1948 HITS ARCHIVE: Twelfth Street Rag - Pee Wee Hunt (a #1 record)

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Twelfth Street Rag (Bowman) by Pee Wee Hunt & his Orchestra

By some calculations, this catchy Dixieland-flavored jazz standard was the most popular record of 1948 (8 weeks at #1, 23 weeks in the top-10, and 32 weeks on Billboard’s singles charts). Between 1929 and 1943, Walter ‘Pee Wee’ Hunt had been a valued member of Glen Gray’s Casa Loma Orchestra as trombonist and vocalist. Four of his Casa Loma vocals are posted to this channel: “When I Take My Sugar To Tea” “Fare Thee Well Annabelle” “I May Be Wrong (But I Think You’re Wonderful)” and “(Gotta Get Some) Shut Eye.”

THE 1948 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1948 (some were recorded in 1947). .
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