

Irving Berlin “ God Bless America” (1939)Ĥ9.Ğdward Madden and Percy Wenrich “ Moonlight Bay” (1912)ĥ1. Cohan “ You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (1906)Ĥ8. traditional, adapted by Fred Weatherly “Danny Boy” (1913)Ĥ7. Wodehouse “ They Didn't Believe Me” (1914)Ĥ5. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart “Manhattan” (1925)Ĥ1.Ěrthur B Sterling and Kerry Mills “ Meet Me in St. George & Ira Gershwin “ Someone to Watch Over Me” (1926)ģ9. Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer “ Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Tol’ Me)” (1941)ģ8. George & Ira Gershwin “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” (1937)ģ7. Jimmy Monaco and Joseph McCarthy “ You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (1913)ģ6. Herman Hupfield “ As Time Goes By” (1931)ģ5. “Yip” Harburg “ Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932)ģ4. Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer “ Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1908)ģ2. Kurt Weill, Mark Blitzstein, and Berthold Brecht “ Mack the Knife” (1928)ģ1. Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson “ Carolina in the Morning” (1923)ģ0. Egan, and Richard Whiting “ Ain’t We Got Fun?” (1921)Ģ8.Ğrnie Burnett and George A. Gerard and Harry Armstrong “ Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (1903)Ģ6.ĝuke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, and Irving Mills “Sophisticated Lady” (1933)Ģ7. Irving Berlin “ Cheek to Cheek” (1935)Ģ5. Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler “ Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)” (1933)Ģ4. Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach “ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” (1933)Ģ3. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II “ Ol’ Man River” (1927)Ģ2. Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields “ The Way You Look Tonight” (1936)Ģ0.Ĝole Porter “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (1936)Ģ1. Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar “ Tea for Two” (1925)ġ9. George and Ira Gershwin “ I Got Rhythm” (1930)ġ8. Hughie Cannon and Johnnie Queen “ Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (1902)ġ7. Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields “ I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” (1928)ġ6. Isham Jones and Gus Kahn “ It Had to Be You” (1924)ġ5. George Gershwin and Irving Caesar “ Swanee” (1920)ġ4. Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields “ On the Sunny Side of the Street” (1930)ġ2.ğats Waller “ Ain’t Misbehavin’” (1929)ġ3. Cohan “ Give My Regards to Broadway” (1904)ġ1. “Yip” Harburg “ Over the Rainbow” (1939)Ĩ.Ĝole Porter “ Begin the Beguine” (1935)ĩ. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II “ All the Things You Are” (1939)ħ. Irving Berlin “ White Christmas” (1942)Ħ.

Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish “ Stardust” (1927)ĥ. Irving Berlin “ Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)ģ. Here are the top 100 songs listed with their songwriters and first year of appearance:ġ. This list has been created by aggregating 31 lists (see sources at the bottom of the page) which focused on 20th century song titles not recorded by any specific artist. These are songs from an era when songwriters were more at the forefront, penning songs for theater and film that were often recorded by multiple artists and spawned multiple chart versions. Songs which have become known as standards or those comprising the great American songbook are generally popular songs from the early 20th century.
