Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from the 1940s

The Top Songs from the 1940s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	118	Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	1949
2	165	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	1947
3	335	Thelonious Monk	Round Midnight	1946	Listen
4	346	John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen	1948
5	380	Bill Monroe	Blue Moon of Kentucky	1947
6	441	Bing Crosby	White Christmas	1942
7	448	Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train	1941
8	465	Leadbelly	The Midnight Special	1940
9	499	Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child	1941
10	789	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	1949
11	821	Charlie Parker	Koko	1945
12	843	Edith Piaf	La Vie En Rose	1945
13	934	T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)	1947
14	962	Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys	Wabash Cannonball	1947
15	964	Jimmie Davis	You Are My Sunshine	1940
16	1022	The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know	1948
17	1051	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up a Little Higher	1947
18	1085	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	Foggy Mountain Breakdown	1949
19	1167	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)	1945
20	1219	Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca	1947
21	1277	Ernest Tubb	Walking the Floor Over You	1941
22	1280	Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day	Sentimental Journey	1944
23	1369	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	New San Antonio Rose	1940
24	1487	Hank Williams	Move It On Over	1947
25	1498	Duke Ellington	In a Sentimental Mood	1945	Listen
26	1509	The Andrews Sisters	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	1941
27	1569	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	1942
28	1690	Cliff Edwards	When You Wish Upon a Star	1940
29	1772	Hank Williams	Lost Highway	1949
30	1789	Gene Autry	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	1949
31	1929	Vaughn Monroe	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	1949
32	1951	Nat King Cole	Nature Boy	1947
33	2053	Nat King Cole	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66	1946
34	2057	Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	Driftin' Blues	1945
35	2078	Duke Ellington	Black, Brown and Beige	1944
36	2083	Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra	Solo Flight	1941
37	2182	Muddy Waters	I Can't Be Satisfied	1948
38	2258	Bill Monroe	Mule Skinner Blues	1940
39	2300	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back to Tulsa	1941
40	2316	The Mills Brothers	Paper Doll	1943
41	2336	The Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water	1941
42	2392	Duke Ellington	Come Sunday	1943
43	2479	Lionel Hampton	Flying Home	1942
44	2491	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	1943
45	2497	Django Reinhardt & Stephanie Grappelli	Nuages	1946
46	2542	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Don't Fence Me In	1943
47	2555	Charlie Parker	Ornithology	1946
48	2586	Big Maceo	Worried Life Blues	1941
49	2603	Dizzy Gillespie	A Night in Tunisia	1946
50	2647	The Stanley Brothers	Little Maggie	1947
51	2648	Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys	Bouquet of Roses	1948
52	2659	Bing Crosby	Swinging on a Star	1944
53	2693	Nat King Cole	The Christmas Song	1946
54	2696	Lester Young	These Foolish Things	1945
55	2795	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1945	Listen
56	2808	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	1944
57	2838	The Delmore Brothers	Blues Stay Away From Me	1949
58	2896	Stan Kenton	Artistry in Rhythm	1945