Top Songs of the 1940s
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Song▼ Genres▼ Year▼
1
130
 Hank Williams I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Traditional Country 1949
2
305
 Édith Piaf La Vie en rose Chanson 1945
3
336
 Bing Crosby White Christmas Christmas Music, Traditional Pop 1942
4
389
 Thelonious Monk 'Round Midnight Bebop 1948
5
392
 John Lee Hooker Boogie Chillen' Electric Blues 1948
6
604
 Charlie Parker Koko Bebop 1945
7
619
 Mahalia Jackson Move On Up a Little Higher Gospel 1947
8
648
 Bill Monroe Blue Moon of Kentucky Bluegrass 1947
9
760
 Duke Ellington Take the "A" Train Big Band, Swing 1941
10
771
 Billie Holiday God Bless the Child Vocal Jazz 1941
11
837
 T-Bone Walker Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad) Electric Texas Blues 1947
12
893
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?) Jump-Blues 1945
13
953
 Lionel Hampton Flying Home Big Band 1942
14
994
 Quintette du Hot Club de France avec Alix Combelle Nuages Jazz manouche 1940
15
1066
 Duke Ellington Black, Brown and Beige/Come Sunday Big Band 1943
16
1078
 Dizzy Gillespie Manteca Afro-Cuban Jazz, Big Band 1947
17
1173
 Les Brown & His Orchestra Sentimental Journey Big Band, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1944
18
1174
 Lena Horne Stormy Weather Vocal Jazz 1942
19
1225
 Nat King Cole (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 Vocal Jazz 1946
20
1376
 Charles Trenet La Mer Chanson 1946
21
1423
 Hank Williams Lovesick Blues Traditional Country 1949
22
1531
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Choo Choo Ch'Boogie Jump-Blues, Swing 1946
23
1695
 Cliff Edwards When You Wish Upon a Star Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop 1940
24
1696
 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Foggy Mountain Breakdown Bluegrass 1949
25
1751
 The Orioles It's Too Soon to Know Doo-Wop 1948
26
1765
 Benny Goodman Orchestra feat. Charlie Christian Solo Flight Big Band, Swing 1943
27
1816
 Yves Montand Les Feuilles mortes Chanson 1949
28
1825
 Jimmie Davis You Are My Sunshine Traditional Country 1940
29
1842
 Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers Driftin' Blues Piano Blues 1945
30
1872
 Nat King Cole Nature Boy Standards, Vocal Jazz 1947
31
1881
 Stan Kenton Artistry in Rhythm Big Band 1945
32
1896
 Nat King Cole The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) Christmas Music, Traditional Pop 1946
33
1981
 Dizzy Gillespie A Night in Tunisia Bebop 1946
34
2004
 Spike Jones Der Fuehrer's Face Musical Comedy, Novelty 1942
35
2005
 Bill Monroe Mule Skinner Blues Bluegrass, Country Yodeling 1940
36
2014
 The Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Film Soundtrack, Swing, Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1941
37
2036
 Duke Ellington Ko-Ko Big Band, Swing 1940
38
2058
 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys New San Antonio Rose Western Swing 1940
39
2078
 Wynonie Harris Good Rockin' Tonight Jump-Blues, Rock & Roll 1948
40
2110
 Charlie Parker Ornithology Bebop 1946
41
2203
 Charlie Parker Parker's Mood Bebop 1948
42
2264
 Big Bill Broonzy Key to the Highway Acoustic Blues 1941
43
2320
 Hank Williams Lost Highway Honky Tonk 1949
44
2323
 Hank Williams Move It On Over Honky Tonk 1947
45
2411
 Artie Shaw Star Dust Big Band, Swing 1940
46
2480
 Dizzy Gillespie Groovin' High Bebop 1945
47
2515
 Ernest Tubb Walking the Floor Over You Honky Tonk 1941
48
2516
 Billie Holiday The Man I Love Standards, Vocal Jazz 1940
49
2529
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Let the Good Times Roll Jump-Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1946
50
2559
 The Mills Brothers Paper Doll Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1942
51
2577
 Dooley Wilson As Time Goes By Traditional Pop 1942
