The year in music
Best Songs of 1949
RCA Victor introduces the 45 rpm single, and Billboard starts calling its chart “rhythm and blues”. Hank Williams records “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”; Miles Davis begins the “Birth of the Cool” sessions.
Play 1949
4 songs
1949 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 4 songs first released in 1949. Country, Jazz and Folk lead the year. Édith Piaf, Hank Williams and Pee Wee King are among the voices of 1949.