Trouble Blues

"Trouble Blues"
Single by Charles Brown
B-side "Honey Keep Your Mind on Me"
Released March 1949 (1949-03)
Format 10" 78 rpm record
Recorded Radio Recorders, Los Angeles
January 14, 1949 (1949-01-14)
Genre Blues
Length 02:21
Label Aladdin (Cat. no. 3024)
Writer(s) Charles Brown
Charles Brown singles chronology
"Long Time"
(1949)		 "Trouble Blues"
(1949)		 "In the Evening when the Sun Goes Down"
(1949)

"Trouble Blues" is a 1949 single by The Charles Brown Trio. The single was the most successful of the trio's career and peaked at number one on the R&B chart for fifteen weeks.[1] At fifteen weeks on the R&B Best Sellers chart, "Trouble Blues" was the most successful R&B song of the year.[2]

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 82. 
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 799. 
Preceded by
"The Huckle buck" by Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers		 Billboard Best Selling Retail Rhythm & Blues Records number-one single
June 4, 1949		 Succeeded by
"The Huckle buck" by Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers
"Ain't Nobody's Business (Parts 1 &2) by Jimmy Witherspoon