Songs from the Year 1927

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This page lists the top songs of 1927 in the source charts. The way that the various charts are combined to reach this final list is described on the in the site generation page.

Between 1920 and 1940 there are few available charts (at least that we can find). These results should be treated with some caution since, with few exceptions, they are based on fairly subjective charts and biased towards the USA.

The top ten song artists of 1927 were:
1:Paul Whiteman	3:George Olsen	5:Ben Bernie	7:Bix Beiderbecke	9:Hoagy Carmichael
2:Gene Austin	4:Nat Shilkret	6:Blind Lemon Jefferson	8:Duke Ellington	10:Ben Selvin

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Hoagy Carmichael	Stardust	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1995 (1927), ASCAP song of 1927, Library of Congress artifact added 2004 (1927), Music Imprint 10 of 1920s, Jazz Standard 12, nuTsie 31 of 1920s, RIAA 40, DMDB 43 (1929), Acclaimed 654 (1927), RYM 13 of 1928
2	Gene Austin	My Blue Heaven	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (26 weeks), Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978 (1928), US invalid BB 2 of 1927, POP 3 of 1927, nuTsie 12 of 1920s, Brazil 15 of 1928, DMDB 53 (1927), aceterrier.com 8 of the 1920s (1927), RYM 13 of 1927
3	Duke Ellington	Black & Tan Fantasy	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1981 (1928), Peel list 2 of 1927, US invalid BB 8 of 1928, POP 8 of 1928, US Billboard 15 - 1928 (3 weeks), Daily Deuce 20, nuTsie 21 of 1920s, Acclaimed 1268 (1927), aceterrier.com 61 of the 1920s (1927), RYM 2 of 1927
4	Frankie Trumbauer	Singin' the Blues	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1977 (1927), Library of Congress artifact added 2005 (1927), US invalid BB 5 of 1927, POP 5 of 1927, US Billboard 9 - 1927 (6 weeks), nuTsie 49 of 1920s, Acclaimed 1917 (1927), RYM 49 of 1927
5	Jack Smith	Me & My Shadow	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (14 weeks), US invalid BB 4 of 1927, POP 4 of 1927, Music Imprint 11 of 1920s, Brazil 24 of 1927, nuTsie 80 of 1920s, RIAA 289
6	Blind Willie Johnson	Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011 (1927), Library of Congress artifact added 2010 (1927), Peel list 4 of 1927, Acclaimed 1799 (1927), aceterrier.com 57 of the 1920s (1927)
7	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Matchbox Blues	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 (1927), Library of Congress artifact added 2014 (1928), Daily Deuce 5, nuTsie 24 of 1920s, Acclaimed 1061 (1927), RYM 1 of 1927, one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 500
8	Bix Beiderbecke	In a Mist	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 1980 (1927), US invalid BB 10 of 1927, POP 10 of 1927, US Billboard 20 - 1928 (1 week), nuTsie 28 of 1920s, Acclaimed 1477 (1927), aceterrier.com 60 of the 1920s (1927), RYM 7 of 1927
9	Gertrude Lawrence	Someone to Watch Over Me	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 (1927), US Billboard 2 - 1927 (11 weeks), US invalid BB 3 of 1927, POP 7 of 1927, nuTsie 77 of 1920s
10	Sophie Tucker & Ted Lewis	Some of These Days	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (12 weeks), US invalid BB 12 of 1927, POP 12 of 1927, Brazil 20 of 1927, RIAA 314
11	Guy Lombardo	Charmaine	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (15 weeks), US invalid BB 18 of 1927, POP 18 of 1927, Brazil 32 of 1928, nuTsie 83 of 1920s
12	Red Nichols	Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (15 weeks), US invalid BB 19 of 1927, POP 19 of 1927, Brazil 43 of 1928, nuTsie 63 of 1920s
13	Ben Bernie	Ain't She Sweet?	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (12 weeks), US invalid BB 1 of 1927, POP 2 of 1927
14	Ben Selvin	Blue Skies	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (9 weeks), US invalid BB 6 of 1927, POP 6 of 1927, Brazil 37 of 1927
15	Paul Whiteman	In a Little Spanish Town	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (15 weeks), US invalid BB 11 of 1927, POP 11 of 1927, Brazil 21 of 1927
16	Gene Austin	Tonight You Belong to Me	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (13 weeks), US invalid BB 13 of 1927, POP 13 of 1927, Brazil 26 of 1927
17	George Olsen	At Sundown (When Love is Calling Me Home)	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (12 weeks), US invalid BB 14 of 1927, POP 14 of 1927, Brazil 32 of 1927
18	Roger Wolfe Kahn & his Orchestra	Russian Lullaby	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (15 weeks), US invalid BB 17 of 1927, POP 17 of 1927, Brazil 38 of 1928
19	Nick Lucas	I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover	1927	POP 1 of 1927, US Billboard 2 - 1927 (10 weeks), nuTsie 56 of 1920s
20	George Olsen	Varsity Drag	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (7 weeks), US invalid BB 7 of 1927, POP 9 of 1927, Brazil 73 of 1928
21	Moran & Mack	Two Black Crows, Parts 1 & 2 (The Early Bird Catches The Worm)	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (12 weeks), US invalid BB 15 of 1927, POP 15 of 1927
22	Ben Bernie	I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover	1927	POP 1 of 1927, US Billboard 3 - 1927 (8 weeks)
23	Gene Austin	Forgive Me	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (11 weeks), Brazil 38 of 1927
24	Paul Whiteman	My Blue Heaven	1927	US Billboard 1 - 1927 (16 weeks), Brazil 47 of 1928
25	Vernon Dalhart	Lindbergh (Eagle of the USA)	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (5 weeks), US invalid BB 9 of 1927, POP 20 of 1927
26	Vernon Dalhart	Lucky Lindy	1927	US invalid BB 8 of 1927, POP 8 of 1927, US Billboard 11 - 1927 (2 weeks)
27	DeFord Bailey	Pan American Blues	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007 (1927), aceterrier.com 78 of the 1920s (1927)
28	Blind Lemon Jefferson	Black Snake Moan	1927	Library of Congress artifact added 2014 (1928), RYM 1 of 1927
29	Louis Armstrong	Savoy Blues	1927	Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018 (1927), RYM 11 of 1928
30	Nat Shilkret	Flapperette	1927	Peel list 3 of 1927, US Billboard 6 - 1927 (5 weeks)
31	Paul Whiteman	Side By Side	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (8 weeks), nuTsie 65 of 1920s, RYM 90 of 1927
32	George Olsen	Blue Skies	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (10 weeks), nuTsie 69 of 1920s
33	Gastao Formenti	Anoitecer	1927	Brazil 1 of 1927
34	George Olsen	The Best Things in Life Are Free	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (9 weeks), Brazil 66 of 1928
