For You - Al Green (1 week)

2/02 Let Your Hair Down - The Temptations (1 week)

2/09 Boogie Down - Eddie Kendricks (3 weeks)

3/02 Mighty Love - The Spinners (2 weeks)

3/16 Lookin' For A Love - Bobby Womack (3 weeks)

4/06 Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips

(2 weeks)

4/20 TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB with The Three Degrees

(1 week)

4/27 The Payback - James Brown (2 weeks)

5/11 Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5 (1 week)

5/18 I'm In Love - Aretha Franklin (2 weeks)

6/01 Be Thankful For What You Got - William DeVaughn (1 week)

6/08 Hollywood Swinging - Kool & The Gang (1 week)

6/15 Sideshow - Blue Magic (1 week)

6/22 Finally Got Myself Together (I'm A Changed Man) - The Impressions

(2 weeks)

7/06 Rock Your Baby - George McCrae (2 weeks)

7/20 My Thang - James Brown (2 weeks)

8/03 Feel Like Makin' Love - Roberta Flack (5 weeks)

9/07 Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe - Barry White (3 weeks)

9/28 You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder (2 weeks)

10/12 Papa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown (1 week)

10/19 Do It ('Til You're Satisfied) - B.T. Express (1 week)

10/26 Higher Plane - Kool & The Gang (1 week)

11/02 Let's Straighten It Out - Latimore (2 weeks)

11/16 Woman To Woman - Shirley Brown (2 weeks)

11/30 I Feel A Song (In My Heart) - Gladys Knight & The Pips (2 weeks)

12/14 You Got The Love - Rufus & Chaka Khan (1 week)

12/21 She's Gone - Tavares (1 week)

12/28 Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder (2 weeks)

1975

1/11 Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas (1 Week)

1/18 You're The First, The Last, My Everything - Barry White (1 Week)

1/25 Fire - The Ohio Players (2 Weeks)

2/8 Happy People - The Temptations (1 Week)

2/15 I Belong To You - Love Unlimited (1 Week)

2/22 Lady Marmalade - LaBelle (1 Week)

3/1 Shame, Shame, Shame - Shirley (And Company) (1 Week)

3/8 Express - B.T. Express (1 Week)

3/15 Supernatual Thing (Part I) - Ben E. King (1 Week)

3/22 Shining Star - Earth, Wind & Fire (2 Weeks)

4/5 Shoeshine Boy - Eddie Kendricks (1 Week)

4/12 L-O-V-E (Love) - Al Green (2 Weeks)

4/26 Shakey Ground - The Temptations (1 Week)

5/3 What Am I Gonna Do Without You - Barry White (1 Week)

5/10 Get Down, Get Down (Get On The Floor) - Joe Simon (2 Week)

5/24 Baby That's Backatcha - Smokey Robinson (1 Week)

5/31 Spirit Of The Boogie - Kool & The Gang (1 Week)

6/7 Love Won't Let Me Wait - Major Harris (1 Week)

6/14 Rockin' Chair - Gwen McCrae (1 Week)

6/21 Give The People What They Want - The O'Jays (1 Week)

6/28 Look At Me (I'm In Love) - The Moments (1 Week)

7/5 Slippery When Wet - The Commodores (1 Week)

7/12 The Hustle - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony (1 Week)

7/19 Fight The Power (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers (3 Weeks)

8/9 Hope That We Can Be Together Soon - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes and Sharon Paige (1 Week)

8/16 Dream Merchant - The New Birth (1 Week)

8/23 Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band (1 Week)

8/30 Your Love - Graham Central Station (1 Week)

9/6 How Long (Betcha' Got A Chick On The Side) - The Pointer Sisters

(2 Weeks)

9/20 It Only Takes A Minute - Tavares (1 Week)

9/27 Do It Any Way You Wanna - People's Choice (1 Week)

10/4 This Will Be - Natalie Cole (2 Weeks)

10/18 They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play) - The Spinners (1 Week)

10/25 To Each His Own - Faith, Hope & Charity (1 Week)

11/1 Sweet Sticky Thing - The Ohio Players (1 Week)

11/8 Low Rider - War (1 Week)

11/15 Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention (1 Week)

11/22 Let's Do It Again - The Staple Singers (2 Weeks)*

11/29 That's The Way (I Like It) - K.C. & The Sunshine Band (1 Week)

12/6 I Love Music (Part 1) - The O'Jays (1 Week)

12/20 Full Of Fire - Al Green (1 Week)

12/27 Love Rollercoaster - The Ohio Players (1 Week)

1976

1/3 Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin (1 Week)

1/10 Sing A Song - Earth, Wind & Fire (2 Weeks)*

1/17 Wake Up Everybody (Part 1) - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (2 Weeks)

2/7 Turning Point - Tyrone Davis (1 Week)

2/14 Inseparable - Natalie Cole (1 Week)

2/21 Sweet Thing - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan (2 Weeks)

3/6 Boogie Fever - The Sylvers (1 Week)

3/13 Disco Lady - Johnnie Taylor (6 Weeks)

4/24 Living For The Weekend - The O'Jays (2 Weeks)

5/8 Movin' - Brass Construction (1 Week)

5/15 Love Hangover - Diana Ross (1 Week)

