Billboard Most-Played Race Records of 1946 is a year-end chart compiled by '' Billboard'' magazine ranking the year's top

race record Race records were 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s.Oliver, Paul. "Race record." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. 13 Feb. 2015. They primarily contained race music, comprising various Af ...

s based on the number of times the record was played on the nation's juke boxes.''Billboard'' assigned point totals to each record based on its juke box plays. "

Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" is a 1946 song by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra. The song's lead vocals were performed by Lionel Hampton himself and the recording featured Herbie Fields on alto sax. The song went to number one on the R&B Juke Box chart ...

" from Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra was the year's No. 1 record with 120 points, ranking more than 40 points higher than any other record. Louis Jordan and His

Tympany Five Tympany Five was a successful and influential American rhythm and blues and jazz dance band founded by Louis Jordan in 1938. The group was composed of a horn section of three to five different pieces and also drums, double bass, guitar and pi ...

led all other artists with 11 records on the year-end chart, including "

Choo Choo Ch'Boogie "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" is a popular song written by Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, and Milt Gabler. The song was recorded in January 1946 by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five and released by Decca Records. It topped the R&B charts for 18 weeks f ...

" (No. 2) and " Stone Cold Dead in the Market (He Had It Coming)" with

Ella Fitzgerald Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, in ...

(No. 3). ''Billboard'' ranked Jordan's band as the year's top race record band with 385 points, more than triple the total of the second place band (Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra with 128 points). Decca Records led all other labels with 17 records, including the top four, on the year-end chart. Capitol Records ranked second with five records followed by RCA Victor (four) and Exclusive (three).

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