Top Ragtime Songs


Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
883
Fats Waller Ain't Misbehavin' Stride 1929
2
1677
James P. Johnson Carolina Shout Stride 1922
3
2455
Original Dixieland Jazz Band Tiger Rag Dixieland 1918
4
2778
Jelly Roll Morton King Porter Stomp Stride 1924
5
2966
Fats Waller Honeysuckle Rose Stride Vocal Jazz 1934
6
3155
Fats Waller Handful of Keys Stride 1929
7
3197
Erroll Garner Misty Stride Bebop 1954
8
4025
Art Tatum Tea for Two Stride 1933
9
5003
Jim Europe's 369th Infantry "Hellfighters" Band Memphis Blues 1919
10
5340
Art Tatum Tiger Rag Stride 1933
11
5658
Mary Lou Williams Night Life Stride 1930
12
6495
Jelly Roll Morton The Pearls Dixieland 1924
13
6992
Earl Hines Monday Date 1929
14
7101
Clarence Williams' Blue Five Cake Walking Babies from Home Dixieland 1925
15
7549
Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan Alexander's Ragtime Band 1911
16
7580
Vess L. Ossman Honolulu Cake Walk Cakewalk 1899
17
7644
Fats Waller Viper's Drag 1935
18
7775
Jelly Roll Morton Mr. Jelly Lord 1924
19
7946
Erroll Garner I'll Remember April Stride Bebop 1956
20
8476
Europe's Society Orchestra Castle House Rag (Castles in Europe) 1914
21
9559
Vess L. Ossman A Bunch of Rags 1898
22
9707
Ossman-Dudley Trio St. Louis Tickle 1906
23
9749
U.S. Marine Band Maple Leaf Rag 1910
24
9770
Fats Waller Two Sleepy People Stride Vocal Jazz 1938

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Arthur Collins Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? 1902
Fred Van Eps Whipped Cream 1913
Jelly Roll Morton Jelly Roll Blues 1924
Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra Twelfth Street Rag Dixieland 1948
Art Tatum Humoresque Stride 1940
Vess L. Ossman Smoky Mokes 1899
Ted Lewis When My Baby Smiles at Me 1920
Thelonious Monk I Should Care Stride Hard Bop, Vocal Jazz 1949
Jelly Roll Morton Wolverine Blues (Joys) Stride 1923
Original Dixieland Jazz Band Sensation Rag Dixieland 1918
James P. Johnson Keep Off the Grass Stride 1922
Cecil Gant I Wonder Stride Boogie Woogie, Piano Blues 1944
Lou Reed New York Telephone Conversation Novelty Piano Novelty, Singer/Songwriter, Vaudeville 1972