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.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Ella Fitzgerald	Goody, Goody	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]
2	Percy Faith	Delicado	16 Most Requested Songs
3	Willie Mabon	I Don't Know	Atlantic Blues: Piano
4	Eddy Arnold	A Full Time Job	Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job
5	Al Martino	Here In My Heart	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po
6	Ruth Brown	5-10-15 Hours	Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits
7	Hank Williams	I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive	Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5
8	Patti Page	I Went To Your Wedding	The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1
9	The 5 Royales	Baby Don't Do It	The Complete Singles 1952-1962
10	Webb Pierce	Back Street Affair	All Hits! [Disc 1]
11	Eddie Fisher	Wish You Were Here	The Great American Crooners [Disc 5]
12	Little Walter	Juke	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
13	Carl Smith	(When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There	The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)
14	Rosemary Clooney	Half As Much	Tenderly
15	Fats Domino	Goin' Home	Rock And Rollin
16	Lefty Frizzell	Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses)	Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night)
17	Vera Lynn	Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart	White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1]
18	Johnny Ace	My Song	Memorial Album
19	Webb Pierce	That Heart Belongs To Me	All Hits! [Disc 1]
20	Jo Stafford	You Belong To Me	Your Hit Parade – 1952
21	The Clovers	One Mint Julep	Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
22	Slim Whitman	Indian Love Call	Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life
23	Johnny Ray	Cry	The Best Jukeboxhits
24	Jimmy Forrest	Night Train Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
25	Kitty Wells	It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels	Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2]
26	Kay Starr	Wheel Of Fortune	Shutter Island [Disc 2]
27	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
28	Webb Pierce	Wondering	All Hits! [Disc 1]
29	Leroy Anderson	Blue Tango	Instrumental Gold [Disc 1]
30	Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1
31	Hank Williams	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	24 Greatest
32	Bull Moose Jackson	Nosey Joe	Badman Jackson Thats Me
33	Nat King Cole	Unforgettable	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)