|
# |
Title |
|
Artist |
Year ↑ |
Theme |
Playcount |
Listeners |
| 303 |
Jerusalem
|
|
William Blake, Charles Hubert and Hastings Parry |
1916 |
People and places |
-
|
-
|
| 377 |
Things Are Worse in Russia
|
|
Sam Mayo |
1922 |
People and places |
465
|
205
|
| 92 |
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love
|
|
Cole Porter |
1928 |
Love |
-
|
-
|
| 380 |
Stack O’ Lee
|
|
Mississippi John Hurt |
1928 |
People and places |
-
|
-
|
| 405 |
T for Texas
|
|
Jimmie Rodgers |
1928 |
People and places |
125
|
63
|
| 540 |
Empty Bed Blues
|
|
Bessie Smith |
1928 |
Sex |
9,424
|
4,488
|
| 705 |
St James Infirmary Blues
|
|
Louis Armstrong |
1928 |
Life and death |
100
|
43
|
| 822 |
Frankie and Johnny
|
|
Mae West |
1928 |
Life and death |
1,626
|
864
|
| 564 |
(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue
|
|
Louis Armstrong |
1929 |
Politics and protest |
11,426
|
3,827
|
| 655 |
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?
|
|
Blind Alfred Reed |
1929 |
Politics and protest |
771
|
307
|
| 202 |
Devil Got My Woman
|
|
Skip James |
1931 |
Heartbreak |
169,704
|
54,872
|
| 316 |
Minnie the Moocher
|
|
Cab Calloway |
1931 |
People and places |
257,457
|
94,777
|
| 333 |
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
|
|
Bing Crosby |
1932 |
People and places |
1,574
|
424
|
| 592 |
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
|
|
Bing Crosby |
1932 |
Politics and protest |
1,574
|
424
|
| 720 |
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
|
|
The Carter Family |
1935 |
Life and death |
-
|
-
|
| 363 |
Cross Road Blues
|
|
Robert Johnson |
1936 |
People and places |
142,070
|
54,250
|
| 631 |
The Bourgeois Blues
|
|
Leadbelly |
1938 |
Politics and protest |
41,425
|
20,238
|
| 964 |
Begin the Beguine
|
|
Artie Shaw |
1938 |
Party songs |
66,464
|
29,496
|
| 57 |
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
|
|
Judy Garland |
1939 |
Love |
28,241
|
12,010
|
| 353 |
Over the Rainbow
|
|
Judy Garland |
1939 |
People and places |
106,536
|
36,824
|
| 622 |
Strange Fruit
|
|
Billie Holliday |
1939 |
Politics and protest |
695
|
263
|
| 354 |
Do Re Mi
|
|
Woody Guthrie |
1940 |
People and places |
45,058
|
23,619
|
| 379 |
Me and My Chauffeur Blues
|
|
Memphis Minnie |
1941 |
People and places |
22,071
|
11,522
|
| 760 |
Gloomy Sunday
|
|
Billie Holiday |
1941 |
Life and death |
199,873
|
63,968
|
| 616 |
This Land Is Your Land
|
|
Woody Guthrie |
1944 |
Politics and protest |
98,373
|
44,738
|
| 898 |
Cocktails for Two
|
|
Spike Jones and His City Slickers |
1944 |
Party songs |
1,257
|
614
|
| 364 |
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
|
|
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five |
1946 |
People and places |
-
|
-
|
| 366 |
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
|
|
Nat King Cole |
1946 |
People and places |
69,181
|
30,013
|
| 827 |
I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
|
|
Hank Williams |
1949 |
Life and death |
-
|
-
|
| 418 |
Rank Stranger
|
|
The Stanley Brothers |
1950 |
People and places |
1,225
|
307
|
| 828 |
My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
|
|
Hank Williams |
1950 |
Life and death |
27,769
|
10,245
|
| 277 |
Cold, Cold Heart
|
|
Hank Williams |
1951 |
Heartbreak |
48,123
|
18,504
|
| 311 |
Rocket 88
|
|
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats |
1951 |
People and places |
20,743
|
8,026
|
| 370 |
London is the Place For Me
|
|
Lord Kitchener |
1951 |
People and places |
18,797
|
6,815
|
| 132 |
Mad About the Boy
|
|
Dinah Washington |
1952 |
Love |
250,150
|
105,368
|
| 381 |
Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend
|
|
Marilyn Monroe |
1953 |
People and places |
-
|
-
|
| 30 |
I Got a Woman
|
|
Ray Charles |
1954 |
Love |
300,383
|
101,257
|
| 305 |
Hernando’s Hideaway
|
|
Archie Bleyer |
1954 |
People and places |
-
|
-
|
| 327 |
Riot in Cell Block #9
|
|
The Coasters |
1954 |
People and places |
2,778
|
1,178
|
| 555 |
Shake, Rattle and Roll
|
|
Big Joe Turner |
1954 |
Sex |
20,695
|
8,300
|
| 111 |
Love and Marriage
|
|
Frank Sinatra |
1955 |
Love |
338,224
|
106,315
|
| 320 |
Folsom Prison Blues
|
|
Johnny Cash |
1955 |
People and places |
1,578,701
|
323,865
|
| 494 |
Tutti Frutti
|
|
Little Richard |
1955 |
Sex |
312,669
|
108,573
|
| 28 |
I Walk the Line
|
|
Johnny Cash |
1956 |
Love |
1,986,365
|
402,193
|
| 45 |
Blueberry Hill
|
|
Fats Domino |
1956 |
Love |
248,443
|
93,544
|
| 51 |
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
|
|
Ella Fitzgerald |
1956 |
Love |
-
|
-
|
| 94 |
Love Me Tender
|
|
Elvis Presley |
1956 |
Love |
641,883
|
173,915
|
| 126 |
Why Do Fools Fall in Love?
|
|
The Teenagers featuring Frankie Lymon |
1956 |
Love |
12
|
5
|
| 323 |
Lonely Avenue
|
|
Ray Charles |
1956 |
People and places |
102,085
|
37,448
|
| 373 |
Kentucky
|
|
The Louvin Brothers |
1956 |
People and places |
5,250
|
2,479
|