Albums:
1947 →
Merle Travis - Folk Songs of the Hills [10-L P; retitled Back Home for 1957 L P]
1946
Lead Belly - Negro Folk Songs Sung by Lead Belly [3 x 78]
Josh White - Ballads and Blues [4 x 78]
1944
Burl Ives - The Wayfaring Stranger [3 x 78 and 10-L P; retitled Blue Tail Fly and Other Favorites for 1954 L P]
1940
Josh White and His Carolinians - Chain Gang [4 x 78]
1939
Lead Belly - Negro Sinful Songs Sung by Lead Belly [5 x 78]
Singles and deep cuts:
1949
Gene Autrey and the Pinafores - 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer'
The Charles Brown Trio - 'Trouble Blues'
Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men - 'Boogie at Midnight'
Ruth Brown - 'So Long', Ruth Brown [Rock & Roll] [1957]
Frank "Floorshow" Culley and His Band - 'Cole Slaw - Sorghum Switch'
The Delmore Brothers - 'Blues Stay Away From Me'
Red Foley - 'Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy'
Wynonie Harris - 'All She Wants to Do Is Rock'
Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys - 'Bonaparte's Retreat', Country Classics [10-L P, 1952]
Burl Ives With Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers - 'Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)'
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - 'Saturday Night Fish Fry Pt. 1'/ 'Saturday Night Fish Fry (Concluded)'
Professor Longhair and His Shuffling Hungarians - 'Mardi Gras in New Orleans'; new version, 1950, released under Professor Longhair and His New Orleans Boys; new version, 'Go to the Mardi Gras', 1959, released under Professor Longhair
Deacon[ Big Jay ]McNeely's Blue Jays - 'The Deacon's Hop'
Big Jay McNeely - 'Blow Big Jay'
The Orioles - 'Tell Me So'
The Patti Page Quartet - 'With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming', Patti Page [1950]
Hank Penny - 'Hillbilly Be-Bop'
Hank Penny - 'Bloodshot Eyes'
Jimmy Preston and His Prestonians - 'Rock the Joint'
Wayne Raney - 'Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me'
Dinah Washington - 'Baby Get Lost'
Hank Williams - 'My Bucket's Got a Hole in It', Honky-Tonkin' [1954]
1948
Red Foley and the Cumberland Valley Boys - 'Tennessee Saturday Night'
Wynonie Harris - 'Good Rockin' Tonight'
John Lee Hooker - 'Boogie Chillen'', I'm John Lee Hooker [1959]
"Little Son" Jackson - 'Freedom Train Blues'
Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys - 'Tennessee Waltz', Country Classics [10-L P, 1952]
Amos Milburn - 'Chicken Shack Boogie'
Roy Milton and His Solid Senders - 'Hop, Skip, and Jump'
[Wild ]Bill Moore - 'We're Gonna Rock'
The Orioles - 'It's Too Soon to Know'
Patti Page and the George Barnes Trio - 'Confess', Patti Page [1950]
Leon Payne - 'Lost Highway'
Dinah Washington - 'Am I Asking Too Much'
1947
Gene Autrey - 'Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)'
Roy Brown With Bob Ogden and Orchestra - 'Good Rocking Tonight'
Francis Craig - 'Near You'
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - 'That's All Right'
Bull Moose Jackson - 'I Love You Yes I Do'
Bull Moose Jackson - 'I Want a Bowlegged Woman'
Lulu Belle and Scotty - 'Have I Told You Lately That I Love You'
"Stick" McGhee and His Buddy - 'Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-o-Dee'; new version, 1949, released under "Stick" McGhee and His Buddies
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - 'Blue Moon of Kentucky'
The Ravens - 'Write Me a Letter'
T-Bone Walker - 'Call It Stormy Monday but Tuesday Is Just as Bad'
Hank Williams - 'Move It On Over', Memorial Album [1953]
Sonny Boy Williamson[ I] - 'Stop Breaking Down'
Tex Williams - 'Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)'
Jimmy Witherspoon - 'Ain't Nobody's Business Part 1'/ 'Ain't Nobody's Business Part 2'
1946
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - 'So Glad You're Mine'
