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Indicates best-charting R&B single of 1960 [11] Bill Black's Combo (Black pictured) had two number ones in 1960. Jackie Wilson also took two singles to the top of the chart during the year. The Everly Brothers spent one week at number one with "Cathy's Clown". Jerry Butler (pictured in later life) ended the year at number one.
Harlem Hit Parade – 1942 to February 10, 1945. Juke Box Race Records – February 17, 1945 to June 17, 1957. Billboard's "Best Sellers" – May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958. Rhythm & Blues – June 25, 1949 to November 23, 1963. Billboard's "Jockeys" – January 22, 1955 to October 13, 1958. Hot R&B – October 20, 1958 to November 23, 1963.
Rhythm and blues. 1940s–1950s, United States, from the Deep South. Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a ...
Otis Redding had a posthumous number one with "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay".. In 1968, Billboard published a weekly chart ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in rhythm and blues (R&B) and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published ...
Harlem Hit Parade – 1942 to February 10, 1945. Juke Box Race Records – February 17, 1945 to June 17, 1957. Billboard's "Best Sellers" – May 22, 1948 to October 13, 1958. Rhythm & Blues – June 25, 1949 to November 23, 1963. Billboard's "Jockeys" – January 22, 1955 to October 13, 1958. Hot R&B – October 20, 1958 to November 23, 1963.
Chart history. Stevie Wonder was the only act to achieve more than one number one in 1977. "Tryin' to Love Two" was a chart-topper for William Bell. Thelma Houston reached number one with her version of "Don't Leave Me This Way". Earth, Wind & Fire spent the last seven weeks of 1977 atop the chart with "Serpentine Fire".