Greatest Music Hits

of the

20th Century

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Song

Performer

Year

Music Link

Yankee Doodle

Vess Ossman

1894

Video

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Sousa's Band

1896

Video

   

1900's

 

The Entertainer

Scott Joplin

1902

Video

Auld Lang Syne

Frank Stanley

1907

Video

Vesti La Giubba

Enrico Caruso

1907

Video

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Billy Murray

1908

Video

Swing Low Sweet Chariot

The Fisk Jubilee Singers

1909

Video

   

1910s

 

My Old Kentucky Home

Geraldine Farrar

1910

Video

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

The Peerless Quartet

1911

Video

Some of These Days

Sophie Tucker

1911

Video

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Chauncey Olcott

1913

Video

Over There

The American Quartet

1917

 

The Star Spangled Banner

John McCormick

1917

Video

Tiger Rag

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

1918

Video

   

1920s

 

Whispering

Paul Whiteman Orchestra

1920

Video

Swanee

Al Jolson

1920

Video

Down Hearted Blues

Bessie Smith

1923

Video

King Porter Stomp

Jelly Roll Morton

1923

Video

St. Louis Blues

W.C. Handy

1923

Video

Yes We Have No Bananas

Billy Jones

1923

Video

It Had to Be You

Isham Jones Orchestra

1924

Video

Charleston

Arthur Gibbs & Gang

1924

Video

The Prisoner's Song

Vernon Dalhart

1924

Video

America the Beautiful

Louise Homer

1925

Video

Sweet Georgia Brown

Ben Bernie Orchestra

1925

Video

Bye Bye Blackbird

Gene Austin

1926

Video

Me and My Shadow

Whisperin' Jack Smith

1927

Video

I Wanna Be Loved By You

Helen Kane

1928

Video

Star Dust

Hoagy Carmichael

1928

Video

Makin' Whoopee

Eddie Cantor

1929

Video

Ain't Misbehavin'

Fats Waller

1929

Video

   

1930s

 

Blue Yodel (T for Texas)

Jimmie Rodgers

1930

Video

Happy Days Are Here Again

Ben Selvin Orchestra

1930

Video

A Little Kiss Each Morning

Rudy Vallee

1930

 

I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You)

Guy Lombardo

1930

Video

What Is This Thing Called Love? Ben Bernie

1930

Video

Dream A Little Dream Of Me Wayne King

1931

Video

Georgia On My Mind Frankie Trumbauer

1931

Video

I Found A Million Dollar Baby Bing Crosby

1931

Video

Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Rudy Vallee

1931

Video

I Got Rhythm Red Nichols

1931

Video

All Of Me Louis Armstrong

1932

Video

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Bing Crosby

1932

Video

Say It Isn't So Ozzie Nelson

1932

Video

Got A Date With An Angel Debroy Somers Band

1932

Video

Underneath the Harlem Moon

Joe Rines

1932

Video

Heat Wave Ethel Waters

1933

Video

Blue Prelude Bing Crosby

1933

Video

Gold Digger's Song (We're In the Money) Ted Lewis

1933

Video

Who's Afraid Of the Big Bad Wolf? Victor Young

1933

Video

In the Valley Of the Moon Joe Green

1933

Video

The Champagne Waltz Glen Gray

1934

 
Anything Goes Paul Whiteman

1934

 
April In Paris Freddy Martin

1934

 
Flying Down To Rio Fred Astaire

1934

 
I Only Have Eyes For You Eddy Duchin

1934

 
Can the Circle Be Unbroken The Carter Family

1935

 
About A Quarter To Nine Johnny Green

1935

 
Accent On Youth Duke Ellington

1935

 
Blue Moon Benny Goodman

1935

 
I Get A Kick Out Of You Paul Whiteman

1935

 
The Lady In Red  Xavier Cugat

1935

 
On the Good Ship Lollipop Rudy Vallee

1935

 
Truckin' Fats Waller

1935

 
You Are My Lucky Star The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra

1935

 
You're the Top Cole Porter

1935

 
Afterglow Leo Reisman

1936

 
All My Life Fats Waller

1936

 
Alone Tommy Dorsey

1936

 
Who Loves You? Billie Holiday and Teddy Wilson

1936

 
I'm Building Up To An Awful Letdown Fred Astaire

1936

 
Afraid To Dream Benny Goodman

1937

 
Blue Hawaii Bing Crosby

1937

 
Goodnight, My Love  Hal Kemp

1937

 
Have You Got Any Castles, Baby? Dolly Dawn

1937

 
Farewell, My Love Russ Morgan

1937

 
Gone With the Wind Horace Heidt

1937

 
The Love Bug Will Bite You Pinky Tomlin

1937

 
Carelessly Teddy Wilson & Billie Holiday

1937

 
When My Dream Boat Comes Home Henry Allen

1937

 
When the Saints Go Marching In Louis Armstrong

1938

 
Cry, Baby, Cry  Larry Clinton

1938

 
Alexander's Ragtime Band The Boswell Sisters

1938

 
A-Tisket, A-Tasket Ella Fitzgerald

1938

 
Change Partners Fred Astaire

1938

 
Heigh Ho Seven Dwarfs

1938

 
Goodnight, Angel Artie Shaw

1938

 
Heart and Soul Larry Clinton

1938

 
Day After Day Richard Himber

1938

 
Day Dreaming Rudy Vallee

1938

 
Beer Barrel Polka The Andrews Sisters

1939

 
Deep Purple Jimmy Dorsey

1939

 
Blue Orchids Glenn Miller

1939

 
F.D.R. Jones Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb

1939

 
Heaven Can Wait Glen Gray

1939

 
Jeepers Creepers Al Donohue

1939

 
What's New? Benny Goodman

1939

 
   

1940s

 
In the mood Glenn Miller

1940

 
Imagination Tommy Dorsey

1940

 
It's A Wonderful World Charlie Barnet

1940

 
Fools Rush In Glenn Miller

1940

 
When You Wish Upon A Star Cliff Edwards

1940

 
When the Swallows Come Back To Capistrano Glenn Miller

1940