Acclaimed Music

**Top Songs of the 1920s**
Rank▼	All Time	Rank▼		Artist▼	Song▼	Genres▼	Year▼
1	349	Louis Armstrong	West End Blues	Dixieland	1928
2	430	Bessie Smith	St. Louis Blues	Vaudeville Blues	1925
3	568	Jimmie Rodgers	Blue Yodel (T for Texas)	Country Yodeling	1928
4	883	Fats Waller	Ain't Misbehavin'	Stride	1929
5	935	The Carter Family	Wildwood Flower	Appalachian Folk Music, Traditional Country	1929
6	989	Blind Willie Johnson	Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground	Acoustic Texas Blues	1927
7	1059	Al Jolson	Swanee	Vaudeville	1920
8	1073	Charley Patton	Pony Blues	Delta Blues	1929
9	1086	Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra with George Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue	Big Band, Modern Classical	1924
10	1092	Mamie Smith	Crazy Blues	Vaudeville Blues	1920
11	1099	Duke Ellington	Black and Tan Fantasy	Big Band	1927
12	1124	Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke	Singin' the Blues	Dixieland	1927
13	1169	Ma Rainey	See See Rider Blues	Vaudeville Blues	1925
14	1244	Blind Willie McTell	Statesboro Blues	Piedmont Blues	1928
15	1466	Bix Beiderbecke	In a Mist	Dixieland	1927
16	1613	Clarence "Pine Top" Smith	Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	Boogie Woogie	1928
17	1677	James P. Johnson	Carolina Shout	Stride	1922
18	1740	Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra	Ol' Man River	Show Tunes, Spirituals, Standards	1928
19	1741	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Match Box Blues	Acoustic Texas Blues	1927
20	1764	Bessie Smith	Downhearted Blues	Piano Blues, Vaudeville Blues	1923
21	1840	Bessie Smith	Empty Bed Blues	Piano Blues, Vaudeville Blues	1928
22	1901	King Oliver & His Jazz Band	Dipper Mouth Blues	Dixieland	1923
23	1983	Hoagy Carmichael	Star Dust	Jazz, Standards	1927
24	2002	Eddie Cantor	Makin' Whoopee	Vaudeville	1929
25	2010	Blind Lemon Jefferson	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean	Acoustic Texas Blues	1928
26	2011	Paul Whiteman	Whispering	Big Band	1920
27	2019	Louis Armstrong	Potato Head Blues	Dixieland	1927
28	2074	Leroy Carr	How Long, How Long Blues	Piano Blues	1928
29	2137	The Carter Family	Keep on the Sunny Side	Appalachian Folk Music, Country Gospel	1928
30	2180	Mississippi John Hurt	Stack O' Lee Blues	Piedmont Blues	1928
31	2270	Louis Armstrong	Struttin' with Some Barbeque	Dixieland	1928
32	2330	Louis Armstrong	St. James Infirmary	Dixieland, Vocal Jazz	1928
33	2456	Fiddlin' John Carson	Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1923
34	2511	Blind Alfred Reed	How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1929
35	2604	Fanny Brice	My Man (From Ziegfield Follies of 1921)	Revue	1922
36	2646	Eck Robertson	Sally Gooden	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1922
37	2753	Louis Armstrong	St. Louis Blues	Dixieland, Vocal Jazz	1929
38	2763	Tampa Red & Georgia Tom	It's Tight Like That	Acoustic Chicago Blues	1928
39	2768	Al Jolson	My Mammy	Traditional Pop, Vaudeville	1928
40	2778	Jelly Roll Morton	King Porter Stomp	Stride	1924
41	2797	Meade Lux Lewis	Honky Tonk Train Blues	Boogie Woogie, Piano Blues	1929
42	2836	Joseph Falcon	Allons à Lafayette	Traditional Cajun	1928
43	2862	Fred and Adele Astaire	Fascinating Rhythm	Show Tunes, Traditional Pop	1926
44	2941	Jelly Roll Morton	Black Bottom Stomp	Big Band, Dixieland	1926
45	3155	Fats Waller	Handful of Keys	Stride	1929
46	3236	Duke Ellington	East St. Louis Toodle-oo	Dixieland	1926
47	3238	Gene Austin	My Blue Heaven	Traditional Pop	1927
48	3442	Vernon Dalhart	The Prisoner's Song	Traditional Country	1924
49	3638	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Black Snake Moan	Acoustic Texas Blues	1927
50	3798	Dock Boggs	Country Blues	Old-Time	1927
51	3922	Louis Armstrong	(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue	Vocal Jazz	1929
52	4323	Louis Armstrong	Ain't Misbehavin'	Vocal Jazz	1929
53	4368	Clarence "Tom" Ashley	The Coo Coo Bird	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1929
54	4572	Tommy Johnson	Cool Drink of Water Blues	Delta Blues	1928
55	4831	Bertha "Chippie" Hill	Trouble in Mind	Vaudeville Blues	1926
