Top Songs of 1929
Rank
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All Time
Rank
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Artist
▼
Song
▼
Genres
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1
883
Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehavin'
Stride
2
935
The Carter Family
Wildwood Flower
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Traditional Country
3
1073
Charley Patton
Pony Blues
Delta Blues
4
2002
Eddie Cantor
Makin' Whoopee
Vaudeville
5
2511
Blind Alfred Reed
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Old-Time
6
2753
Louis Armstrong
St. Louis Blues
Dixieland
,
Vocal Jazz
7
2797
Meade Lux Lewis
Honky Tonk Train Blues
Boogie Woogie
,
Piano Blues
8
3155
Fats Waller
Handful of Keys
Stride
9
3922
Louis Armstrong
(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue
Vocal Jazz
10
4323
Louis Armstrong
Ain't Misbehavin'
Vocal Jazz
11
4368
Clarence "Tom" Ashley
The Coo Coo Bird
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Old-Time
12
5246
Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
Vaudeville Blues
,
Vocal Jazz
13
5257
Memphis Jug Band
Stealin' Stealin'
Jug Band
14
5356
Mississippi John Hurt
Candy Man Blues
Piedmont Blues
15
5478
Ruth Etting
Love Me or Leave Me
Standards
16
5872
Louis Armstrong
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Dixieland
,
Vocal Jazz
17
6174
Louis Armstrong
Tight Like This
Dixieland
18
6474
Jimmie Rodgers
Waiting for a Train
Country Yodeling
19
6484
Jelly Roll Morton
Kansas City Stomps
Dixieland
20
6947
Louisiana Rhythm Kings
Basin Street Blues
Big Band
21
6992
Earl Hines
Monday Date
Ragtime
22
7519
Victor Symphony Orchestra with George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Tone Poem
23
8031
Ethel Waters
Am I Blue?
Blues
,
Vocal Jazz
24
8942
Trovadores Regionales
Gregorio Cortez
Corrido
25
9213
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers
Soldier's Joy
Old-Time
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Louis Armstrong with Jack Teagarden
Knockin' a Jug
Jazz
Louis Armstrong
Basin Street Blues
Jazz
The Carter Family
I'm Thinking To-Night of My Blue Eyes
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Traditional Country
Charley Patton
A Spoonful Blues
Delta Blues
Hambone Willie Newbern
Roll and Tumble Blues
Country Blues
Louis Armstrong
Muggles
Jazz
Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees
Deep Night
Traditional Pop
,
Vocal Jazz