52
2704
 Nat King Cole Straighten Up and Fly Right Standards, Vocal Jazz 1944
53
2721
 Roy Brown Good Rockin' Tonight Jump-Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1947
54
2740
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Saturday Night Fish Fry Jump-Blues, New Orleans R&B 1949
55
2821
 Sarah Vaughan Tenderly Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1947
56
2832
 Woody Herman Four Brothers Big Band 1948
57
2939
 Judy Garland & Gene Kelly For Me and My Gal Traditional Pop 1942
58
3044
 Vaughn Monroe (Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) Cowboy 1949
59
3045
 Bing Crosby Swinging on a Star Standards 1944
60
3053
 Harry James & His Orchestra feat. Frank Sinatra All or Nothing at All Standards, Vocal Jazz 1940
61
3178
 Nat King Cole (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons Traditional Pop 1946
62
3189
 Muddy Waters I Can't Be Satisfied Chicago Blues 1948
63
3210
 Thelonious Monk Misterioso Bebop 1949
64
3250
 Charlie Parker Now's the Time Bebop 1946
65
3290
 Amos Milburn Chicken-Shack Boogie Rhythm & Blues 1948
66
3378
 Big Maceo Worried Life Blues Acoustic Chicago Blues, Piano Blues 1941
67
3453
 Gene Autry Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas Music, Western Swing 1949
68
3478
 Harry Choates Jole Blon Traditional Cajun 1946
69
3531
 Spike Jones and His City Slickers Cocktails for Two Musical Comedy, Novelty 1945
70
3580
 Dizzy Gillespie Salt Peanuts Bebop 1945
71
3640
 Woody Herman Early Autumn Big Band, Dixieland, Swing 1949
72
3670
 Francis Craig Orchestra Near You Traditional Pop 1947
73
3742
 Billie Holiday Body and Soul Vocal Jazz 1940
74
3757
 Benny Goodman & His Orchestra feat. Charlie Christian Seven Come Eleven Big Band, Swing 1940
75
3828
 Charlie Christian Swing to Bop [Topsy] Big Band, Swing 1941
76
3852
 Betty Hutton It Had to Be You Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1944
77
3862
 Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday Vocal Jazz 1941
78
3885
 Artie Shaw Frenesi Swing 1940
79
3909
 Duke Ellington Cotton Tail Big Band, Swing 1940
80
3927
 Charlie Parker A Night in Tunisia Bebop 1946
81
3969
 Joe Liggins The Honeydripper Jump-Blues 1945
82
3975
 Miles Davis Boplicity Cool Jazz 1949
83
3989
 Charles Trenet Que reste-t-il de nos amours? Chanson 1942
84
4009
 Ella Fitzgerald Oh, Lady Be Good! Vocal Jazz 1947
85
4021
 Tex Williams & His Western Caravan Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) Novelty, Talking Blues, Western Swing 1947
86
4026
 Bing Crosby I'll Be Seeing You Traditional Pop 1944
87
4066
 Dizzy Gillespie Hot House Bebop 1945
88
4126
 Benny Goodman feat. Charlie Christian Good Enough to Keep/Air Mail Special Swing 1941
89
4137
 Duke Ellington Harlem Air-Shaft Big Band 1940
90
4230
 Tommy Dorsey Opus No. 1 Swing 1944
91
4247
 Luiz Gonzaga Asa Branca Baião, Marchinha 1947
92
4436
 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys Take Me Back to Tulsa Western Swing 1941
93
4502
 Gene Autry Deep in the Heart of Texas Cowboy 1942
94
4504
 Anton Karas Harry Lime Theme Film Soundtrack 1949
95
4565
 The Sons of the Pioneers Cool Water Cowboy 1941
96
4576
 Frank Sinatra Someone to Watch Over Me Vocal Jazz 1946
97
4583
 The Ink Spots The Gypsy Vocal Group 1946
98
4590
 Duke Ellington Concerto for Cootie Big Band 1940
99
4788
 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Don't Fence Me In Traditional Pop 1944
100
4860
 Billie Holiday Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) Vocal Jazz 1945
101
4888
 Johnny Moore's Three Blazers Merry Christmas, Baby Christmas Music, Piano Blues 1947
102
4981
 Lead Belly Rock Island Line (Railroad Song) American Folk Music, Contemporary Folk 1942
103
5119
 Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra & The Pied Pipers I'll Never Smile Again Traditional Pop 1940
