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