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Bill Doggett Songs

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William Ballard Doggett (February 16, 1916 - November 13, 1996) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist. He is best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy", and variously working with the Ink Spots, Johnny Otis, Wynonie Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan.

Below is a list of Bill Doggett songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: King 4950
chart position: RandB #1, US #2
weeksinr&bchart: 28
written by: Bill Doggett, Billy Butler, Clifford Scott and Shep Shepherd
album: Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Honky Tonk (Parts 1 and 2)
1956 King
2 record label: King 5000
chart position: RandB #4, US #26
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: Sil Austin
album: Wow!
comments: instrumental
Bill Doggett Slow Walk
1956 King
3 record label: King 5149
chart position: RandB #3, US #92
weeksinr&bchart: 15
written by: Clifford Scott and Billy Butler
album: Hold It
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Hold It
1958 King
4 record label: King 5020
chart position: RandB #10, US #67
weeksinr&bchart: 3
written by: Henry Glover, Lucky Millinder and Jimmy Mundy
album: Wow!
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Ram-Bunk-Shush
1957 King
5 record label: King 5080
chart position: US #35
written by: Tiny Bradshaw
comments: instrumental
Bill Doggett Soft
1957 King
6 record label: Parlophone 4413
chart position: RandB #13
weeksinr&bchart: 1
written by: Scott, Ellis, Butler and Shepherd
album: Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Leaps and Bounds (Part 1)
1958 Parlophone
7 record label: King 5159
chart position: RandB #15
weeksinr&bchart: 5
written by: Andy Gibson and Angelyn Carlington
album: Hold It
comments: instrumental
Bill Doggett Rainbow Riot (Part 1)
1959 King
8 record label: Warner Bros. 5181
chart position: US #66
written by: Bill Doggett, Billy Butler
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett (Let's Do the) Hully Gully Twist
1960 Warner Bros.
9 record label: King 5138
chart position: US #82
written by: Candy Johnson
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Blip Blop
1958 King
10 record label: King 5176
chart position: RandB #27
weeksinr&bchart: 2
written by: Henry Glover
Bill Doggett Monster Party
1959 King
11 record label: King 5256
chart position: RandB #30
weeksinr&bchart: 1
written by: Bill Doggett
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Yocky Dock (Part 1)
1959 King
12 record label: King 5310
chart position: US #95
written by: Black
comments: [instrumental]
Bill Doggett Smokie (Part II)
1960 King




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