| |
Artist |
Single |
Year |
| 1 |
Hank Williams |
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry |
1949 |
| 2 |
Woody Guthrie |
This Land Is Your Land |
1947 |
| 3 |
Bing Crosby |
White Christmas |
1942 |
| 4 |
Bill Monroe |
Blue Moon of Kentucky |
1947 |
| 5 |
Thelonious Monk |
Round Midnight |
1946 |
| 6 |
Billie Holiday |
God Bless the Child |
1941 |
| 7 |
John Lee Hooker |
Boogie Chillen |
1948 |
| 8 |
Duke Ellington |
Take the "A" Train |
1941 |
| 9 |
Leadbelly |
The Midnight Special |
1940 |
| 10 |
Hank Williams |
Lovesick Blues |
1949 |
| 11 |
T-Bone Walker |
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just As Bad) |
1947 |
| 12 |
Jimmie Davis |
You Are My Sunshine |
1940 |
| 13 |
Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys |
Wabash Cannonball |
1947 |
| 14 |
Edith Piaf |
La Vie En Rose |
1945 |
| 15 |
The Orioles |
It's Too Soon to Know |
1948 |
| 16 |
Mahalia Jackson |
Move On Up a Little Higher |
1947 |
| 17 |
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown |
1949 |
| 18 |
Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day |
Sentimental Journey |
1944 |
| 19 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Manteca |
1947 |
| 20 |
Ernest Tubb |
Walking the Floor Over You |
1941 |
| 21 |
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
New San Antonio Rose |
1940 |
| 22 |
The Andrews Sisters |
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy |
1941 |
| 23 |
Charlie Parker |
Koko |
1945 |
| 24 |
Lena Horne |
Stormy Weather |
1942 |
| 25 |
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five |
Caldonia (Boogie) (What Makes Your Big Head So Hard?) |
1945 |
| 26 |
Cliff Edwards |
When You Wish Upon a Star |
1940 |
| 27 |
Gene Autry |
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer |
1949 |
| 28 |
Hank Williams |
Lost Highway |
1949 |
| 29 |
Vaughn Monroe |
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend) |
1949 |
| 30 |
Charles Brown with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers |
Driftin' Blues |
1945 |
| 31 |
Nat King Cole |
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 |
1946 |
| 32 |
Duke Ellington |
Black, Brown and Beige |
1944 |
| 33 |
Nat King Cole |
Nature Boy |
1947 |
| 34 |
The Mills Brothers |
Paper Doll |
1943 |
| 35 |
Bill Monroe |
Mule Skinner Blues |
1940 |
| 36 |
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys |
Take Me Back to Tulsa |
1941 |
| 37 |
Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Orchestra |
Solo Flight |
1941 |
| 38 |
The Sons of the Pioneers |
Cool Water |
1941 |
| 39 |
Al Dexter |
Pistol Packin' Mama |
1943 |
| 40 |
Lionel Hampton |
Flying Home |
1942 |
| 41 |
Muddy Waters |
I Can't Be Satisfied |
1948 |
| 42 |
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters |
Don't Fence Me In |
1943 |
| 43 |
Bing Crosby |
Swinging on a Star |
1944 |
| 44 |
Charlie Parker |
Ornithology |
1946 |
| 45 |
Big Maceo |
Worried Life Blues |
1941 |
| 46 |
Duke Ellington |
Come Sunday |
1943 |
| 47 |
Nat King Cole |
The Christmas Song |
1946 |
| 48 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
A Night in Tunisia |
1946 |
| 49 |
Django Reinhardt & Stephanie Grappelli |
Nuages |
1946 |
| 50 |
Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters |
Pistol Packin' Mama |
1944 |
| 51 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Groovin' High |
1945 |
| 52 |
Stan Kenton |
Artistry in Rhythm |
1945 |
| 53 |
Wynonie Harris |
Good Rockin' Tonight |
1947 |
| 54 |
Duke Ellington |
In a Sentimental Mood |
1945 |
| 55 |
Billie Holiday |
Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) |
1945
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