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	163	Woody Guthrie	This Land Is Your Land	1947
3	328	John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillen	1948
4	342	Thelonious Monk	Round Midnight	1946	Listen
5	348	Bill Monroe	Blue Moon of Kentucky	1947
6	405	Bing Crosby	White Christmas	1942
7	431	Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train	1941
8	432	Billie Holiday	God Bless the Child	1941
9	447	Leadbelly	The Midnight Special	1940
10	768	Charlie Parker	Koko	1945
11	816	Hank Williams	Lovesick Blues	1949
12	853	Edith Piaf	La Vie En Rose	1945
13	892	T-Bone Walker	Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad)	1947
14	903	Jimmie Davis	You Are My Sunshine	1940
15	907	Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys	Wabash Cannonball	1947
16	978	The Orioles	It's Too Soon to Know	1948
17	989	Mahalia Jackson	Move On Up a Little Higher	1947
18	1070	Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs	Foggy Mountain Breakdown	1949
19	1142	Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?)	1945
20	1168	Dizzy Gillespie	Manteca	1947
21	1206	Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day	Sentimental Journey	1944
22	1231	Ernest Tubb	Walking the Floor Over You	1941
23	1258	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	New San Antonio Rose	1940
24	1420	The Andrews Sisters	Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	1941
25	1467	Hank Williams	Move It on Over	1947
26	1473	Lena Horne	Stormy Weather	1942
27	1531	Duke Ellington	In a Sentimental Mood	1945	Listen
28	1561	Cliff Edwards	When You Wish Upon a Star	1940
29	1672	Hank Williams	Lost Highway	1949
30	1686	Gene Autry	Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer	1949
31	1774	Vaughn Monroe	(Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)	1949
32	1925	Nat King Cole	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66	1946
33	1938	Nat King Cole	Nature Boy	1947
34	1988	Duke Ellington	Black, Brown and Beige	1944
35	2007	Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra	Solo Flight	1941
36	2015	Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers	Driftin' Blues	1945
37	2101	The Mills Brothers	Paper Doll	1943
38	2132	Muddy Waters	I Can't Be Satisfied	1948
39	2189	Bill Monroe	Mule Skinner Blues	1940
40	2219	The Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water	1941
41	2225	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Take Me Back to Tulsa	1941
42	2279	Duke Ellington	Come Sunday	1943
43	2295	Lionel Hampton	Flying Home	1942
44	2313	Django Reinhardt & Stephanie Grappelli	Nuages	1946
45	2333	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	1943
46	2432	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Don't Fence Me In	1943
47	2456	Charlie Parker	Ornithology	1946
48	2463	Dizzy Gillespie	A Night in Tunisia	1946
49	2547	Big Maceo	Worried Life Blues	1941
50	2559	Bing Crosby	Swinging on a Star	1944
51	2564	Nat King Cole	The Christmas Song	1946
52	2607	The Stanley Brothers	Little Maggie	1947
53	2608	Eddy Arnold & His Tennessee Plowboys	Bouquet of Roses	1948
54	2672	Dizzy Gillespie	Groovin' High	1945	Listen
55	2700	Lester Young	These Foolish Things	1945
56	2759	Stan Kenton	Artistry in Rhythm	1945
57	2767	The Delmore Brothers	Blues Stay Away From Me	1949
58	2821	Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters	Pistol Packin' Mama	1944
59	2875	Frank Sinatra	All or Nothing at All	1943
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
60		Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight	1947
61		Billie Holiday	Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)	1945
62		Roy Brown	Good Rockin' Tonight	1947
63		Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Choo Choo Ch'Boogie	1946
64		Billie Holiday	Body and Soul	1940
65		Nat King Cole	Straighten Up and Fly Right	1944
66		Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five	Saturday Night Fish Fry	1949