No. |
Song |
Artist
|
1 |
The Christmas Song
| King Cole Trio
|
2 |
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
| Louis Jordan
|
3 |
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens
| Louis Jordan
|
4 |
The Gypsy
| Ink Spots / Dinah Shore
|
5 |
Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop
| Lionel Hampton / Tex Beneke
|
6 |
Open The Door, Richard
| Jack McVea / Dusty Fletcher
|
7 |
Let The Good Times Roll
| Louis Jordan
|
8 |
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
| King Cole Trio
|
9 |
That's My Desire
| Frankie Laine
|
10 |
To Each His Own
| Ink Spots / Eddy Howard / Freddy Martin (Stuart Wade)
|
11 |
Sioux City Sue
| Bing Crosby / Zeke Manners / Hoosier Hot Shots / Tiny Hill
|
12 |
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
| King Cole Trio
|
13 |
The Old Lamplighter
| Sammy Kaye (Billy Williams) / Kay Kyser (Michael Douglas)
|
14 |
Prisoner Of Love
| Perry Como / Billy Eckstine / Ink Spots
|
15 |
The House of Blue Lights
| Freddie Slack (Ella Mae Morse)
|
16 |
Ain't That Just Like A Woman
| Louis Jordan
|
17 |
Blow Top Blues
| Lionel Hampton (Dinah Washington)
|
18 |
Oh! What It Seemed To Be
| Frankie Carle / Frank Sinatra
|
19 |
Surrender
| Perry Como / Woody Herman (Blue Flames)
|
20 |
Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside
| Sammy Kaye / Dinah Shore / Andy Russell / Teddy Walters
|
21 |
Ole Buttermilk Sky
| Kay Kyser / Hoagy Carmichael / Paul Weston
|
22 |
Jole Blon
| Harry Choates / Moon Mullican
|
23 |
Rumors Are Flying
| Frankie Carle / Les Paul (Andrews Sisters) / Tony Martin / Three Suns
|
24 |
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
| Johnny Mercer / Sammy Kaye
|
25 |
Winter Wonderland
| Johny Mercer / Perry Como
|
26 |
A Night In Tunisia
| Dizzy Gilespie / Charlie Parker
|
27 |
As Time Goes By
| Dooley Wilson
|
28 |
They Say It's Wonderful
| Frank Sinatra / Perry Como / Bing Crosby
|
29 |
Ko Ko
| Charlie Parker
|
30 |
R.M. Blues
| Roy Milton
|
31 |
Roly Poly
| Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
|
32 |
Les Trois Cloches
| Eidth Piaf
|
33 |
Freight Train Boogie
| Delmore Brothers
|
34 |
Stone Cold Dead In The Market (He Had It Coming)
| Louis Jordan & Ella Fitzgerald
|
35 |
The Anniversary Song
| Al Jolson
|
36 |
So Glad You're Mine
| Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
|
37 |
Huggin' And Chalkin'
| Hoagy Carmichael / Kay Kyser
|
38 |
Down The Road Apiece
| Amos Milburn
|
39 |
Frim Fram Sauce
| Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong / King Cole Trio
|
40 |
I Know Who Threw The Whiskey (In The Well)
| Bull Moose Jackson
|
41 |
Kentucky Waltz
| Bill Monroe
|
42 |
Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)
| Hoosier Hot Shots & Sally Foster / Elton Britt
|
43 |
One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy)
| Freddy Martin / Phil Harris / Kay Kyser
|
44 |
Shoo-Fly Pie And Apple Pan Dowdy
| Dinah Shore / Guy Lombardo / Stan Kenton (June Christy)
|
45 |
I Know
| Andy Kirk (Jubilaires)
|
46 |
Five Minutes More
| Frank Sinatra / Tex Beneke
|
47 |
Guitar Polka
| Al Dexter
|
48 |
Reconversion Blues
| Louis Jordan
|
49 |
Salt Pork, West Virginia
| Louis Jordan
|
50 |
You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love)
| King Cole Trio / Billy Eckstine
|
51 |
Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got
| Julia Lee
|
52 |
It's A Good Day
| Peggy Lee
|
53 |
South America, Take It Away
| Andrews Sisters & Bing Crosby / Xavier Cugat (Buddy Clark)
|
54 |
Sunny Road
| Johnny Moore's Three Blazers / Roosevelt Sykes
|
55 |
Beware, Brother, Beware
| Louis Jordan
|
56 |
Peace In The Valley
| Flying Clouds of Detroit
|
57 |
I Don't Know Enough About You
| Benny Goodman (Art Lund) / Mills Brothers / Peggy Lee
|
58 |
Wine Women And Song
| Al Dexter
|
59 |
I've Got A Right To Cry
| Erskine Hawkins
|
60 |
Day By Day
| Frank Sinatra / Joe Stafford
|
61 |
What Is Life Without Love?
| Eddy Arnold
|
62 |
New Spanish Two Step
| Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
|
63 |
No Vacancy
| Merle Travis
|
64 |
Swanee River Boogie
| Albert Ammons
|
65 |
Petootie Pie
| Louis Jordan & Ella Fitzgerald
|
66 |
You Keep Coming Back Like A Song
| Dinah Shore / Joe Stafford / Bing Crosby
|
67 |
The Coffee Song
| Frank Sinatra
|
68 |
Shake The Boogie
| Sonny Boy Williamson
|
69 |
Rainbow At Midnight
| Ernest Tubb
|
70 |
Bobby Sox Blues
| T-Bone Walker
|
71 |
I Guess I'll Get The Papers (And Go Home)
| Mills Brothers
|
72 |
A Gal In Calico
| Johnny Mercer / Tex Beneke (Crew Chiefs) / Benny Goodman (Eve Young)
|
73 |
Stay a Little Longer
| Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
|
74 |
Cement Mixer (Put-Ti, Put-Ti)
| Slim Gaillard Trio / Alvino Rey / Charlie Barnet (Art Robey)
|
75 |
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
| Harry James / Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest
|
76 |
The Rickety Rickshaw Man
| Eddy Howard
|
77 |
The Whole World Is Singing My Song
| Les Brown (Doris Day)
|
78 |
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly
| Freddy Martin (Glenn Hughes) / Dinah Shore / Jimmy Dorsey (Dee Parker) / Ethel Merman
|
79 |
There's Good Blues Tonight
| Lucky Millinder (Annisteen Allen)
|
80 |
Blue Skies
| Benny Goodman (Art Lund) / Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing)
|
81 |
Boogie Blues
| Gene Krupa (Anita O'Day)
|
82 |
Chicago Breakdown
| Big Maceo
|
83 |
Passé
| Tex Beneke (Crew Chiefs) / Margaret Whiting
|
84 |
Good Morning Heartache
| Billie Holiday
|
85 |
Bumble Boogie
| Freddy Martin
|
86 |
Detour
| Spade Cooley / Elton Britt / Wesley Tuttle
|
87 |
It's All Over Now
| Frankie Carle (Marjorie Hughes) / Peggy Lee
|
88 |
Seems Like Old Times
| Vaughn Monroe / Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney)
|
89 |
Divorce Me C.O.D.
| Merle Travis
|
90 |
Don't Be a Baby, Baby
| Mills Brothers / Benny Goodman (Art Lund)
|
91 |
My Gal's A Jockey
| Joe Turner
|
92 |
La Bamba
| Hermanos Huesca
|
93 |
You're Gonna Miss Me (When I'm Gone)
| Lowell Fulson
|
94 |
September Song
| Frank Sinatra / Dardanelle Trio
|
95 |
Sneakin' Out
| Erskine Hawkins
|
96 |
Guilty
| Margaret Whiting
|
97 |
Pastures of Plenty
| Woody Guthrie
|
98 |
Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
| Floyd Tillman
|
99 |
Miserlou
| Jan August
|
100 |
Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe
|
20 more worth mentioning. |
101 |
Just The Other Day
| Sam Donahue
|
102 |
In The Moon Mist
| Paul Weston (Pied Pipers)
|
103 |
Don't Explain
| Billie Holiday
|
104 |
Boll Weevil Song
| Tex Ritter
|
105 |
Come To Baby, Do!
| Duke Ellington (Joya Sherrill)
|
106 |
Port Wine
| Cats 'N Jammer Three (Bill Samuels)
|
107 |
Bye Bye Baby Blues
| Ravens
|
108 |
Milton's Boogie
| Roy Milton
|
109 |
After Midnite
| Amos Milburn
|
110 |
Tanya
| Joe Liggins
|
111 |
Playful Baby
| Wynonie Harris
|
112 |
Wave To Me, My Lady
| Elton Britt
|
113 |
The Best Man
| King Cole Trio / Les Brown (Butch Stone)
|
114 |
Red Light
| Red Callender Trio
|
115 |
The Mad Boogie
| Count Basie
|
116 |
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
| Louis Armstrong
|
117 |
Sportin' Life Blues
| Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
|
118 |
On The Boardwalk In Atlantic City
| Charioteers
|
119 |
I Sold My Heart To The Junkman
| Basin Street Boys
|
120 |
Zeb's Mountain Boogie
| Brad Bardy & His Tennesseans
|
DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 1946 |
Adam's Choice: An unheralded great record from 1946 |
* |
Cleanhead Blues
| Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson
|
Bruce's Choice: |
* |
Walk 'Em
| Buddy Johnson
|
Lew's Choice: |
* |
Moose the Mooche
| Charlie Parker
|