Top Songs of 1947
Rank
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All Time
Rank
▼
Artist
▼
Song
▼
Genres
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1
619
Mahalia Jackson
Move On Up a Little Higher
Gospel
2
648
Bill Monroe
Blue Moon of Kentucky
Bluegrass
3
837
T-Bone Walker
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)
Electric Texas Blues
4
1078
Dizzy Gillespie
Manteca
Afro-Cuban Jazz
,
Big Band
5
1872
Nat King Cole
Nature Boy
Standards
,
Vocal Jazz
6
2323
Hank Williams
Move It On Over
Honky Tonk
7
2721
Roy Brown
Good Rockin' Tonight
Jump-Blues
,
Rhythm & Blues
8
2821
Sarah Vaughan
Tenderly
Traditional Pop
,
Vocal Jazz
9
3670
Francis Craig Orchestra
Near You
Traditional Pop
10
4009
Ella Fitzgerald
Oh, Lady Be Good!
Vocal Jazz
11
4021
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Novelty
,
Talking Blues
,
Western Swing
12
4247
Luiz Gonzaga
Asa Branca
Baião
,
Marchinha
13
4888
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Merry Christmas, Baby
Christmas Music
,
Piano Blues
14
5436
The Harmonicats
Peg O' My Heart
Rhythm & Blues
,
Space Age Pop
,
Traditional Pop
15
5709
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
That's All Right
Electric Blues
,
Rhythm & Blues
16
5956
Merle Travis
Dark As a Dungeon
Traditional Country
17
6658
Charlie Parker
Relaxing at Camarillo
Bebop
18
6964
Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks
Tramp on the Street
Traditional Country
19
7547
Dizzy Gillespie
Things to Come
Big Band
20
8402
Charles Trenet
Douce France
Chanson
21
8717
The Stanley Brothers
Little Maggie
Bluegrass
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Atmosphere
Bebop
Vaughn Monroe
Ballerina
Big Band
Ray Noble & His Orchestra
Linda
Big Band
Merle Travis
Sixteen Tons
Traditional Country
Lightnin' Hopkins
Short Haired Woman
Acoustic Texas Blues
Line Renaud
Ma cabane au Canada
Chanson
Frank Sinatra
All the Things You Are
Vocal Jazz