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Number of weeks spent as #1: 6Texan Al Dexter helped popularize the honky-tonk genre with songs about a man who’s “lonely and blue,” losing his mind over a woman. Dexter was a regular feature on the Billboard Juke Box Folk Record charts in the ’40s, with other big hits like “Pistol Packin’ Mama” and “Guitar Polka.”

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Number of weeks spent as #1: 6Texan Al Dexter helped popularize the honky-tonk genre with songs about a man who’s “lonely and blue,” losing his mind over a woman. Dexter was a regular feature on the Billboard Juke Box Folk Record charts in the ’40s, with other big hits like “Pistol Packin’ Mama” and “Guitar Polka.”