Best Selling R&B Soul Songs on the Brunswick label
Brunswick

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1 record label: Brunswick 55166
chart position: RandB #1 (3 weeks), US #15
weeksinr&bchart: 19
written by: Lena Agree
album: Jackie Sings The Blues
 		Jackie Wilson Doggin' Around
1960 Brunswick
2 record label: Brunswick 55462
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, UK #3
written by: Barbara Acklin & Eugene Record
album: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
 		The Chi-Lites Have You Seen Her
1971 Brunswick
3 record label: Brunswick 55239
chart position: RandB #1 (3 weeks), US #5
weeksinr&bchart: 14
written by: Jackie Wilson & Alonzo Tucker
album: Baby Workout
Jackie Wilson Baby Workout
1963 Brunswick
4 record label: Brunswick 55105
chart position: RandB #1, US #7
written by: Berry Gordy and Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] (as Tyran Carlo)
album: Lonely Teardrops
comments: [Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs #308]
 		Jackie Wilson Lonely Teardrops
1959 Brunswick
5 record label: Brunswick 55471
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #14, US AC #34
written by: Barbara Acklin & Eugene Record
album: A Lonely Man / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
 		The Chi-Lites Oh Girl
1972 Brunswick
6 record label: Brunswick 55505
chart position: RandB #3, US #54, UK #5
written by: Stan McKenney and Eugene Record
album: Chi Lites
comments: [sweet soul]
 		The Chi-Lites Homely Girl
1974 Brunswick
7 record label: Brunswick 4027
chart position: RandB #1 (4 weeks), US #15
weeksinr&bchart: 13
written by: Sid Wyche
album: A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
 		Jackie Wilson A Woman, a Lover, a Friend
1960 Brunswick
8 record label: Brunswick 55391
chart position: RandB #3, US #3, US AC #2
written by: Eugene Record & William Sanders
album: Soulful Strut
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
Young-Holt Unlimited Soulful Strut
1968 Brunswick
9 record label: Brunswick 55336
chart position: RandB #1, US #6
written by: Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner & Carl Smith
album: Higher and Higher
comments: [northern soul]
 		Jackie Wilson (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
1967 Brunswick
10 record label: Brunswick 55166
chart position: RandB #3 (1 week), US #4
weeksinr&bchart: 13
written by: Camille Saint Saëns (as Saint Saëns), Johnny Lehman & Herb Miller
album: A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
comments: [ballad]
 		Jackie Wilson Night
1960 Brunswick
11 record label: Brunswick 55165
chart position: RandB #3, US #34
written by: Sid Wyche
album: So Much
 		Jackie Wilson Talk That Talk
1959 Brunswick
12 record label: Brunswick 55300
chart position: RandB #5, US #11
written by: Barbara Acklin & David Scott
album: Whispers
comments: [northern soul]
 		Jackie Wilson Whispers (Gettin' Louder)
1966 Brunswick
13 record label: Brunswick 55149
chart position: RandB #1, US #37
written by: Jackie Wilson and Norman Henry
album: Lonely Teardrops
 		Jackie Wilson You Better Know It
1959 Brunswick
14 record label: Brunswick 55136
chart position: RandB #6, US #20
written by: Berry Gordy (as Berry Gordy Jr.) and Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] (as Tyran Carlo)
album: So Much
 		Jackie Wilson I'll Be Satisfied
1959 Brunswick
15 record label: Brunswick 34
chart position: RandB #50, UK #3
written by: Barbara Acklin & Eugene Record
 		The Chi-Lites You Don't Have to Go
1976 Brunswick
16 record label: Brunswick 55379
chart position: RandB #3, US #15
written by: Eugene Record, William Sanders & Carl Davis
album: Love Makes a Woman
Barbara Acklin Love Makes a Woman
1968 Brunswick
17 record label: Brunswick 20
chart position: UK #5, US #83
written by: Barbara Acklin and Eugene Record
album: (For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People
comments: [sweet soul ballad] [b/w Oh Girl]
 		The Chi-Lites Have You Seen Her
1974 Brunswick
18 record label: Brunswick 55450