56	4833	Mississippi John Hurt	Frankie	Piedmont Blues	1928
57	4872	Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down	Old-Time	1925
58	5009	Helen Kane	I Wanna Be Loved By You	Standards	1928
59	5202	Jimmie Rodgers	In the Jailhouse Now	Country Yodeling	1928
60	5246	Bessie Smith	Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out	Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz	1929
61	5252	DeFord Bailey	Pan American Blues	Country Blues	1927
62	5257	Memphis Jug Band	Stealin' Stealin'	Jug Band	1929
63	5326	Mistinguett	Mon homme	Chanson r�aliste	1920
64	5344	Louis Armstrong	Heebie Jeebies	Dixieland	1926
65	5356	Mississippi John Hurt	Candy Man Blues	Piedmont Blues	1929
66	5357	Fletcher Henderson	Copenhagen	Big Band	1924
67	5408	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz	1928
68	5478	Ruth Etting	Love Me or Leave Me	Standards	1929
69	5542	Gene Austin	Bye Bye Blackbird	Traditional Pop	1926
70	5630	Isham Jones Orchestra	It Had to Be You	Big Band, Dixieland	1924
71	5657	Tommy Johnson	Big Road Blues	Delta Blues	1928
72	5750	Ory's Sunshine Orchestra	Ory's Creole Trombone	Dixieland	1922
73	5805	Jelly Roll Morton	Grandpa's Spells	Big Band	1923
74	5825	Blind Willie Johnson	Mother's Children Have a Hard Time	Acoustic Texas Blues	1928
75	5872	Louis Armstrong	I Can't Give You Anything But Love	Dixieland, Vocal Jazz	1929
76	5924	Jelly Roll Morton	Doctor Jazz-Stomp	Big Band	1927
77	5933	Richard "Rabbit" Brown	James Alley-Blues	Country Blues	1927
78	6006	Al Jolson	California, Here I Come	Show Tunes, Traditional Pop	1924
79	6113	Fletcher Henderson	The Stampede	Big Band	1926
80	6118	Bessie Smith	Back-Water Blues	Vaudeville Blues	1927
81	6174	Louis Armstrong	Tight Like This	Dixieland	1929
82	6184	Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman	The Titanic	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1925
83	6223	Bessie Smith	T Ain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do	Piano Blues, Vaudeville Blues	1923
84	6388	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band	Chimes Blues	Dixieland	1923
85	6411	New Orleans Rhythm Kings	Tin Roof Blues	Dixieland	1923
86	6474	Jimmie Rodgers	Waiting for a Train	Country Yodeling	1929
87	6484	Jelly Roll Morton	Kansas City Stomps	Dixieland	1929
88	6495	Jelly Roll Morton	The Pearls	Dixieland, Ragtime	1924
89	6542	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band	Canal Street Blues	Dixieland	1923
90	6609	Furry Lewis	Kassie Jones	Country Blues	1928
91	6723	Jelly Roll Morton	Dead Man Blues	Big Band, Dixieland	1926
92	6779	Berthe Sylva	Les Roses Blanches	Chanson	1926
93	6947	Louisiana Rhythm Kings	Basin Street Blues	Big Band	1929
94	6992	Earl Hines	Monday Date	Ragtime	1929
95	6999	Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra	South	Big Band	1925
96	7095	Ethel Waters	Dinah	Vocal Jazz	1925
97	7101	Clarence Williams' Blue Five	Cake Walking Babies from Home	Dixieland, Ragtime	1925
98	7115	Uncle Dave Macon	Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1924
99	7178	Frankie Trumbauer	I'm Coming Virginia	Big Band, Dixieland	1927
100	7290	Joe Venuti	Stringin' the Blues	Swing	1926
101	7299	Pawlo Humeniuk	Tanec Pid Werbamy/Dance Under the Willows	Ukranian Folk Music	1926
102	7336	The Carter Family	Single Girl, Married Girl	Appalachian Folk Music, Traditional Country	1927
103	7374	Clarence Williams' Blue Five	Wild Cat Blues	Jazz, Vaudeville Blues	1923
104	7398	Duke Ellington	Creole Love Call	Dixieland	1928
105	7505	Duke Ellington	The Mooche	Big Band, Swing	1928
106	7519	Victor Symphony Orchestra with George Gershwin	An American in Paris	Tone Poem	1929
107	7567	Harry McClintock	The Big Rock Candy Mountains	Traditional Country	1928
108	7775	Jelly Roll Morton	Mr. Jelly Lord	Ragtime	1924
109	7831	Will Fyffe	I Belong to Glasgow	Comedy	1920
110	8031	Ethel Waters	Am I Blue?	Blues, Vocal Jazz	1929
111	8306	Fanny Brice	Second Hand Rose	Revue	1922
112	8650	Associated Glee Clubs of America	Adeste Fideles	Choral, Christmas Music	1925
113	8777	Arthur Gibbs & His Gang	Charleston	Swing	1924
114	8918	Al Jolson	April Showers	Traditional Pop	1921
115	8942	Trovadores Regionales	Gregorio Cortez	Corrido	1929