104
5266
 Perry Como Till the End of Time Traditional Pop 1945
105
5322
 Charlie Parker Lover Man Bebop 1946
106
5436
 The Harmonicats Peg O' My Heart Rhythm & Blues, Space Age Pop, Traditional Pop 1947
107
5461
 Coleman Hawkins The Man I Love Bebop 1944
108
5625
 Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys Bouquet of Roses Country 1948
109
5666
 Charlie Parker Yardbird Suite Bebop 1946
110
5709
 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup That's All Right Electric Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1947
111
5742
 Memphis Minnie Me and My Chauffeur Blues Country Blues 1941
112
5773
 Frank Sinatra Night and Day Standards, Vocal Jazz 1942
113
5796
 Charlie Parker Embraceable You Bebop 1948
114
5890
 Kansas City Six [Lester Young] The Prez Got Rhythm/I Got Rhythm Bebop 1944
115
5907
 Arthur Smith Guitar Boogie Boogie Woogie, Country Boogie 1945
116
5916
 Johnny Mercer Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Vocal Jazz 1944
117
5928
 Glenn Miller A String of Pearls Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1941
118
5956
 Merle Travis Dark As a Dungeon Traditional Country 1947
119
5974
 Sister Rosetta Tharpe Strange Things Happening Every Day Traditional Black Gospel 1945
120
6012
 Eddy Arnold & His Guitar The Cattle Call Country Yodeling 1945
121
6058
 Glenn Miller Tuxedo Junction Big Band, Swing 1940
122
6103
 Glenn Miller Chattanooga Choo Choo Big Band, Swing, Vocal Jazz 1941
123
6127
 Marlene Dietrich Lili Marlene Chanson réaliste, Schlager 1945
124
6275
 Xavier Cugat Brazil Samba-exaltação 1942
125
6308
 Hank Williams I Saw the Light Country Gospel 1948
126
6312
 The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1944
127
6341
 Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers Billie's Bounce Bebop 1946
128
6389
 King Cole Trio Sweet Lorraine Vocal Jazz 1941
129
6420
 Johnny Otis Harlem Nocturne Swing 1945
130
6450
 The Andrews Sisters Rum and Coca-Cola Calypso, Vocal Group 1944
131
6490
 St. Louis Jimmy Oden Going Down Slow Piano Blues 1941
132
6514
 Robert Petway Catfish Blues Delta Blues 1941
133
6539
 Glenn Miller That Old Black Magic Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1943
134
6540
 Judy Garland The Trolley Song Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop 1944
135
6552
 Harry James & His Orchestra Sleepy Lagoon Big Band 1942
136
6553
 Coleman Hawkins Picasso Bebop 1949
137
6658
 Charlie Parker Relaxing at Camarillo Bebop 1947
138
6686
 Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Jazz Men Blue Horizon Dixieland 1945
139
6699
 Concha Piquer Tatuaje Copla 1941
140
6755
 Sidney Bechet Blues in Thirds Dixieland 1940
141
6767
 Lester Young These Foolish Things Bebop, Swing 1945
142
6841
 The Delmore Brothers Blues Stay Away from Me Bluegrass, Close Harmony 1949
143
6860
 Lee Konitz & Lennie Tristano Subconscious-Lee Cool Jazz 1949
144
6932
 Lucienne Delyle Mon amant de Saint-Jean Chanson 1942
145
6964
 Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks Tramp on the Street Traditional Country 1947
146
6991
 Chuck Wagon Gang I'll Fly Away Country Gospel 1949
147
7001
 Ted Daffan's Texans Born to Lose Western Swing 1943
148
7036
 Tino Rossi Petit papa Noël Chanson, Christmas Music 1946
149
7047
 Duke Ellington Sepia Panorama Big Band 1940
150
7104
 Miles Davis Israel Cool Jazz 1949
151
7210
 Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys It's Mighty Dark to Travel Bluegrass 1948
152
7287
 Al Dexter Pistol Packin' Mama Honky Tonk, Western Swing 1943
153
7293
 Duke Ellington I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1941
154
7329
 Woody Herman Apple Honey Big Band 1945
155
7345
 Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Pistol Packin' Mama Traditional Pop 1944
156
7350