35	Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians	Sweetheart of Sigma Chi	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks), Brazil 77 of 1928
36	Bix Beiderbecke	I'm Coming Virginia	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (7 weeks), Jazz Standard 226, RYM 47 of 1927
37	Vaughn Deleath	Are You Lonesome Tonight?	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (7 weeks), Brazil 86 of 1928
38	Irving Kaufman	The Little White House (At the End of Honeymoon Lane)	1927	US Billboard 6 - 1927 (7 weeks), Brazil 100 of 1928
39	Ipana Troubadors	Mary Lou	1927	US Billboard 7 - 1927 (4 weeks), Brazil 97 of 1928
40	Lewis James	Charmaine	1927	US Billboard 11 - 1927 (3 weeks), Brazil 99 of 1928
41	Sophie Tucker	I Ain't Got Nobody	1927	US Billboard 12 - Sep 1927 (3 weeks), Brazil 63 of 1928
42	Nick Lucas	Side By Side	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (9 weeks), aceterrier.com 54 of the 1920s (1927)
43	Dock Boggs	Country Blues	1927	Daily Deuce 8, Acclaimed 1849 (1927)
44	Nat Shilkret	Why Do I Love You?	1927	US Billboard 9 - 1928 (4 weeks), Jazz Standard 431
45	Paul Whiteman	My Heart Stood Still	1927	US Billboard 11 - 1928 (2 weeks), Jazz Standard 246
46	Ben Bernie	Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	1927	US Billboard 19 - 1928 (1 week), Jazz Standard 339
47	Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians	It Made You Happy When You Made Me Cry	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (8 weeks)
48	Nat Shilkret	All Alone Monday	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (7 weeks)
49	Ruth Etting	Deed I Do	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (7 weeks)
50	Paul Whiteman	When Day is Done	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (12 weeks)
51	Nat Shilkret	Diane (I'm In Heaven When I See You Smile)	1927	US Billboard 2 - Dec 1927 (8 weeks)
52	Paul Whiteman	It All Depends On You	1927	US Billboard 2 - 1927 (8 weeks)
53	Patricio Teixeira	Caboca Bunita	1927	Brazil 2 of 1927
54	Bing Crosby	I'm Comin', Virginia	1927	US Billboard 6 - 1927 (4 weeks), aceterrier.com 23 of the 1920s (1927)
55	Ruth Etting	Shaking the Blues Away	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (8 weeks), RYM 48 of 1927
56	Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra	Riverboat Shuffle	1927	US Billboard 16 - 1927 (2 weeks), aceterrier.com 9 of the 1920s (1927)
57	Paul Whiteman	Washboard Blues	1927	US Billboard 17 - 1928 (1 week), aceterrier.com 30 of the 1920s (1927)
58	Paul Robeson	Deep River	1927	US Billboard 19 - 1927 (1 week), aceterrier.com 58 of the 1920s (1927)
59	Bessie Smith	After You've Gone	1927	US Billboard 7 - 1927 (4 weeks), RYM 23 of 1927
60	Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison	My Carolina Home	1927	US Billboard 7 - 1927 (4 weeks), RYM 82 of 1927
61	Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison	My Blue Ridge Mountain Home	1927	US Billboard 7 - 1928 (8 weeks), RYM 118 of 1927
62	Paul Whiteman	Just A Memory	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (8 weeks)
63	Vincent Lopez	Hello, Bluebird	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks)
64	George Olsen	Someone to Watch Over Me	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks)
65	Jack Smith	There Ain't No Maybe in My Baby's Eyes	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (6 weeks)
66	Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians	Just Another Day Wasted Away (Waiting for You)	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks)
67	Paul Whiteman	Broken Hearted	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (8 weeks)
68	Nat Shilkret	Hallelujah	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks)
69	Johnny Marvin	The Little White House (At the End of Honeymoon Lane)	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (7 weeks)
70	Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike)	Sunday	1927	US Billboard 3 - 1927 (8 weeks)
71	Harry Fragson	Marguerite	1927	France (Historical) 3 of the 1920s (1927)
72	Patricio Teixeira	Casinha Pequenina	1927	Brazil 3 of 1927
73	Jimmie Rodgers	The Soldier's Sweetheart	1927	US Billboard 9 - Dec 1927 (5 weeks), RYM 12 of 1927
74	Louis Armstrong	Potato Head Blues	1927	US Billboard 12 - 1927 (3 weeks), RYM 6 of 1927
75	Bessie Smith	A Good Man Is Hard to Find	1927	US Billboard 13 - 1928 (2 weeks), RYM 10 of 1927
76	Bix Beiderbecke	At the Jazz Band Ball	1927	US Billboard 15 - 1928 (2 weeks), RYM 22 of 1927
77	Jelly Roll Morton	Mr Jelly Lord	1927	POP 16 of 1927, RYM 4 of 1927
78	Alberta Hunter	Beale Street Blues	1927	US Billboard 16 - 1927 (2 weeks), RYM 29 of 1927
79	Louis Armstrong	Keyhole Blues	1927	US Billboard 16 - 1927 (2 weeks), RYM 37 of 1927
80	Riley Puckett	My Carolina Home	1927	US Billboard 16 - 1927 (1 week), RYM 73 of 1934
81	Bessie Smith	Alexander's ragtime band	1927	US Billboard 17 - 1927 (1 week), RYM 27 of 1927
82	Ruth Etting	It All Belongs To Me	1927	US Billboard 17 - 1927 (1 week), RYM 91 of 1927
83	Vernon Dalhart	Mississippi Flood	1927	US Billboard 17 - 1927 (2 weeks), RYM 117 of 1927
84	Ruth Etting	(What Do We Do) On a Dew-Dew-Dewy Day	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (7 weeks)
85	Gene Austin	Ain't She Sweet?	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (6 weeks)
86	Nat Shilkret	One Alone	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (7 weeks)
87	Paul Whiteman	A Shady Tree	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (7 weeks)
88	Ben Selvin	Rio Rita	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (6 weeks)
89	Ben Selvin	In a Little Spanish Town	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (6 weeks)
90	Johnny Marvin	Deed I Do	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (6 weeks)
91	Moran & Mack	Two Black Crows Part 3 & 4 (All About Lions)	1927	US Billboard 4 - 1927 (5 weeks)
92	Bessie Smith	There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight	1927	Scrobulate 67 of halftoned singles club, RYM 27 of 1927
93	Bix Beiderbecke	Thou Swell	1927	Jazz Standard 278, RYM 108 of 1928
94	Nat Shilkret	Me & My Shadow	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (7 weeks)
95	Ruth Etting	Sam, The Old Accordion Man	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (6 weeks)
96	Ben Bernie	Muddy Water	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (6 weeks)
97	Ruth Etting	Thinking of You	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (7 weeks)
98	Gene Austin	Someday Sweetheart	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (6 weeks)
99	George Olsen	Do, Do, Do	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (7 weeks)
100	Nat Shilkret	I Know That You Know	1927	US Billboard 5 - 1927 (7 weeks)

