Top Vaudeville Blues Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
430
 Bessie Smith St. Louis Blues 1925
2
1092
 Mamie Smith Crazy Blues 1920
3
1169
 Ma Rainey See See Rider Blues 1925
4
1764
 Bessie Smith Downhearted Blues Piano Blues 1923
5
1840
 Bessie Smith Empty Bed Blues Piano Blues 1928
6
2108
 Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Soul Jazz, Vocal Jazz 1964
7
4831
 Bertha "Chippie" Hill Trouble in Mind 1926
8
5246
 Bessie Smith Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out Vocal Jazz 1929
9
5408
 Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers Lovesick Blues Vocal Jazz 1928
10
6118
 Bessie Smith Back-Water Blues 1927
11
6223
 Bessie Smith T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do Piano Blues 1923
12
7374
 Clarence Williams' Blue Five Wild Cat Blues Jazz 1923
13
7541
 Bessie Smith Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl Piano Blues 1931
14
9280
 Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band Prove It on Me Blues Jug Band 1928

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Trixie Smith My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll) 1922
Bessie Smith Gimmie a Pigfoot Vocal Jazz 1934
Bessie Smith Careless Love Blues 1925
Bessie Smith Alexander's Ragtime Band 1927
Bessie Smith Young Woman's Blues Vocal Jazz 1927
Lil Green Why Don't You Do Right? Vocal Jazz 1941