 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan Baby, It's Cold Outside Vocal Jazz 1949
157
7444
 Spike Jones and His City Slickers All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) Christmas Music, Musical Comedy, Novelty 1948
158
7455
 Édith Piaf L'accordéoniste Chanson 1940
159
7504
 Erskine Hawkins After Hours Jazz 1940
160
7547
 Dizzy Gillespie Things to Come Big Band 1947
161
7814
 Dizzy Gillespie Cubana Be / Cubana Bop Afro-Cuban Jazz 1949
162
7832
 Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray The Chase Bebop 1948
163
7881
 The Mills Brothers You Always Hurt the One You Love Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1944
164
7887
 Frank Yankovic Orchestra Just Because Polka Polka 1948
165
7937
 The Delmore Brothers Freight Train Boogie Close Harmony, Country Boogie 1946
166
8033
 Miles Davis Jeru Cool Jazz 1949
167
8043
 Woody Herman Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) Big Band, Swing 1941
168
8181
 Ella Fitzgerald How High the Moon Vocal Jazz 1948
169
8189
 Doris Day It's Magic Traditional Pop 1948
170
8309
 The Ink Spots Don't Get Around Much Anymore Vocal Group 1943
171
8320
 Woody Guthrie Tom Joad American Folk Music, Contemporary Folk 1940
172
8376
 The King Cole Trio Embraceable You Vocal Jazz 1944
173
8396
 Ivory Joe Hunter I Almost Lost My Mind Rhythm & Blues, Traditional Pop 1949
174
8402
 Charles Trenet Douce France Chanson 1947
175
8453
 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Ration Blues Blues 1943
176
8516
 Benny Goodman Sextet feat. Charlie Christian Breakfast Feud Big Band 1941
177
8640
 The Dixie Hummingbirds Amazing Graze Traditional Black Gospel 1946
178
8646
 Floyd Tillman Slipping Around Country 1949
179
8671
 Woody Herman Laura Big Band 1945
180
8703
 The Pied Pipers Dream Vocal Group 1945
181
8717
 The Stanley Brothers Little Maggie Bluegrass 1947
182
8768
 Dinah Washington Baby Get Lost Vocal Jazz 1949
183
8785
 Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra (vocals Wynonie Harris) Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well Jump-Blues, Swing 1945
184
8851
 Germaine Sablon Le Chant des partisans Chanson 1943
185
8864
 The Mills Brothers Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You) Vocal Group 1949
186
8879
 Peggy Lee Mañana (Is Soon Enough for Me) Traditional Pop 1948
187
8883
 Art Mooney & His Orchestra I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover Chachachá 1948
188
8919
 The Southern Sons Lift Every Voice and Sing Gospel, Vocal Group 1942
189
8943
 Al Jolson Anniversary Song Traditional Pop 1946
190
8955
 Vaughn Monroe There! I've Said It Again Standards 1945
191
9012
 Johnny Mercer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Vocal Jazz 1946
192
9017
 Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans Oklahoma Hills Cowboy 1945
193
9050
 Billie Holiday Solitude Vocal Jazz 1941
194
9063
 Iry LeJeune Love Bridge Waltz Cajun 1948
195
9107
 Doris Day and Buddy Clark Love Somebody Traditional Pop 1948
196
9109
 Frankie Carle & His Orchestra Rumors Are Flying Traditional Pop 1946
197
9110
 Hoagy Carmichael Ole Buttermilk Sky Traditional Pop 1946
198
9126
 The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald I'm Making Believe Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1944
199
9127
 Frankie Laine That Lucky Old Sun Traditional Pop 1949
200
9128
 Russ Morgan & His Orchestra Cruising Down the River Easy Listening, Traditional Pop 1949
201
9129
 Vic Damone You're Breaking My Heart Traditional Pop 1949
202
9205
 Thelonious Monk Off Minor Bebop 1948
203
9348
 Woody Guthrie Pastures of Plenty Contemporary Folk 1946
204
9494
 Duke Ellington Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore) Big Band 1940
205
9533
 Paul Robeson Ballad for Americans Traditional Pop 1940
206
9621
