Acclaimed Music - The Top 100 Artists of 1900-49

The Top 100 Artists of 1900-49


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