Top Songs of 1947


Rank All Time Rank Artist Song Genres
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