5/22 Kiss And Say Goodbye - The Manhattans (1 Week)

5/29 I Want You - Marvin Gaye (1 Week)

6/5 Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton (1 Week)

6/12 I'll Be Good To You - The Brothers Johnson (1 Week)

6/19 Sophisticated Lady (She's A Different Lady) - Natalie Cole (1 Week)

6/26 Something He Can Feel - Aretha Franklin (4 Weeks)

7/24 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls (2 Weeks)

8/7 Getaway - Earth, Wind & Fire (2 Weeks)

8/21 Who'd She Coo? - The Ohio Players (1 Week)

8/28 (Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty - KC & The Sunshine Band

(4 Weeks)*

9/4 Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry (2 Weeks)

10/9 Just To Be Close To You - The Commodores (2 Weeks)

10/23 The Rubberband Man - The Spinners (1 Week)

10/30 Message In Our Music - The O'Jays (1 Week)

11/6 Love Ballad - L.T.D. (2 Weeks)

11/20 You Don't Have To Be A Star (To Be In My Show) - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. (1 Week)

11/27 Dazz - Brick (4 Weeks)

12/25 Car Wash - Rose Royce (2 Weeks)

1977

1/8 Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender, Love) - The O'Jays (1 Week)

1/15 I Wish - Stevie Wonder (5 Weeks)

2/19 Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston (1 Week)

2/26 I've Got Love On My Mind - Natalie Cole (5 Weeks)

4/2 Tryin' To Love Two - William Bell (1 Week)

4/9 At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up) - Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan

(2 Weeks)

4/23 The Pride (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers (1 Week)

4/30 Got To Give It Up (Part 1) - Marvin Gaye (5 Weeks)*

5/21 Whodunit - Tavares (1 Week)

5/28 Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder (1 Week)

6/18 Break It To Me Gently - Aretha Franklin (1 Week)

6/25 Best Of My Love - The Emotions (4 Weeks)*

7/16 Easy - The Commodores (1 Week)

7/30 Slide - Slave (1 Week)

8/6 Strawberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson (1 Week)

8/13 Float On - The Floaters (6 Weeks)

9/24 Keep It Coming Love - KC & The Sunshine Band (1 Week)

10/1 It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me - Barry White (5 Weeks)

11/5 (Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again - L.T.D. (2 Weeks)

11/19 Serpentine Fire - Earth, Wind & Fire (7 Weeks)

1978

1/7 Ffun - Con Funk Shun (2 Weeks)

1/21 Our Love - Natalie Cole (2 Weeks)

2/4 Theme Song From "Which Way Is Up" - Stargard (2 Weeks)

2/18 Too Hot Ta Trot - The Commodores (1 Week)

2/25 It's You That I Need - Enchantment (1 Week)

3/4 Flashlight - Parliament (3 Weeks)

3/25 Bootzilla - Bootsy's Rubber Band (1 Week)

4/1 The Closer I Get To You - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (2 Weeks)

4/15 Too Much, Too Little, Too Late - Johnny Mathis & Denise Williams

(4 Weeks)

5/13 Take Me To The Next Phase (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers (2 Weeks)

5/27 Use Ta Be My Girl - The O'Jays (5 Weeks)

7/1 Stuff Like That - Quincy Jones (1 Week)

7/8 Close The Door - Teddy Pendergrass (2 Weeks)

7/22 You And I - Rick James (2 Weeks)

8/5 Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey (1 Week)

8/12 Three Times A Lady - The Commodores (2 Weeks)

8/26 Get Off - Foxy (2 Weeks)

9/9 Holding On (When Love Is Gone) - L.T.D. (2 Weeks)

9/23 Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth, Wind & Fire (1 Week)

9/30 One Nation Under A Groove (Part 1) - Funkadelic (6 Weeks)

11/11 I'm Every Woman - Chaka Khan (3 Weeks)

12/2 Le Freak - Chic (5 Weeks)

1979

1/6 Got To Be Real - Cheryl Lynn (1 Week)

1/13 September - Earth, Wind & Fire (1 Week)

1/20 Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) - Parliament

(4 Weeks)

2/17 Bustin' Loose (Part 1) - Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers (4 Weeks)

3/17 I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl) - Instant Funk (3 Weeks)*

3/31 He's The Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge (1 Week)

4/14 Disco Nights (Rock-Freak) - G.Q. (2 Weeks)

4/28 Reunited - Peaches & Herb (4 Weeks)

5/26 I Wanna Be With You (Part 1) - The Isley Brothers (1 Week)

6/2 Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead (1 Week)

6/9 We Are Family - Sister Sledge (1 Week)

6/16 Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (5 Weeks)

7/21 Bad Girls - Donna Summer (1 Week)

7/28 Good Times - Chic (6 Weeks)

9/8 Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (5 Weeks)

10/13 (Not Just) Knee Deep (Part 1) - Funkadelic (3 Weeks)

11/3 Ladies Night - Kool & The Gang (3 Weeks)

11/24 Still - The Commodores (1 Week)

12/1 I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince (2 Weeks)

12/15 Do You Love What You Feel - Rufus & Chaka (3 Weeks)

 

Source: Top R&B Singles 1942-1995 by Joel Whitburn