The Delmore Brothers - 'Freight Train Boogie'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Choo Choo Ch'Boogie'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Ain't That Just Like a Women (They'll Do It Every Time)'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Let the Good Times Roll'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens'
Roy Milton and His Solid Senders - 'Milton's Boogie'
Roy Milton - 'R M Blues'
Hank Penny - 'Steel Guitar Stomp'
The Ravens - 'Lullaby'
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - 'New Spanish Two Step'
1945
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - 'Rock Me Mamma'
Helen Humes With the Bill Doggett Octet - 'Be-Baba-Leba'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Caldonia'
Joe Liggins and the Honeydrippers - 'The Honeydripper Part 1'/ 'The Honeydripper Part 2'
Lucky Millinder and His Orchestra - 'Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well'
Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - 'Drifting Blues'
The Rambler Trio Featuring Arthur Smith [Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith] - 'Guitar Boogie'; released 1948 under Arthur (Guitar Boogie) Smith and His Cracker-Jacks
Josh White - 'Jelly Jelly'
1944
The Ink Spots/ Ella Fitzgerald - 'I'm Making Believe'
The Ink Spots/ Ella Fitzgerald - 'Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall'
Louis Jordan and the Tymphany Five - 'Is You or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby)'
The Mills Brothers - 'You Always Hurt the One You Love'
The Mills Brothers - 'Till Then'
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 'Strange Things Happening Every Day', Gospel Train [1958]
Josh White - 'One Meat Ball'
1942
Bea Booze - 'See See Rider Blues'
The Ink Spots - 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore'
The Mills Brothers - 'Paper Doll'
1941
Big Bill[ Broonzy] - 'Key to the Highway'
Big Maceo[ Merriweather] - 'Worried Life Blues'
Sons of the Pioneers - 'Cool Water'
Ernest Tubb - 'Walking the Floor Over You'
Big Joe Williams - 'Crawlin' King Snake'
1940
Jimmie Davis With Charles Mitchell's Orchestra - 'You Are My Sunshine'
Champion Jack Dupree - 'Junker Blues'
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads Sung by Woody Guthrie Volume 1 [E P]
Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads Sung by Woody Guthrie Volume 2 [E P]
The Ink Spots - 'When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano'
The Ink Spots - 'Maybe'
The Ink Spots - 'Java Jive'
Lead Belly/ The Golden Gate Quartet - The Midnight Special and Other Souther Prison Songs Sung by Lead Belly and the Golden Gate Quartet [E P]
Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - 'Mule Skinner Blues'
Tampa Red - 'It Hurts Me Too'
Bukka White - 'Parchman Farm Blues'
Bukka White - 'Fixin' to Die Blues'
Josh White - 'Careless Love'
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - 'New San Antonio Rose'
1939
Gene Autrey - 'Back in the Saddle Again' ['Back to the Saddle']
Gene Autrey - 'South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)'
The Ink Spots - 'If I Didn't Care'
Robert Johnson - 'Love in Vain'
Tommy McClennan - 'Bottle It Up and Go'
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - 'Ida Red'
1938
Big Bill[ Broonzy] - 'Night Time Is the Right Time No. 2'
Tampa Red - 'Love With a Feeling'
1937
Robert Johnson - 'Terraplane Blues'
Robert Johnson - 'Cross Road Blues'
Robert Johnson - 'Come On In My Kitchen'
Robert Johnson - 'Sweet Home Chicago
Robert Johnson - 'Hellhound on My Trail'
The Hondey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes) - 'Night Time Is the Right Time'
Bukka White - 'Shake 'Em On Down'
Sonny Boy Williamson[ I] - 'Good Morning, School Girl'
1936
The Carter Family - 'No Depression'
Red Foley - 'Old Shep'
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - 'Steel Guitar Rag'
1935
Leroy Carr - 'When the Sun Goes Down'
The Carter Family - 'Can the Circle Be Unbroken (Bye and Bye)'