 Ezio Pinza Some Enchanted Evening Show Tunes, Traditional Pop 1949
207
9729
 Glenn Miller (I've Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1942
208
9794
 Duke Ellington Main Stem Big Band 1944
209
9846
 Harry James & His Orchestra You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It) Big Band, Standards, Vocal Jazz 1941
210
9870
 Russ Morgan & His Orchestra So Tired Traditional Pop 1948
211
9880
 Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys Wreck on the Highway Traditional Country 1942
212
9910
 Jo Stafford&Gordon MacRae "A" You're Adorable Traditional Pop 1949
213
9916
 David Rose Holiday for Strings Holiday Music 1942
214
9935
 Les Brown & His Orchestra I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Big Band 1948
215
9943
 Francis Lemarque À Paris Chanson à texte 1949
216
9962
 Thelonious Monk Thelonious Bebop 1948
217
9971
 Wynonie Harris All She Wants to Do Is Rock Jump-Blues 1949

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Jan Clayton & John Raitt If I Loved You Show Tunes 1945
Dizzy Gillespie Anthropology Bebop 1946
Woody Guthrie Pretty Boy Floyd Contemporary Folk 1945
Stan Kenton with June Christy Tampico Vocal Jazz 1945
Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Atmosphere Bebop 1947
Woody Herman Sabre Dance Big Band, Dixieland, Swing 1948
Vaughn Monroe Ballerina Big Band 1947
Eddy Howard & His Orchestra To Each His Own Vocal Jazz 1946
Nathan Abshire Pine Grove Blues Cajun 1949
Margaret Whiting A Tree in the Meadow Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1948
Ray Noble & His Orchestra Linda Big Band 1947
Jimmy Preston Rock the Joint Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll 1949
Billie Holiday All of Me Standards, Vocal Jazz 1941
Perry Como Prisoner of Love Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1946
Gene Krupa and His Orchestra feat. Roy Eldridge After You've Gone Big Band 1941
Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest Skylark Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1942
Glenn Miller Star Dust Big Band 1940
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five G.I. Jive Jump-Blues 1944
Alvino Rey Orchestra Deep in the Heart of Texas Big Band, Swing 1941
Harry James & His Orchestra with Helen Forrest I've Heard That Song Before Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1942
Pee Wee Hunt & His Orchestra Twelfth Street Rag Dixieland, Ragtime 1948
Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Marie Knight Up Above My Head, I Hear Music in the Air Gospel 1948
Artie Shaw Summit Ridge Drive Swing 1940
Duke Ellington The Clothed Woman Big Band, Swing 1948
Thelonious Monk Ruby My Dear Bebop 1948
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gotta Get Drunk Again)? Swing, Vocal Jazz 1942
Fats Waller The Jitterbug Waltz Swing 1942
Artie Shaw Dancing in the Dark Big Band 1941
Bukka White Fixin' to Die Blues Delta Blues 1940
Bud Powell Dance of the Infidels Bebop 1949
Art Tatum Humoresque Stride 1940
Woody Herman Blue Flame Big Band, Swing 1941
Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys It's Only a Paper Moon Standards, Vocal Jazz 1945
Machito & His Afro-Cubans with Charlie Parker Tangá Afro-Cuban Jazz 1949
Nat King Cole It's Only a Paper Moon Standards, Vocal Jazz 1944
Lennie Tristano I Can't Get Started with You Bebop 1946
Quintette du Hot Club de France Les Yeux noirs Jazz manouche 1940
Frank Sinatra Nancy (With the Laughing Face) Vocal Jazz 1945
Dick Haymes You'll Never Know A cappella, Traditional Pop 1943
Thelonious Monk Humph Bebop 1949
Thelonious Monk Well You Needn’t Bebop 1948
Tommy Dorsey On the Sunny Side of the Street Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1945
Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers The Huckle-Buck Rhythm & Blues 1949
Mary Lou Williams Zodiac Suite Bebop 1945
