NATION’S WEEKLY MUSIC POPULARITY CHART: THE TEN TOP TUNES INDEX
PATTI PAGE * No. 01 * 04/21/1951
PERRY COMO * No. 02 * 04/21/1951
DEBBIE REYNOLDS * No. 03 * 04/21/1951
MARIO LANZA * No. 04 * 04/21/1951
HARRY JAMES * No. 05 * 04/21/1951
BING COSBY w/THE ANDREW SISTERS * No. 06 * 04/21/1951
LES PAUL and MARY FORD * No. 07 * 04/21/1951
PERCY FAITH ORCHESTRA * No. 08 * 04/21/1951
JO STAFFORD * No. 09 * 04/21/1951
BILLY ECKSTEIN * No. 10 * 04/21/1951
NATION’S WEEKLY MUSIC POPULARITY CHART: THE TEN TOP TUNES INDEX
WAY-BACK RADIO – APRIL 21, 1951
(Week-Ending)
1951 IN THE NEWS
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NEWS THROUGH APRIL — First week (Jan. 1) as No. 1 single on Billboard and Cashbox charts in the United States of Patti Page hit song “Tennessee Waltz”. Nuclear testing (Jan. 27) at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas. The United Nations General Assembly (Feb. 1) declares China as an aggressor in the Korean War in UN General Assembly Resolution 498. The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified, February 22.
The first NBA All-Star Game (Mar. 22) of basketball is played in the Boston Gardens. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, Mar. 29. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty. U.S. President Harry S. Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands, April 11. The National Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed, April 21.
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DETROIT HEADLINES. APRIL 21, 1951
DETROIT RADIO. 1951
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In April 1951 these same Top 10 hits had their spins on Detroit radio music shows, such as WJR (760) “Music Hall,” “Modern Music,” and “Broadway My Beat”. On WWJ (950) “Musicana” and “Your Hit Parade”. On WXYZ (1270) “Pan American Music” and “Dancin’ Party”. On CKLW (800) “Beat Lombardoland” and “Barn Dance.” On WJBK (1490) “Jack The Bellboy” and “Music All Night”. And on WKMH (1310) “Musical Clock” and “Bobbin’ With Robbin'”.
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These records were America’s most popular TEN TOP RECORDS for the week ending April 21, 1951 on the Billboard Honor Roll of Hits.
67 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 ’50s Hit Parade era.
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