Other #1 songs on August 2, 1948
Across genres and charts

#1 country song

Bouquet of Roses

Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys

#1 R&B song

I Can't Go on Without You

Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats

Notable August 2 Birthdays
Born in the 1940s

Doris Coley

Singer

Born August 2, 1941

Isabel Allende

Writer

Born August 2, 1942

Herbert M. Allison

Businessman

Born August 2, 1943

Joanna Cassidy

Actress

Born August 2, 1945

James Howe

Children's Writer

Born August 2, 1946

Lawrence Wright

Writer and Journalist

Born August 2, 1947

Dennis Prager

Conservative Activist

Born August 2, 1948

James Fallows

Writer and Journalist

Born August 2, 1949

Nell Irvin Painter

Historian

Born August 2, 1942