Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from the 1940s

The Top Songs from the 1940s
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Year	Sample
1	133	Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry	1949
2	150	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	1947
3	369	Bill Monroe	Blue Moon of Kentucky	1947
4	370	John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen	1948
5	390	Thelonious Monk	'Round Midnight	1946	Listen
6	430	Bing Crosby	White Christmas	1942
7	504	Leadbelly	The Midnight Special	1940
8	601	Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child	1941
9	636	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	1949
10	644	Hank Williams	Move It On Over	1947
11	659	Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train	1941
12	714	Edith Piaf	La Vie en rose	1945
13	816	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up a Little Higher	1947
14	889	Charlie Parker	Koko	1945
15	956	T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)	1947
16	1072	The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know	1948
17	1143	The Andrews Sisters	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	1941
18	1171	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)	1945
19	1185	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	1942
20	1258	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	Foggy Mountain Breakdown	1949
21	1306	Jimmie Davis	You Are My Sunshine	1940
22	1410	Lionel Hampton	Flying Home	1942
23	1418	Ernest Tubb	Walking the Floor Over You	1941
24	1454	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie	1946
25	1469	Bill Monroe	Mule Skinner Blues	1940
26	1483	Nat King Cole	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66	1946
27	1578	Duke Ellington	In a Sentimental Mood	1945	Listen
28	1613	Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca	1947
29	1666	Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day	Sentimental Journey	1944
30	1808	Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight	1947
31	1845	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	New San Antonio Rose	1940
32	1882	Hank Williams	Lost Highway	1949
33	2031	Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	Driftin' Blues	1945
34	2057	Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra	Solo Flight	1941
35	2123	Nat King Cole	Nature Boy	1947
36	2181	Nat King Cole	Straighten Up and Fly Right	1944
37	2225	Vaughn Monroe	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	1949
38	2295	Spike Jones	Der Fuehrer's Face	1942
39	2383	Muddy Waters	I Can't Be Satisfied	1948
40	2533	Duke Ellington	Come Sunday	1943
41	2657	Cliff Edwards	When You Wish Upon a Star	1940
42	2674	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back to Tulsa	1941
43	2766	Gene Autry	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	1949
44	2879	The Stanley Brothers	Little Maggie	1947
45	2880	Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys	Bouquet of Roses	1948
46	2929	Big Maceo	Worried Life Blues	1941
47	2942	The Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water	1941
48	2958	Dizzy Gillespie	A Night in Tunisia	1946
49	2959	Johnny Mercer	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	1946
50	2969	Frank Sinatra	All or Nothing at All	1940
51	2974	Lester Young	These Foolish Things	1945
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	1943
		Nat King Cole	The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)	1946
		Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Don't Fence Me In	1944
		Roy Brown	Good Rockin' Tonight	1947
		Django Reinhardt & Stephanie Grappelli	Nuages	1946
		Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan	Baby, It's Cold Outside	1949
		Charlie Parker	Ornithology	1946
		Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	1944
		Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1945	Listen
		Duke Ellington	Black, Brown and Beige	1944
		Bing Crosby	Swinging on a Star	1944
		The Delmore Brothers	Blues Stay Away From Me	1949
		Stan Kenton	Artistry in Rhythm	1945
		The Mills Brothers	Paper Doll	1942
		Spike Jones and His City Slickers	Cocktails for Two	1945
		Billie Holiday	Body and Soul	1940
		Joe Liggins	The Honeydripper	1945
		Stick McGhee	Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O-Dee	1949
		Billie Holiday	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	1945
		Arthur Smith	Guitar Boogie	1945
		Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Saturday Night Fish Fry	1949
		Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Let the Good Times Roll	1946