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Album Chart of 1939 |
LEAD BELLY TAKES MY FIRST ALBUM CHART HONOURS
The 51 year old folk singer with a chequered past sits proudly in 1939 with a great album to his name; the first of two that he would record for the Musicraft label out of New York.
The highly prolific artist would go on to deliver several albums of work in the first half of the 1940s - no mean feat in that era.
The Jukebox Rebel
18-Jun-2015
Lead Belly
Musicraft 31
“Brilliant” Folk; Blues / Rhythm n Blues
Jukebox picks: “The Bourgeois Blues [1939 version]” (9.5) • “Frankie And Albert [1939 version, part 2]” (9.2) • “Frankie And Albert [1939 version, part 1]” (9.0)
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Album Charts by year
“A-list”
1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
“B-list”
1943 1945 1946 1950 1951 1952 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Album Charts by decade
“A-list”
1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s