Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from the 1940s

The Top Songs from the 1940s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	105	Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	1949
2	192	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	1947
3	360	Bing Crosby	White Christmas	1942
4	378	Bill Monroe	Blue Moon of Kentucky	1947
5	387	Thelonious Monk	Round Midnight	1946	Listen
6	392	Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child	1941
7	427	John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen	1948
8	452	Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train	1941
9	454	Leadbelly	The Midnight Special	1940
10	709	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	1949
11	718	T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)	1947
12	732	Jimmie Davis	You Are My Sunshine	1940
13	748	Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys	Wabash Cannonball	1947
14	790	Edith Piaf	La Vie En Rose	1945
15	892	The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know	1948
16	899	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up a Little Higher	1947
17	914	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	Foggy Mountain Breakdown	1949
18	1023	Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day	Sentimental Journey	1944
19	1036	Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca	1947
20	1039	Ernest Tubb	Walking the Floor Over You	1941
21	1051	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	New San Antonio Rose	1940
22	1194	The Andrews Sisters	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	1941
23	1224	Charlie Parker	Koko	1945
24	1248	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	1942
25	1266	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)	1945
26	1312	Cliff Edwards	When You Wish Upon a Star	1940
27	1412	Gene Autry	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	1949
28	1461	Hank Williams	Lost Highway	1949
29	1603	Vaughn Monroe	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	1949
30	1650	Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	Driftin' Blues	1945
31	1687	Nat King Cole	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66	1946
32	1724	Duke Ellington	Black, Brown and Beige	1944
33	1769	Nat King Cole	Nature Boy	1947
34	1790	The Mills Brothers	Paper Doll	1943
35	1836	Bill Monroe	Mule Skinner Blues	1940
36	1864	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back to Tulsa	1941
37	1878	Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra	Solo Flight	1941
38	1888	The Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water	1941
39	1986	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	1943
40	2035	Lionel Hampton	Flying Home	1942
41	2043	Muddy Waters	I Can't Be Satisfied	1948
42	2057	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Don't Fence Me In	1943
43	2155	Bing Crosby	Swinging on a Star	1944
44	2156	Charlie Parker	Ornithology	1946
45	2160	Big Maceo	Worried Life Blues	1941
46	2242	Duke Ellington	Come Sunday	1943
47	2249	Nat King Cole	The Christmas Song	1946
48	2251	Dizzy Gillespie	A Night in Tunisia	1946
49	2417	Django Reinhardt & Stephanie Grappelli	Nuages	1946
50	2455	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	1944
51	2509	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1945	Listen
52	2510	Stan Kenton	Artistry in Rhythm	1945
53	2606	Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight	1947
54	2731	Duke Ellington	In a Sentimental Mood	1945	Listen
55	2914	Billie Holiday	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	1945