chart position: RandB #4, US #26, UK #32
written by: Eugene Record
album: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People
1971 Brunswick
19 record label: Brunswick 55201
chart position: RandB #25, US #9
written by: Hank Hunter & Al Kasha
 		Jackie Wilson My Empty Arms
1961 Brunswick
20 record label: Brunswick 55170
chart position: RandB #10, US #32
weeksinr&bchart: 8
written by: Bob Hamilton and Tom King
album: A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
Jackie Wilson Am I the Man
1960 Brunswick
21 record label: Brunswick 25
chart position: RandB #27, US #94, UK #5
written by: Eugene Record
album: Half a Love
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
 		The Chi-Lites It's Time For Love
1975 Brunswick
22 record label: Brunswick 55500
chart position: RandB #2, US #30, UK #57
written by: Eugene Record & Barbara Acklin
album: The Chi-Lites
The Chi-Lites Stoned Out of My Mind
1973 Brunswick
23 record label: Brunswick 19
chart position: RandB #62, UK #6, US dance #11
written by: Hamilton Bohannon
album: Insides Out
comments: [disco funk]
 		Hamilton Bohannon Disco Stomp
1975 Brunswick
24 record label: Brunswick 55170
chart position: RandB #20, US #8, UK #50
written by: Johnny Lehman
 		Jackie Wilson Alone at Last
1960 Brunswick
25 record label: Brunswick 55436
chart position: RandB #14, US #30
written by: Gus Redmond, Larry Brownlee & Lowrell Simon
album: The Sly, the Slick and the Wicked
comments: [ballad]
 		The Lost Generation The Sly, the Slick and the Wicked
1970 Brunswick
26 record label: Brunswick 55305
chart position: RandB #12, US #40, US AC #35
written by: Eldee Young , Isaac Holt & Don Walker
album: Wack Wack
comments: [jazz funk instrumental]
Young-Holt Unlimited Wack Wack
1966 Brunswick
27 record label: Brunswick 55121
chart position: RandB #2, US #13
written by: Berry Gordy (as Berry Gordy Jr.) and Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] (as Tyran Carlo)
album: Lonely Teardrops
 		Jackie Wilson That's Why (I Love You So)
1959 Brunswick
28 record label: Brunswick 55024
chart position: UK #6, US #62
written by: Berry Gordy and Billy Davis [Roquel Davis] (as Tyran Carlo)
album: He's So Fine
 		Jackie Wilson Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)
1957 Brunswick
29 record label: Brunswick 9 55201
chart position: RandB #10, US #32
weeksinr&bchart: 7
written by: Peter Udell and Gary Geld
 		Jackie Wilson The Tear of the Year
1961 Brunswick
30 record label: Brunswick 55491
chart position: RandB #3, US #3
written by: Eugene Record & Sandra Drayton
album: A Letter to Myself
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
The Chi-Lites A Letter to Myself
1973 Brunswick
31 record label: Brunswick 55478
chart position: RandB #8, US #47
written by: Carl Davis & Eugene Record
album: A Lonely Man / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites The Coldest Days of My Life (Part 1 and 2)
1972 Brunswick
32 record label: Brunswick 55216
chart position: RandB #9, US #19
weeksinr&bchart: 5
written by: Al Kasha & Horace Ott
 		Jackie Wilson I'm Comin' On Back to You
1961 Brunswick
33 record label: Brunswick 55208
chart position: RandB #11, US #20
weeksinr&bchart: 6
written by: Joyce Lee
 		Jackie Wilson Please Tell Me Why
1961 Brunswick
34 record label: Brunswick 55301
chart position: RandB #9, US #55
written by: Jesse Bolian ,Lawrence Johnson & Marvin Smith
album: I'm Gonna Miss You
comments: [Sweet Soul]
 		The Artistics I'm Gonna Miss You
1966 Brunswick
35 record label: Brunswick 55052
chart position: RandB #7, US #22, UK #23
written by: Berry Gordy, Gwen Gordy (as Gwendolyn Gordy) and Billy Davis [Roquel Davis]
album: He's So Fine
comments: [ballad]
 		Jackie Wilson To Be Loved
1958 Brunswick
36 record label: Brunswick 211
chart position: RandB #5. US #81, US Dance #38
written by: Vaughan Mason , Gregory Bufford and Jerome Bell
album: Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
 		Vaughan Mason & Crew Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
1980 Brunswick
