The #1 R&B song on May 31, 1949

Trouble Blues By The Charles Brown Trio

Other #1 songs on May 31, 1949

#1 Hit Song

(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend
Vaughn Monroe

#1 Country Song

Lovesick Blues
Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys

Notable May 31 birthdays in the 1940s

Jack Baldwin
Race Car Driver
Born May 31, 1948

Diane Langton
TV Actress
Born May 31, 1947

Jim Bates
Football Coach
Born May 31, 1946

Jonis Agee
Screenwriter
Born May 31, 1943

Helen Fisher
Anthropologist
Born May 31, 1945

Louis Ignarro
Pharmacologist
Born May 31, 1941