The #1 R&B song on January 12, 1948

(Opportunity Knocks But Once) Snatch and Grab It By Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends

Other #1 songs on January 12, 1948

#1 Hit Song

Ballerina
Vaughn Monroe

#1 Country Song

I'll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms)
Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys

Notable January 12 birthdays in the 1940s

Tom Dempsey

Born January 12, 1947

George Duke

Born January 12, 1946

Joe Frazier

Born January 12, 1944

Bernardine Dohrn

Born January 12, 1942

Long John Baldry

Born January 12, 1941

Ronald Shannon Jackson

Born January 12, 1940