37 record label: Brunswick 55503
chart position: RandB #17, US #47, UK #35
written by: Eugene Record
album: The Chi Lites
 		The Chi-Lites I Found Sunshine
1973 Brunswick
38 record label: Brunswick 55512
chart position: UK #10
written by: Eugene Record and Barbara Acklin
album: Chi Lites
 		The Chi-Lites Too Good to Be Forgotten
1974 Brunswick
39 record label: Brunswick 15
chart position: RandB #7, US #78
written by: Eugene Record, Barbara Acklin, Archie Powell and Tony Boyd
album: Toby
 		The Chi-Lites Toby
1974 Brunswick
40 record label: Brunswick 15 (UK)
chart position: RandB #7, US #78
written by: Powell, Boyd
album: Toby
comments: [Double A Side with
The Chi-Lites That's How Long
1974 Brunswick
41 record label: Brunswick 3050
chart position: US #12, UK #33
written by: Billy Myles and Jackie Wilson
 		Jackie Wilson (You Were Made For) All My Love
1960 Brunswick
42 record label: Brunswick 13
chart position: RandB #8, US #63
written by: Eugene Record
album: Toby
 		The Chi-Lites There Will Never Be Any Peace
1974 Brunswick
43 record label: Brunswick 55442
chart position: RandB #8, US #72
written by: Eugene Record
album: I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine) / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
comments: [funky soul]
 		The Chi-Lites Are You My Woman? (Tell Me So)
1970 Brunswick
44 record label: Brunswick 55269
chart position: RandB #16
written by: Alonzo Tucker and Jackie Wilson
 		Jackie Wilson Give Me Back My Heart
1964 Brunswick
45 record label: Brunswick 55398
chart position: RandB #10, US #88
written by: Carl Davis and Eugene Record
album: Give It Away / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites Give It Away
1969 Brunswick
46 record label: Brunswick 213
chart position: UK #20, US Dance #15
written by: B. Young, B. Hank and M. Young
comments: [disco funk]
 		Young & Company I Like (What You're Doing to Me)
1980 Brunswick
47 record label: Brunswick 10
chart position: RandB #11, US #57
written by: Leo Graham
album: It's All in the Game
 		Tyrone Davis I Wish It Was Me
1974 Brunswick
48 record label: Brunswick 55438
chart position: RandB #11, US #72
written by: Eugene Record and Sandy Wilburn
album: I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine) / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
comments: [funky soul]
 		The Chi-Lites I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine)
1970 Brunswick
49 record label: Brunswick 55489
chart position: RandB #13, US #61
written by: Quinton Joseph and Eugene Record
album: A Letter to Myself
 		The Chi-Lites We Need Order
1972 Brunswick
50 record label: Brunswick 55221
chart position: Cashbox R&B #9, US #34
written by: Billy Myles
 		Jackie Wilson The Greatest Hurt
1962 Brunswick
51 record label: Brunswick 55443
chart position: RandB #9, US #56
written by: Johnny Moore and Jack Daniels
album: This Love Is Real
comments: [dance]
 		Jackie Wilson (I Can Feel Those Vibrations) This Love Is Real
1970 Brunswick
52 record label: Brunswick 55387
chart position: RandB #16, US #57
written by: Barbara Acklin, Carl Davis and Eugene Record
 		Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin From the Teacher to the Preacher
1968 Brunswick
53 record label: Brunswick 55354
chart position: RandB #22, US #32
written by: Gary Jackson, Floyd Smith and Gerald Sims
album: I Get The Sweetest Feeling
 		Jackie Wilson Since You Showed Me How to Be Happy
1967 Brunswick
54 record label: Brunswick 55381
chart position: RandB #12, US #34
written by: Van McCoy and Alicia Evelyn
album: I Get the Sweetest Feeling
comments: [northern soul]
 		Jackie Wilson I Get the Sweetest Feeling
1968 Brunswick
55 record label: Brunswick 55309
chart position: RandB #11, US #84
written by: Karl Tarleton and Carl Davis
album: Whispers
 		Jackie Wilson I Don't Want to Lose You
1967 Brunswick
56 record label: Brunswick 36
chart position: US Dance #11
written by: Hamilton Bohannon
album: Dance Your Ass Off
 		Hamilton Bohannon Dance Your Ass Off
1976 Brunswick
57 record label: Brunswick 55246
