NATION’S WEEKLY MUSIC POPULARITY CHART: THE TEN TOP TUNES INDEX
EDDY HOWARD * NO. 01
TONY BENNETT * NO. 02
DINAH WASHINGTON * NO. 03
CHAMP BUTLER * NO. 04
ARTHUR GODFREY * NO. 05
AMES BROTHERS * NO. 06
TONY MARTIN * NO. 07
FRANKIE LAINE * NO. 8
HARMONICATS * NO. 09
JO STAFFORD * NO. 10
WAY-BACK RADIO – DECEMBER 15, 1951
(Week-Ending)
1951 IN THE NEWS
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NEWS THROUGH DECEMBER — U. S. Nuclear testing begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas. The U. N. Assembly declares that China is an aggressor in the Korean War in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands. A formal peace agreement between Canada and Germany is signed. NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members. Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion US in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
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(Source: Wikipedia)
DETROIT RADIO. 1951
In December 1951 these same Top 10 hits had their spins on Detroit radio music shows, such as WJR (760) “Music Hall,” “Melody Time,” and “Melody Roundup.” On WWJ (950) “Your Hit Parade” and “Band of Week.” On WXYZ (1270) “Roseland Ballroom” and “Dancing Party.” On CKLW (800) “Dance Orchestra” and “Lombardoland USA.” On WJBK (1490) “It’s The Tops” and “Melody Time.” And on WKMH (1310) “Musical Clock.”
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These records were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending December 15, 1951, on the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits.
66 YEARS AGO. ABOUT THIS FEATURE
Certainly this was not the music of our generation nor that of the present as well. But from time to time this website will bring light to a certain time in decades’ past. These were the bands and artists Americans found themselves enamored with. The early ’50s. Big Bands. Crooners. Starlets. The Ballads.
This was the (post-war) Hit Parader era.
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