Top Songs of 1928
Rank
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All Time
Rank
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Artist
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Song
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Genres
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1
349
Louis Armstrong
West End Blues
Dixieland
2
568
Jimmie Rodgers
Blue Yodel (T for Texas)
Country Yodeling
3
1244
Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
Piedmont Blues
4
1613
Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
Boogie Woogie
5
1740
Paul Robeson with Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
Ol' Man River
Show Tunes
,
Spirituals
,
Standards
6
1840
Bessie Smith
Empty Bed Blues
Piano Blues
,
Vaudeville Blues
7
2010
Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Acoustic Texas Blues
8
2074
Leroy Carr
How Long, How Long Blues
Piano Blues
9
2137
The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Country Gospel
10
2180
Mississippi John Hurt
Stack O' Lee Blues
Piedmont Blues
11
2270
Louis Armstrong
Struttin' with Some Barbeque
Dixieland
12
2330
Louis Armstrong
St. James Infirmary
Dixieland
,
Vocal Jazz
13
2763
Tampa Red & Georgia Tom
It's Tight Like That
Acoustic Chicago Blues
14
2768
Al Jolson
My Mammy
Traditional Pop
,
Vaudeville
15
2836
Joseph Falcon
Allons à Lafayette
Traditional Cajun
16
4572
Tommy Johnson
Cool Drink of Water Blues
Delta Blues
17
4833
Mississippi John Hurt
Frankie
Piedmont Blues
18
5009
Helen Kane
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Standards
19
5202
Jimmie Rodgers
In the Jailhouse Now
Country Yodeling
20
5408
Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
Lovesick Blues
Vaudeville Blues
,
Vocal Jazz
21
5657
Tommy Johnson
Big Road Blues
Delta Blues
22
5825
Blind Willie Johnson
Mother's Children Have a Hard Time
Acoustic Texas Blues
23
6609
Furry Lewis
Kassie Jones
Country Blues
24
7398
Duke Ellington
Creole Love Call
Dixieland
25
7505
Duke Ellington
The Mooche
Big Band
,
Swing
26
7567
Harry McClintock
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
Traditional Country
27
9193
Rita Montaner
El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
Rhumba
,
Son Cubano
28
9280
Ma Rainey & Her Tub Jug Washboard Band
Prove It on Me Blues
Jug Band
,
Vaudeville Blues
29
9540
Trio Matamoros
Son de la Loma
Bolero son
,
Trova
30
9555
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Old-Time
31
9608
Louis Armstrong
Hotter Than That
Dixieland
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford
(Good Old) Mountain Dew
Appalachian Folk Music
,
Old-Time
Al Jolson
Sonny Boy
Film Soundtrack
,
Traditional Pop
,
Vocal Jazz
Lonnie Johnson
Careless Love Blues
Country Blues
Washington Phillips
Denomination Blues
Country Blues
,
Gospel
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang
Doin' Things
Swing