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" Twelfth Street Rag" by Pee Wee Hunt was the number one song of 1948.

This is a list of Billboard magazine's top popular songs of 1948 according to retail sales. [1]

No. (Rank) Title Artist(s)
1 (1) " Twelfth Street Rag" Pee Wee Hunt
2 (2) " Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me)" Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour
3 (3) " Now Is the Hour" Bing Crosby with Ken Darby
4 (4) " A Tree in the Meadow" Margaret Whiting
5 (5) " My Happiness" Jon and Sondra Steele
6 (6) " You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin and Jerry Wayne
7 (7) " Little White Lies" Dick Haymes and Gordon Jenkins
8 (8) " You Call Everybody Darlin'" Al Trace with Bob Vincent
9 (9) " My Happiness" The Pied Pipers
10 (10) " I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Art Mooney
11 (11) " It's Magic" Doris Day
12 (12) " Maybe You'll Be There" Gordon Jenkins
13 (13) " Ballerina" Vaughn Monroe
14 (14) " Nature Boy" King Cole with Frank De Vol
15 (15) " Woody Woodpecker" Kay Kyser with Gloria Wood
16 (16) " Love Somebody" Doris Day and Buddy Clark with George Siravo
17 (17) " Now Is the Hour" Gracie Fields with Phil Green
18 (18) " Beg Your Pardon" Francis Craig
19 (19) " You Can't Be True, Dear" Ken Griffin
20 (20) "Toolie Oolie Doolie" The Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen
21 (21) " Buttons and Bows" Dinah Shore
22 (22) "Golden Earrings" Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour
23 (23) " Baby Face" Art Mooney
23 (23) "Too Fat Polka" Arthur Godfrey with Archie Bleyer
24 (25) " Because" Perry Como with Russ Case
24 (25) " My Happiness" Ella Fitzgerald with the Song Spinners
25 (27) " Serenade of the Bells" Sammy Kaye
26 (28) "Until" Tommy Dorsey
27 (29) " William Tell Overture" Spike Jones
28 (30) " Beg Your Pardon" Frankie Carle
29 (31) " St. Louis Blues March" Tex Beneke
29 (31) " Underneath the Arches" Primo Scala
30 (33) " (I'd Like to Get You on a) Slow Boat to China" Kay Kyser
30 (33) " Woody Woodpecker" The Sportsmen and Mel Blanc
31 (35) "I'll Dance at Your Wedding" Ray Noble and Buddy Clark
32 (36) "The Dicky-Bird Song" Freddy Martin
33 (37) " I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" Russ Morgan and Milt Herth
34 (38) "How Soon" Vaughn Monroe
35 (39) " Serenade of the Bells" Jo Stafford

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Year's Top Popular Retail Record Sellers" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 61, no. 1. January 1, 1949. p. 12-13.
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