A good year…if I do say so myself. We’re going to count down the top ten of the year 1952…in pop, country, and R&B. The music that year featured sounds that portended the birth of rock ‘n roll, the blossoming of the Golden Age of Country, and the droll mainstream charts couldn’t have been more ripe for steamrolling. Webb Pierce and Hank Williams dominated the country charts while the white bread pop charts found Al Martino, Johnny Ray, and Rosemary Clooney. But it was the R&B charts that mirrored the emerging energy of swing, rhythm and blues, and rock with the likes of The Clovers, Ruth Brown, and The Five Royales. The DOW Jones average closed at an all-time high of (a whopping) 269.86. Tune in for the countdown. 67 years in the rear-view on Sonoma County Community Radio.
| No. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
| 2 | Ella Fitzgerald | Goody, Goody | 75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] |  |
| 3 | Percy Faith | Delicado | 16 Most Requested Songs | |
| 4 | Willie Mabon | I Don't Know | Atlantic Blues: Piano | |
| 5 | Eddy Arnold | A Full Time Job | Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job | |
| 6 | Al Martino | Here In My Heart | Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po | |
| 7 | Ruth Brown | 5-10-15 Hours | Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits | |
| 8 | Hank Williams | I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive | Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5 | |
| 9 | Patti Page | I Went To Your Wedding | The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1 | |
| 10 | The 5 Royales | Baby Don't Do It | The Complete Singles 1952-1962 | |
| 11 | Webb Pierce | Back Street Affair | All Hits! [Disc 1] | |
| 12 | Eddie Fisher | Wish You Were Here | The Great American Crooners [Disc 5] | |
| 13 | Little Walter | Juke | Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2] | |
| 14 | Carl Smith | (When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There | The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) | |
| 15 | Rosemary Clooney | Half As Much | Tenderly | |
| 16 | Fats Domino | Goin' Home | Rock And Rollin | |
| 17 | Lefty Frizzell | Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses) | Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night) | |
| 18 | Vera Lynn | Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart | White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1] | |
| 19 | Johnny Ace | My Song | Memorial Album | |
| 20 | Webb Pierce | That Heart Belongs To Me | All Hits! [Disc 1] | |
| 21 | Jo Stafford | You Belong To Me | Your Hit Parade – 1952 | |
| 22 | The Clovers | One Mint Julep | Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1] | |
| 23 | Slim Whitman | Indian Love Call | Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life | |
| 24 | Johnny Ray | Cry | The Best Jukeboxhits | |
| 25 | Jimmy Forrest | Night Train Mambo | Rumba Gone Mambo | |
| 26 | Kitty Wells | It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels | Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2] | |
| 27 | Kay Starr | Wheel Of Fortune | Shutter Island [Disc 2] | |
| 28 | Billy Ward & the Dominoes | Have Mercy Baby | Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1 | |
| 29 | Webb Pierce | Wondering | All Hits! [Disc 1] | |
| 30 | Leroy Anderson | Blue Tango | Instrumental Gold [Disc 1] | |
| 31 | Lloyd Price | Lawdy Miss Clawdy | Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1 | |
| 32 | Hank Williams | Jambalaya (On the Bayou) | 24 Greatest | |
| 33 | Bull Moose Jackson | Nosey Joe | Badman Jackson Thats Me | |
| 34 | Nat King Cole | Unforgettable | Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) | |