Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from the 1920s
The Top Songs from the 1920s

Rank All Time
Rank
ArtistSingleYearSample
1 343 Louis Armstrong
West End Blues
1928
2 430 Jimmie Rodgers
Blue Yodel (T for Texas)
1928
3 643 Bessie Smith
Downhearted Blues
1923
4 779 George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
1924
5 846 The Carter Family
Wildwood Flower
1929
6 920 Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals
Star Dust
1927
7 992 Fats Waller
Ain't Misbehavin'
1929
8 993 Eck Robertson
Sally Gooden
1922
9 1036 Charley Patton
Pony Blues
1929
10 1216 Fiddlin' John Carson
Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane
1923
11 1281 Bessie Smith
St. Louis Blues
1925
12 1283 The Carter Family
Keep on the Sunny Side
1928
13 1361 Vernon Dalhart
The Prisoner's Song
1925
14 1382 Blind Lemon Jefferson
Matchbox Blues
1927
15 1605 Blind Willie McTell
Statesboro Blues
1928
16 1758 Duke Ellington
Black and Tan Fantasy
1927
17 1771 Isham Jones Orchestra
It Had to Be You
1924
18 1795 Fats Waller
Handful of Keys
1929
19 1861 Eddie Cantor
Makin' Whopee
1928
20 1944 Gene Austin
Bye Bye Blackbird
1926
21 2137 Jelly Roll Morton
King Porter Stomp
1924
22 2170 Blind Lemon Jefferson
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
1928
23 2200 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
Whispering
1920
24 2235 Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
Lovesick Blues
1928
25 2263 Bessie Smith
Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out
1929
26 2287 Mamie Smith
Crazy Blues
1920
27 2289 Clarence "Tom" Ashley
The Coo Coo Bird
1929
28 2290 Ma Rainey
See See Rider Blues
1925
29 2291 Bix Beiderbecke
In a Mist
1927
30 2292 Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
Pinetop's Boogie Woogie
1928
31 2318 Uncle Dave Mason
Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy
1924
32 2319 Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers
Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
1925
33 2320 DeFord Bailey
Pan American Blues
1927
34 2341 Jimmie Rodgers
In the Jailhouse Now
1928
35 2420 Dock Boggs
Country Blues
1927
36 2530 Mississippi John Hurt
Stack O' Lee Blues
1928
37 2533 Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke
Singin' the Blues
1927
38 2537 Fanny Brice
My Man (From Ziegfield Follies of 1921)
1922
39 2543 Blind Willie Johnson
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
1927
40 2781 Bessie Smith
'T Ain't nobody's Bizness If I Do
1922


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