Sleepy John Estes - 'Someday Baby Blues'
Sleepy John Estes - 'Drop Down Mama'
Patsy Montana - 'I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart'
Georgia White - 'You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now'
Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers - 'Baby, Please Don't Go'
1934
Kokomo Arnold - 'Milk Cow Blues'
Buddy Moss - 'Oh Lordy Mama'
Charlie Patton - '34 Blues'
Sons of the Pioneers - 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds'
Tampa Red - 'Sugar Mama Blues No. 1'
1932
Gene Autrey/ Jimmy Long - 'That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine'
The Mills Brothers Novelty Quartet - 'Good-Bye Blues'
The Carter Family - 'Wabash Cannonball'
1931
Clarence Ashley - 'The House Carpenter'
Lucille Bogan - 'Black Angel Blues'
Skip James - '22-20 Blues'
Skip James - 'Devil Got My Woman'
Skip James - 'I'm So Glad'
The Mills Brothers Novelty Quartet - 'Tiger Rag'
1930
Cannon's Jug Stompers - 'Walk Right In'
Son House - 'My Black Mama - Part 1'/ 'My Black Mama - Part 2'
Blind Willie Johnson - 'John the Revelator'
The Mississippi Sheiks - 'Sitting on Top of the World'
Charley Patton - 'High Water Everywhere Part I'/ 'High Water Everywhere Part II'
Charley Patton - 'Moon Going Down'
Charley Patton - 'A Spoonful Blues'
1929
Clarence Ashley - 'The Coo Coo Bird'
The Carter Family - 'Wildwood Flower'
The Carter Family - 'Engine One-Forty-Three'
The Carter Family - 'I'm Thinking To-Night of My Blue Eyes'
Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother - 'Crazy About My Baby'
Mississippi John Hurt - 'Stack O'Lee Blues'
Blind Willie Johnson - 'I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge'
Blind Willie McTell - 'Statesboro Blues'
The Memphis Jug Band - 'Stealin', Stealin''
Hambone Willie Newburn - 'Roll and Tumble Blues'
Charley Patton - 'Pony Blues'
Charley Patton - 'Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues'
Charley Patton - 'Down the Dirt Road Blues'
Washington Phillips - 'What Are They Doing in Heaven Today'
Jimmie Rodgers - 'Waiting for a Train'
Bessie Smith - 'Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out'
"Pine Top" Smith - 'Pine Top's Boogie Woogie'
1928
Leroy Carr - 'How Long - How Long Blues'
The Carter Family - 'Keep On the Sunny Side'
Mississippi John Hurt - 'Frankie'
Blind Lemon Jefferson - 'See That My Grave Is Kept Clean'
Blind Willie Johnson - 'Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed'
Blind Willie Johnson - 'Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground'
Blind Willie Johnson - 'It's Nobody's Fault but Mine'
Furry Lewis - 'Kassie Jones-Part 1'/ 'Kassie Jones-Part 2'
Bascom Lamar Lunsford - 'I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground'
Washington Phillips - 'Denomination Blues - Part 1'/ 'Denomination Blues - Part 2'
Jimmie Rodgers - 'Blue Yodel' ['Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)']
Jimmie Rodgers - 'In the Jailhouse Now'
Bessie Smith - 'Empty Bed Blues - Part 1'/ 'Empty Bed Blues - Part 2'
1927
De Ford Bailey - 'Pan American Blues'
The Carter Family - 'Single Girl, Married Girl'
Blind Lemon Jefferson - 'Match Box Blues'
1926
Blind Lemon Jefferson - 'Jack O Diamond Blues'
Blind Lemon Jefferson - 'That Black Snake Moan' ['Black Snake Moan']
1925
Charlie Poole Accompanied by the North Carolina Ramblers - 'Don't Let Your Deal Go Down Blues'
Ma Rainey Accompanied by Her Georgia Jazz Band - 'See See Rider Blues'
Bessie Smith - 'St. Louis Blues'
Ernest V Stoneman - 'The Titanic'
1924
Vernon Dalhart - 'The Prisoner's Song'
Uncle Dave Macon - 'Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy'
1923
Fiddlin' John Carson - 'The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane'
Bessie Smith - 'Down Hearted Blues'
Bessie Smith - 'Baby Won't You Please Come Home Blues'
1920
Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds - 'Crazy Blues'
Archival and compilation albums: