1000 songs

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#	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

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1000 songs to hear before you die