List of Most Played Juke Box Folk Records number ones of 1947

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Tex Williams (pictured in 1967) spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one with "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)".

Most Played Juke Box Folk Records was a chart that ranked the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine from 1944 to 1957. In 1947, 9 different songs topped the chart in 52 issues of the magazine, based on the number of times a song had been played in jukeboxes. In the issues of Billboard dated September 6 through November 1 the chart was titled Most Played Juke Box Hillbilly Records before reverting to its original name. The Juke Box Folk chart is considered part of the lineage of the current Hot Country Songs chart, which was first published in 1958.[1]

The number-one position was dominated in 1947 by three artists who between them spent 47 weeks in the top spot. At the start of the year, Merle Travis was at number one with "Divorce Me C.O.D." which had been in the top spot since the issue of Billboard dated October 26, 1946,[2] and spent three further non-consecutive weeks atop the chart in 1947. After just one week out of the top spot, Travis returned to number one with "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", which spent fourteen consecutive weeks at number one, giving him a total of seventeen weeks atop the chart in 1947, the most by any artist. Two weeks after Travis relinquished the number one position, Eddy Arnold achieved the first chart-topper of his career with "What Is Life Without Love".[3] He would have two more number ones before the end of the year, making him the only artist with three chart-toppers in 1947, and finish the year with a total of fourteen weeks at number one. Arnold would dominate the Folk chart the following year, spending almost all of 1948 at number one. He would remain popular into the 1950s before his career went into a decline,[4] however he would revive his fortunes in the mid-1960s by embracing the "Nashville sound", a newer style of country music which eschewed elements of the earlier honky-tonk style in favour of smooth productions which had a broader appeal,[5] and end his career with a record total of 28 country number one singles.[3][4] Arnold ended 1947 in the number one position with "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)", which would remain at the top well into 1948.[3]

The longest unbroken run at number one in 1947 was the fifteen consecutive weeks achieved by Tex Williams with "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)", which was atop the chart from July until October. This was the first chart-topper for Williams in his own right, although he had been the uncredited vocalist on Western swing bandleader Spade Cooley's 1945 number one "Shame on You".[6] Following the success of that record, Cooley and Williams had fallen out, leading to Williams leaving Cooley's band and taking most of the musicians with him to form the new group Western Caravan, which backed him on "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!"[7] Of the six different acts to top the Juke Box Folk chart in 1947, all except for Williams have been elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.[8]

Chart history

A smiling man wearing a cowboy hat and neckerchief
Bob Wills, the "King of Western Swing", topped the chart with "Sugar Moon".
A smiling man wearing a cowboy hat and neckerchief
Red Foley reached number one with "New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde)", one of three versions of the song to enter the chart in 1947.[9]
A blond-haired man wearing a sport coat and a roll-neck sweater, singing and playing a guitar
Eddy Arnold (pictured in 1969) topped the chart for the first time in 1947. He would go on to become one of the most successful singers in country music history.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 4 "Divorce Me C.O.D." Merle Travis [10]
January 11 [11]
January 18 "Rainbow at Midnight" Ernest Tubb [12]
January 25 "Divorce Me C.O.D." Merle Travis [13]
February 1 "Rainbow at Midnight" Ernest Tubb [14]
February 8 "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" Merle Travis [15]
February 15 [16]
February 22 [17]
March 1 [18]
March 8 [19]
March 15 [20]
March 22 [21]
March 29 [22]
April 5 [23]
April 12 [24]
April 19 [25]
April 26 [26]
May 3 [27]
May 10 [28]
May 17 "New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde)" Red Foley and the Cumberland Valley Boys [29]
May 24 "What Is Life Without Love" Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys [30]
May 31 "New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde)" Red Foley and the Cumberland Valley Boys [31]
June 7 "Sugar Moon" Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys [32]
June 14 "It's a Sin" Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys [33]
June 21 [34]
June 28 [35]
July 5 [36]
July 12 [37]
July 19 "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" Tex Williams's Western Caravan [38]
July 26 [39]
August 2 [40]
August 9 [41]
August 16 [42]
August 23 [43]
August 30 [44]
September 6 [45]
September 13 [46]
September 20 [47]
September 27 [48]
October 4 [49]
October 11 [50]
October 18 [51]
October 25 [52]
November 1 "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys [53]
November 8 "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" Tex Williams's Western Caravan [54]
November 15 "I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)" Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys [55]
November 22 [56]
November 29 [57]
December 6 [58]
December 13 [59]
December 20 [60]
December 27 [61]

See also

References

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  3. 1 2 3 Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Watson-Guptill. pp. 335, 507. ISBN 0823076326.
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  9. ↑ Brasseaux, Ryan Andre (2009). Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music. Oxford University Press. p. 169. ISBN 9780199711314.
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