chart position: RandB #21, US #33
written by: Bobby Adams and Bobby Stevenson
album: Baby Workout
 		Jackie Wilson Shake, Shake, Shake
1963 Brunswick
58 record label: Brunswick 55514
chart position: RandB #15, US #83
written by: Eugene Record and Lowrell Simon
album: Toby
 		The Chi-Lites You Got to Be the One
1974 Brunswick
59 record label: Brunswick 755414
chart position: RandB #15, US #94
written by: Barbara Acklin and Eugene Record
album: Give It Away / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites Let Me Be the Man My Daddy Was
1969 Brunswick
60 record label: Brunswick 55312
chart position: RandB #16. US #66
written by: Keni St. Lewis and Gene Chandler (as Eugene Dixon)
album: The Girl Don't Care
 		Gene Chandler The Girl Don't Care
1967 Brunswick
61 record label: Brunswick 55219
chart position: RandB #25, US #37
written by: Alonzo Tucker, Robert Adams and Horace Ott
 		Jackie Wilson Years from Now
1961 Brunswick
62 record label: Brunswick 55208
chart position: Cashbox R&B #48, US #40
written by: Billy Myles and Jackie Wilson
 		Jackie Wilson Your One and Only Love
1961 Brunswick
63 record label: Brunswick 55455
chart position: RandB #17, US #70
written by: Quinton Joseph and Eugene Record
album: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites We Are Neighbors
1971 Brunswick
64 record label: Brunswick 55219
chart position: RandB #19, US #79
written by: Alonzo Tucker, Jackie Wilson and Morris Levy
 		Jackie Wilson You Don't Know What It Means
1961 Brunswick
65 record label: Brunswick 55365
chart position: RandB #26, US #49
written by: Arthur Brooks, Jerry Butler and Richard Brooks
 		Jackie Wilson & Count Basie For Your Precious Love
1968 Brunswick
66 record label: Brunswick 24 (UK)
chart position: UK #49
written by: Hamilton Bohannon
album: Insides Out
 		Hamilton Bohannon Happy Feeling
1975 Brunswick
67 record label: Brunswick 55229
chart position: RandB #17, US #70
written by: Jackie Wilson and Alonzo Tucker
 		Jackie Wilson I Just Can't Help It
1962 Brunswick
68 record label: Brunswick 55383
chart position: UK #51
written by: James Brown and Bud Hobgood (as Buddy Hobgood)
 		Gene Chandler There Was a Time
1976 Brunswick
69 record label: Brunswick 55429
chart position: RandB #22, US #91
written by: Carl Davis, Willie Henderson and Tom Washington
album: Funky Chicken
comments: [funk instrumental]
 		Willie Henderson & Soul Explosions Funky Chicken (Part 1)
1970 Brunswick
70 record label: Brunswick 55383
chart position: RandB #22, US #82
written by: James Brown and Bud Hobgood (as Buddy Hobgood)
album: There Was a Time
 		Gene Chandler There Was a Time
1968 Brunswick
71 record label: Brunswick 55388
chart position: RandB #23, US #67
written by: Carl Davis and Eugene Record
album: Seven Days of Night
 		Barbara Acklin Just Ain't No Love
1968 Brunswick
72 record label: Brunswick 55461
chart position: RandB #18, US #95
written by: Floyd Smith and Ritchie Tufano
album: You Got Me Walking
 		Jackie Wilson Love Is Funny That Way
1971 Brunswick
73 record label: Brunswick 55225
chart position: Cashbox R&B #34, US #58
written by: Larry Stock
 		Jackie Wilson Hearts
1962 Brunswick
74 record label: Brunswick 55220
chart position: Cashbox R&B #34, US #58
written by: Gary Geld and Peter Udell
 		Jackie Wilson The Way I Am
1961 Brunswick
75 record label: Brunswick 55483
chart position: US #57
written by: Eugene Record
album: A Lonely Man
 		The Chi-Lites The Man and The Woman (The Boy and The Girl)
1972 Brunswick
76 record label: Brunswick 55280
chart position: RandB #25, US #59
written by: Frederic Weatherly (as Frederick Weatherly)
 		Jackie Wilson No Pity (In the Naked City)
1965 Brunswick
77 record label: Brunswick 55483
chart position: RandB #25, US #57
written by: Eugene Record and J. Edward Haycroft
album: A Lonely Man / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites A Lonely Man
1972 Brunswick
78 record label: Brunswick 55400
chart position: Cashbox R&B #32, US #57