Duke Ellington The "C" Jam Blues Big Band 1942
Frank Sinatra If I Loved You Standards, Vocal Jazz 1945
Dinah Shore Buttons and Bows Traditional Pop 1948
Charlie Parker Cool Blues Cool Jazz 1949
Frankie Laine Mule Train Country Pop 1949
Édith Piaf & Les Compagnons De La Chanson Les trois cloches Chanson 1946
Bukka White Parchman Farm Blues Delta Blues 1940
Jack McVea & His All Stars Open the Door Richard! Jump-Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1946
Lina Margy Ah ! Le petit vin blanc Chanson 1943
Woody Guthrie Vigilante Man American Folk Music, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter 1940
Evelyn Knight A Little Bird Told Me Traditional Pop 1948
Sammy Kaye The Old Lamp-Lighter Traditional Pop, Vocal Group 1946
Merle Travis Sixteen Tons Traditional Country 1947
Duke Ellington In a Mellotone Big Band 1940
Judy Garland Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart Traditional Pop 1943
Thelonious Monk I Should Care Hard Bop, Stride, Vocal Jazz 1949
Celina y Reutilio Santa Barbara Guaracha 1948
Mel Tormé Blue Moon Traditional Pop 1949
Glenn Miller Moonlight Cocktail Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1942
Glenn Miller Song of the Volga Boatmen Big Band, Swing 1941
Jimmy Dorsey Tangerine Big Band, Swing, Vocal Jazz 1942
Coleman Hawkins Yesterdays Bebop 1944
Lightnin' Hopkins Short Haired Woman Acoustic Texas Blues 1947
Yves Montand A Paris Chanson 1948
Jimmy Dorsey Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) Big Band, Rhumba, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1941
Lightnin' Hopkins Baby Please Don't Go Acoustic Texas Blues 1949
Sarah Vaughan with Tadd Dameron Orchestra If You Could See Me Know Vocal Jazz 1946
Dizzy Gillespie 'Round About Midnight Bebop 1946
Benny Goodman Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Big Band, Vocal Jazz 1945
Lead Belly (Black Gal) Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Delta Blues 1944
T-Bone Walker West Side Baby Electric Texas Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1948
Dorival Caymmi O Mar Brazilian Music, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter 1940
Woody Guthrie Do Re Mi Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Talking Blues 1940
Charlie Parker Scrapple from the Apple Bebop 1948
Dizzy Gillespie with Sarah Vaughan Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be) Bebop, Vocal Jazz 1945
Tommy Dorsey feat. Frank Sinatra Without a Song Standards, Swing, Vocal Jazz 1941
Charlie Barnet Skyliner Big Band, Swing 1945
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Jump-Blues, Rhythm & Blues 1946
Cecil Gant I Wonder Boogie Woogie, Piano Blues, Stride 1944
Josh White House of the Rising Sun Blues 1944
Lonnie Johnson Tomorrow Night Blues 1948
Glenn Miller Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand Swing 1940
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys New Spanish Two Step Western Swing 1946
Freddie Slack & Ella Mae Morse The House of Blue Lights Boogie Woogie, Vocal Jazz 1946
Lil Green Why Don't You Do Right? Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz 1941
Luis Mariano La belle de Cadix Operetta 1946
Lowell Fulson Three O'Clock Blues Electric Blues 1948
Bukka White Special Stream Line Delta Blues 1940
Thelonious Monk Epistrophy Bebop 1948
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive Standards 1945
John Lee Hooker Crawlin' King Snake Electric Blues 1949
Lead Belly In New Orleans Delta Blues 1944
Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing Goin' to Chicago Blues Big Band, Swing, Vocal Jazz 1941
Line Renaud Ma cabane au Canada Chanson 1947
Frank Sinatra These Foolish Things Standards, Vocal Jazz 1946
Frank Sinatra All the Things You Are Vocal Jazz 1947
Frank Sinatra Body and Soul Standards, Vocal Jazz 1949