Top Songs of 1929


Rank All Time Rank Artist Song Genres
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