written by: Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Don Davis and Raymond Jackson
album: Soulful Strut
comments: [instrumental]
 		Young-Holt Unlimited Who's Making Love
1969 Brunswick
79 record label: Brunswick 55250
chart position: US #61
written by: Jackie Wilson and Alonzo Tucker
 		Jackie Wilson Baby Get It (And Don't Quit It)
1963 Brunswick
80 record label: Brunswick 55220
chart position: US #65
written by: Dorothy Daniels and Frank Daniels
 		Jackie Wilson My Heart Belongs to Only You
1961 Brunswick
81 record label: Brunswick 55418
chart position: RandB #21, US #108
written by: Eugene Record and Carl Davis
 		Jackie Wilson Helpless
1969 Brunswick
82 record label: Brunswick 55467
chart position: RandB #22, US #93
written by: Eugene Record
album: You Got Me Walking
 		Jackie Wilson You Got Me Walking
1972 Brunswick
83 record label: Brunswick 55315
chart position: RandB #26, US #69
written by: Barbara Griffin, Daniel Reed and Tommy Green
album: I'm Gonna Miss You
comments: [northern soul]
 		The Artistics Girl I Need You
1967 Brunswick
84 record label: Brunswick 55441
chart position: RandB #25, US #127
written by: Eugene record
album: The Sly, Slick And The Wicked
comments: [ballad]
 		The Lost Generation Wait a Minute
1970 Brunswick
85 record label: Brunswick 55392
chart position: US #70
written by: Ronald Miller [Ronald Norman Miller] (as Ron Miller) and Orlando Murden
 		Jackie Wilson For Once in My Life
1968 Brunswick
86 record label: Brunswick 55419
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Fred Hughes
 		Fred Hughes Baby Boy
1969 Brunswick
87 record label: Brunswick 55221
chart position: US #75
written by: Alonzo Tucker and Bobby Adams
 		Jackie Wilson There'll Be No Next Time
1962 Brunswick
88 record label: Brunswick 37 (UK)
chart position: UK #51
written by: Fred Hughes
 		Fred Hughes Baby Boy
1976 Brunswick
89 record label: Brunswick 55216
chart position: Cashbox R&B #49, US #80
written by: Al Kasha and Alan Thomas
 		Jackie Wilson Lonely Life
1961 Brunswick
90 record label: Brunswick 55440
chart position: RandB #28, US #121
written by: Eugene Record
album: I Did It
 		Barbara Acklin I Did It
1970 Brunswick
91 record label: Brunswick 55299
chart position: Cashbox RandB #27
written by: Carl Davis, Marvin Smith
 		Marvin Smith Time Stopped
1966 Brunswick
92 record label: Brunswick 55321
chart position: RandB #35, US #82
written by: Van McCoy
album: Higher and Higher
comments: [northern soul]
 		Jackie Wilson I've Lost You
1967 Brunswick
93 record label: Brunswick 55426
chart position: RandB #30, US #119
written by: Carl Davis and Eugene Record
album: Give It Away / The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
 		The Chi-Lites 24 Hours of Sadness
1970 Brunswick
94 record label: Brunswick 55233
chart position: US #82
written by: Al Kasha and Hank Hunter
 		Jackie Wilson Forever And A Day
1962 Brunswick
95 record label: Brunswick 55399
chart position: RandB #33, US #79
written by: Eugene Record and Sonny Sanders
album: Seven Days of Night
 		Barbara Acklin Am I the Same Girl
1969 Brunswick
96 record label: Brunswick 55373
chart position: RandB #37, US #84
written by: Sam Cooke and Charles Cooke
 		Jackie Wilson & Count Basie Chain Gang
1968 Brunswick
97 record label: Brunswick 55269
chart position: US #89
written by: Alonzo Tucker and Jackie Wilson
 		Jackie Wilson Squeeze Her - Tease Her (But Love Her)
1964 Brunswick
98 record label: Brunswick 55366
chart position: RandB #30
written by: Barbara Acklin, Carl Davis and Gene Chandler (as Eugene Dixon)
 		Gene Chandler & Barbara Acklin Show Me the Way to Go
1968 Brunswick
99 record label: Brunswick 55309
chart position: RandB #43, US #91
written by: Bernard Reed, Danny Reed and Othie Wright
album: Whispers
 		Jackie Wilson Just Be Sincere
1967 Brunswick
100 record label: Brunswick 55435
chart position: RandB #34, US #91
written by: Eugene Record
album: This Love Is Real
comments: [ballad]
 		Jackie Wilson Let This Be a Letter (To My Baby)
1970 Brunswick


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