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Why this album mattered
The Best Of Lou Rawls (1968) is a Lou Rawls album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #103 and charted for 16 weeks.
The music
- 1
Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing
- 2
Southside Blues (monologue)
- 3
Tobacco Road
- 4
It Was a Very Good Year
- 5
Dead End Street (monologue)
- 6
Dead End Street
- 7
Street Corner Hustler’s Blues (monologue)
- 8
World of Trouble
- 9
Three O’Clock in the Morning
10 Trouble Down Here Below
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
- Aug 31, 1968#185
A rocket up the chart — jumping 29 positions in a single week on its way to the top. Entered at #185, exploded upward for 13 weeks to reach #103 and fell quickly over 3 more weeks across 16 weeks on the chart.
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
