R&B number-one hits of 1948 (USA) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This list of R&B #1 hits of 1948 in the United States is part of the List of #1 R&B hits (USA).
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Issue Date	Song Title	Artist	Weeks at #1
21 January	I Love You Yes I Do	Bull Moose Jackson Bull Moose Jackson Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s.-Career:... and His Buffalo Bearcats	3 weeks*
20 March	King Size Papa	Julia Lee Julia Lee (musician) Julia Lee was an American blues and dirty blues musician.-Biography:Born in Boonville, Missouri, United States, Lee was raised in Kansas City, and began her musical career around 1920, singing and playing piano in her brother George Lee's band, which for a time also included Charlie Parker... and Her Boy Friends	9 weeks
22 May	Tomorrow Night	Lonnie Johnson Lonnie Johnson Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...	7 weeks*
19 June	Good Rockin' Tonight	Wynonie Harris Wynonie Harris Wynonie Harris , born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952, Harris is generally considered one of rock and roll's forerunners, influencing Elvis Presley...	1 week
10 July	Long Gone (Parts I & II)	Sonny Thompson Sonny Thompson Sonny Thompson was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.Born Alfonso Thompson in Centreville, Mississippi, he began recording in 1946, and in 1948 achieved two #1 R&B chart hits on the Miracle label – "Long Gone " and "Late Freight", both featuring saxophonist...	3 weeks*
10 July	Run Joe	Louis Jordan Louis Jordan Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the... and His Tympany Five Tympany Five Tympany Five was a successful 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 piano. After playing in Chicago at the Capitol Lounge in 1941, Jordan and his band...	2 weeks*
24 July	I Can't Go on Without You	Bull Moose Jackson Bull Moose Jackson Benjamin Clarence "Bull Moose" Jackson was an American blues and rhythm and blues singer and saxophonist, who was most successful in the late 1940s.-Career:... and His Buffalo Bearcats	8 weeks
4 September	Messin' Around	Memphis Slim Memphis Slim Memphis Slim was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other... and His House Rockers	2 weeks*
11 September	My Heart Belongs to You	Arbee Stidham Arbee Stidham Arbee Stidham was an American blues singer and multi-instrumentalist, most successful in the late 1940s and 1950s....	1 week
18 September	Pretty Mama Blues	Ivory Joe Hunter Ivory Joe Hunter Ivory Joe Hunter was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, and pianist. After a series of hits on the US R&B chart starting in the mid 1940s, he became more widely known for his hit recording, "Since I Met You Baby" . He was billed as The Baron of the Boogie, and also known as The...	3 weeks
2 October	Corn Bread	Hal Singer Hal Singer Harold Joseph "Hal" Singer is an American R&B and jazz bandleader and saxophonist.-Biography:Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Singer studied violin as a child but, as a teenager, switched to clarinet and then tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice... Sextette	4 weeks*
2 October	Late Freight	Sonny Thompson Sonny Thompson Sonny Thompson was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.Born Alfonso Thompson in Centreville, Mississippi, he began recording in 1946, and in 1948 achieved two #1 R&B chart hits on the Miracle label – "Long Gone " and "Late Freight", both featuring saxophonist... Quintet	1 week
9 October	Am I Asking Too Much	Dinah Washington Dinah Washington Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...	1 week
6 November	Blues After Hours	Pee Wee Crayton Pee Wee Crayton Connie Curtis Crayton , known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.-Career:...	3 weeks*
27 November	It's Too Soon to Know It's Too Soon To Know "It’s Too Soon To Know" is an American doo-wop ballad by Deborah Chessler, performed first by The Orioles. It was number one on the American Rhythm and blues charts in November of 1948...	The Orioles The Orioles The Orioles were a successful and influential American R&B group of the late 1940s and early 1950s, one of the earliest such vocal bands who established the basic pattern for the doo-wop sound....	1 week
4 December	Chicken-Shack Boogie	Amos Milburn Amos Milburn Amos Milburn was an African American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, popular during the 1940s and 1950s...	5 weeks*
4 December	Bewildered	Red Miller Red Miller Robert "Red" Miller is a former professional football coach with the Denver Broncos.- Early life and career :Miller was born and raised in Macomb, Illinois and attended Macomb Public Schools and Western Illinois University, where he was later a star player and coach for the Leathernecks football... Trio	5 weeks*
18 December	'Long About Midnight	Roy Brown Roy Brown Roy Brown may refer to:Roy Brown , English professional footballer who was the first black player to play for Stoke City.Roy Brown , English footballer...	1 week
25 December	Bewildered	Amos Milburn Amos Milburn Amos Milburn was an African American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, popular during the 1940s and 1950s...	3 weeks*

An asterisk (*) after a song title means that the song lost and then regained the number-one spot.

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