Acclaimed Music - The Top 100 Artists of 1900-49

The Top 100 Artists of 1900-49


1 Hank Williams
2 Woody Guthrie
3 Robert Johnson
4 Billie Holiday
5 Duke Ellington
6 Bing Crosby
7 The Carter Family
8 Leadbelly
9 Bill Monroe
10 Bessie Smith
11 Glenn Miller
12 Gene Autry
13 Fats Waller
14 Thelonious Monk
15 John Lee Hooker
16 Jimmie Rodgers
17 Benny Goodman
18 Judy Garland
19 Louis Armstrong
20 The Sons of the Pioneers
21 Kate Smith
22 Dizzy Gillespie
23 Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
24 Count Basie
25 Cab Calloway
26 T-Bone Walker
27 Jimmie Davis
28 Blind Lemon Jefferson
29 Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys
30 Nat King Cole
31 Hoagy Carmichael
32 Edith Piaf
33 Coleman Hawkins
34 The Andrews Sisters
35 Charlie Parker
36 The Orioles
37 Mahalia Jackson
38 Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
39 George Gershwin
40 Eck Robertson
41 Chick Webb
42 Al Jolson
43 The Ink Spots
44 Fiddlin' John Carson
45 Les Brown
46 Ernest Tubb
47 Fisk Jubilee Singers
48 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
49 Charley Patton
50 Vernon Dalhart
51 Lena Horne
52 Louis Jordan
53 Scott Joplin
54 Cliff Edwards
55 Blind Willie McTell
56 Artie Shaw
57 Harry Richman
58 Bob Hope
59 Vaughn Monroe
60 Gene Austin
61 Eddie Cantor
62 Charles Brown
63 Leo Reisman
64 Ella Fitzgerald
65 Art Tatum
66 Reverend Thomas A. Dorsey
67 Bix Beiderbecke
68 Patsy Montana
69 Chauncy Olcott
70 The Mills Brothers
71 Lennie Tristano
72 Sophie Tucker
73 Charlie Christian
74 Fred Astaire
75 Jelly Roll Morton
76 Paul Whiteman
77 Sonny Boy Williamson (I)
78 Al Dexter
79 Sister Rosetta Tharpe
80 Mamie Smith
81 Ma Rainey
82 Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
83 Tommy Dorsey
84 Bunny Berrigan
85 Lionel Hampton
86 Muddy Waters
87 Big Joe Williams
88 Dock Boggs
89 Big Maceo
90 Mississippi John Hurt
91 Blind Willie Johnson
92 Fanny Brice
93 Ethel Waters
94 Frankie Trumbauer
95 Django Reinhardt
96 Stan Kenton
97 Wynonie Harris