The #1 R&B song on August 23, 1948

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

Other #1 songs on August 23, 1948

#1 Hit Song

Twelfth Street Rag
Pee Wee Hunt

#1 Country Song

Bouquet of Roses
Eddy Arnold and his Tennessee Plowboys

Notable August 23 birthdays in the 1940s

Shelley Long

Born August 23, 1949

Rayfield Wright

Born August 23, 1945

Antonia Novello

Born August 23, 1944

Nelson DeMille

Born August 23, 1943

Nancy Richey

Born August 23, 1942

Galen Rowell

Born August 23, 1940