116	9193	Rita Montaner	El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)	Rhumba, Son Cubano	1928
117	9213	Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers	Soldier's Joy	Old-Time	1929
118	9270	Michael Coleman	The Boys of the Lough	Irish Folk Music	1922
119	9271	Michael Coleman	The Humours of Ennistymon	Irish Folk Music	1922
120	9280	Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band	Prove It on Me Blues	Jug Band, Vaudeville Blues	1928
121	9366	Eddie Cantor	Yes! We Have No Bananas	Vaudeville	1922
122	9529	Golden Gate Orchestra	Charleston	Big Band	1925
123	9540	Trio Matamoros	Son de la Loma	Bolero son, Trova	1928
124	9555	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1928
125	9606	Sam Mayo	Things Are Worse in Russia	Music Hall	1922
126	9608	Louis Armstrong	Hotter Than That	Dixieland	1928
127	9727	Handy's Memphis Blues Band	St. Louis Blues	Blues	1922
128	9821	Billy Jones	Yes We Have No Bananas	Novelty	1923
129	9939	Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra	Dardanella	Big Band, Classical Waltz, Dixieland	1920
130	9942	Vernon Dalhart	The Wreck of the Old 97	Traditional Country	1924
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
		Trixie Smith	My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)	Vaudeville Blues	1922
		King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band	Snake Rag	Dixieland	1923
		Jelly Roll Morton	Jelly Roll Blues	Ragtime	1924
		Ethel Waters	Sweet Georgia Brown	Vocal Jazz	1925
		Fletcher Henderson	Whiteman Stomp	Dixieland	1927
		Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang	Wild Cat	Swing	1927
		Louis Armstrong with Jack Teagarden	Knockin' a Jug	Jazz	1929
		Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers	Sail Away Ladies	Old-Time	1927
		Bascom Lamar Lunsford	(Good Old) Mountain Dew	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1928
		Ben Bernie	Sweet Georgia Brown	Big Band	1925
		Louis Armstrong	Basin Street Blues	Jazz	1929
		Al Jolson	Sonny Boy	Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz	1928
		King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band	Froggie Moore	Dixieland	1923
		Gertrude Lawrence	Someone to Watch over Me	Show Tunes, Traditional Pop	1926
		Paul Whiteman	Valencia ( A Song of Spain)	Big Band	1926
		Louis Armstrong	Cornet Shop Suey	Dixieland	1926
		Lonnie Johnson	Careless Love Blues	Country Blues	1928
		Sylvester Weaver	Guitar Rag	Acoustic Blues	1923
		Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Country Blues, Gospel	1928
		Fletcher Henderson	Sugar Foot Stomp	Big Band, Dixieland	1925
		Ted Lewis	When My Baby Smiles at Me	Ragtime	1920
		Bix Beiderbecke	The Jazz Me Blues	Dixieland	1927
		Fletcher Henderson	Variety Stomp	Big Band	1927
		Dock Boggs	Sugar Baby	Appalachian Folk Music, Old-Time	1927
		Bessie Smith	Careless Love Blues	Vaudeville Blues	1925
		Maurice Chevalier	Dans la vie faut pas s'en faire	Chanson	1921
		Henry Thomas	John Henry	Country Blues	1927
		Jelly Roll Morton	Wolverine Blues (Joys)	Stride	1923
		The Carter Family	I'm Thinking To-Night of My Blue Eyes	Appalachian Folk Music, Traditional Country	1929
		Bessie Smith	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Vaudeville Blues	1927
		Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang	Doin' Things	Swing	1928
		James P. Johnson	Keep Off the Grass	Stride	1922
		Paul Whiteman	Three O'Clock in the Morning	Big Band	1922
		Isham Jones Orchestra	I'll See You in My Dreams	Big Band	1925
		Louis Armstrong	Wild Man Blues	Dixieland	1927
		Frankie Trumbauer	Riverboat Shuffle	Big Band, Swing	1927
		Charley Patton	A Spoonful Blues	Delta Blues	1929
		Hambone Willie Newbern	Roll and Tumble Blues	Country Blues	1929
		Bessie Smith	Young Woman's Blues	Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz	1927
		Louis Armstrong	Muggles	Jazz	1929
		Eddie Cantor	If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)	Vaudeville	1925
		Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees	Deep Night	Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz	1929
		Blind Lemon Jefferson	Jack O'Diamond Blues	Acoustic Texas Blues	1926
		Sippie Wallace	I'm a Mighty Tight Woman	Blues	1927