The #1 R&B song on August 17, 1948

I Can't Go on Without You By Bull Moose Jackson and His Buffalo Bearcats

Other #1 songs on August 17, 1948

#1 Hit Song

You Call Everybody Darlin'
Al Trace

#1 Country Song

Bouquet of Roses
Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys

Notable August 17 birthdays in the 1940s

Norm Coleman

Born August 17, 1949
Gary Talley

Born August 17, 1947
Martha Coolidge

Born August 17, 1946
Rachel Pollack

Born August 17, 1945
Larry Ellison

Born August 17, 1944
Robert De Niro

Born August 17, 1943
Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Born August 17, 1941