Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from the 1920s

The Top Songs from the 1920s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	357	Louis Armstrong	West End Blues	1928
2	450	Jimmie Rodgers	Blue Yodel (T for Texas)	1928
3	685	The Carter Family	Wildwood Flower	1929
4	900	Bessie Smith	St. Louis Blues	1925
5	950	Bessie Smith	Downhearted Blues	1923
6	974	George Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue	1924
7	993	Blind Willie Johnson	Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground	1927
8	1009	The Carter Family	Keep on the Sunny Side	1928
9	1105	Charley Patton	Pony Blues	1929
10	1211	Eck Robertson	Sally Gooden	1922
11	1248	Al Jolson	My Mammy	1928
12	1289	Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals	Star Dust	1927
13	1396	Fiddlin' John Carson	Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane	1923
14	1398	Fats Waller	Ain't Misbehavin'	1929
15	1591	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Matchbox Blues	1927
16	1634	Blind Willie McTell	Statesboro Blues	1928
17	1677	Mississippi John Hurt	Stack O' Lee Blues	1928
18	1904	Vernon Dalhart	The Prisoner's Song	1925
19	2507	Leroy Carr	How Long, How Long Blues	1928
20	2593	Clarence "Tom" Ashley	The Coo Coo Bird	1929
21	2665	Blind Lemon Jefferson	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	1928
22	2705	Bessie Smith	Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out	1929
23	2719	Fats Waller	Handful of Keys	1929
24	2791	Isham Jones Orchestra	It Had to Be You	1924
25	2808	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	1928
26	2811	Blind Alfred Reed	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live	1929
27	2852	Eddie Cantor	Makin' Whoopee	1928
28	2855	Mamie Smith	Crazy Blues	1920
29	2856	Ma Rainey	See See Rider Blues	1925
30	2857	Bix Beiderbecke	In a Mist	1927
31	2858	Clarence "Pine Top" Smith	Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	1928
32	2908	Uncle Dave Macon	Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy	1924
33	2909	Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers	Don�t Let Your Deal Go Down	1925
34	2910	DeFord Bailey	Pan American Blues	1927
35	2994	Helen Kane	I Wanna Be Loved By You	1928
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Duke Ellington	Black and Tan Fantasy	1927
		Jimmie Rodgers	In the Jailhouse Now	1928
		Dock Boggs	Country Blues	1927
		Bessie Smith	'T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do	1923
		Jelly Roll Morton	King Porter Stomp	1924
		Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke	Singin' the Blues	1927
		Gene Austin	Bye Bye Blackbird	1926
		Fanny Brice	My Man (From Ziegfield Follies of 1921)	1922
		Bessie Smith	Empty Bed Blues	1928
		King Oliver & His Jazz Band	Dipper Mouth Blues	1923
		Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Whispering	1920