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Billboard Top Folk Records Of 1949
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. In 1949, country music records were included on, and dominated, the ''Billboard'' folk records chart. Both charts were topped by Hank Williams' " Lovesick Blues"; the song posted 4,182 points on the retail sales chart and 1,716 points on the juke box chart -- nearly doubling the point total of any other song. Williams also posted the No. 5 hit on the year-end charts with " Wedding Bells". Eddy Arnold led all other artists with nine records on the year-end charts. Arnold's " Don't Rob Another Man's Castle" ranked No. 2 on both year-end charts with 2,270 retail points and 981 juke box points. Four versions of the song " Candy Kisses" made the year-end charts. George Morgan's version was a No. 1 hit while the song also led to hits for Red Foley (No. 4), Elton Britt (No. 4), and Cowboy Copas ( ...
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Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ...
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Slipping Around
"Slippin' Around" is a song written and recorded by Floyd Tillman in 1949. The most popular recording was a cover version by Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely which reached number one on the Retail Folk (Country) Best Sellers chart. It is a song about a person cheating on his/her spouse. Tillman wrote a follow-up song, the same year, with essentially the same melody, called "I'll Never Slip Around Again" in which the cheater has married the one that he/she cheated with, and is in turn worried that he/she is being cheated on. Tillman, as well as Whiting and Wakely, recorded this song as well, as did Doris Day. Recorded versions (Slippin' Around) *Dave Dudley * Jerry Lee Lewis *Benny Martin * Sammy Masters * George Morgan and Marion Worth (1964) * Ray Price * Floyd Tillman * Ernest Tubb * Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting (recorded July 20, 1949) *Kai Winding *Perry Como (as "Bumming Around") * Betty Johnson * Joe South *Mack Abernathy (1988) Recorded versions (I'll Never Slip Ar ...
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A Heart Full Of Love (For A Handful Of Kisses)
"A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)" is a 1948 single by Eddy Arnold. Written by Arnold, Steve Nelson and Ray Soehnel, the song was Arnold's eighth number one, where it spent one week at the top of the Best Seller lists. The b-side of "A Heart Full of Love (For a Handful of Kisses)", is a song titled, "Then I Turned and Slowly Walked Away" hit number four on the Folk Best Seller lists. References 1947 songs 1948 singles Eddy Arnold songs Songs written by Eddy Arnold Songs written by Steve Nelson (songwriter) {{1940s-country-song-stub ...
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Tennessee Border
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, Arkansas to the southwest, and Missouri to the northwest. Tennessee is geographically, culturally, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions of East, Middle, and West Tennessee. Nashville is the state's capital and largest city, and anchors its largest metropolitan area. Other major cities include Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Clarksville, Tennessee, Clarksville. Tennessee's population as of the 2020 United States census is approximately 6.9 million. Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachian Moun ...
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