R&B number-one hits of 1944 (USA)

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This list of R&B #1 hits of 1944 in the United States is part of the List of #1 R&B hits (USA).


Issue Date Song Title Artist Weeks at #1
January 1 Ration Blues Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 1 week
January 15 Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra 8 weeks*
January 22 G.I. Jive Johnny Mercer with Paul Weston And His Orchestra 1 week
March 11 Solo Flight Benny Goodman and His Orchestra 1 week
March 25 Cow-Cow Boogie (Cuma-Ti-Yi-Yi-Ay) The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald 1 week
April 1 Main Stem Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra 4 weeks*
April 15 When My Man Comes Home Buddy Johnson and His Band 1 week
April 29 Straighten Up and Fly Right The Nat King Cole Trio 10 weeks*
July 15 G.I. Jive Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five 6 weeks*
August 19 Till Then The Mills Brothers 1 week
September 2 Hamp's Boogie Woogie Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra 6 weeks*
September 30 I'm Lost Benny Carter and His Orchestra 2 weeks*
October 21 Gee-Baby - Ain’t I Good to You The Nat King Cole Trio 4 weeks
November 18 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald 11 weeks*

An asterisk (*) after a song title means that the song lost and then regained the number-one spot.