Comments

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15 Aug 2020

Frank Crumit - Frankie and Johnnie

Thanks for putting this data together. It's amazing. Respectfully I wanted topoint out that Frankie and Johnny as listed on here was not recorded in 1921 as far as I can tell, but in 1927, which the chart section lists along with a RYM listing of 1921

The year listed is when the song was a hit, not when it was released. The source chart claims the song came from 1921 so that's the year we tag it with.

In this case we suspect that you are correct and the RYM chart is in error, however we don't have enough evidence to justify modifying the original data.

31 May 2016

#1 & 36 Rhapsody in Blue

Both of these recordings are by Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra with GeorgeGershwin at the piano. The first one is from 1924 and the second one from 1927. I would think the second one should be moved to the 1927 list.

If we change the credit for the 1924 recording to George Gershwin that will (sort of) sort out the confusion

Thanks for telling us the issue

7 Apr 2016

Double Listing - I'm Coming Virginia

Per Joel Whitburn, #91 (Bix Beiderbecke) & #100 (Frankie Trumbauer) are the same. Beiderbecke played on Trumbauer's recording of this.

Data fixed, thanks

25 Jun 2015

Double Listing - Singin' the Blues

#4 & #32 are the same. Bix Beiderbecke played on the Frankie Trumbauerrecording of this. Please disregard the e-mail I just sent previously on this.

Data fixed, thanks

16 Oct 2014

Mary Lou

what are the lyrics to the song Mary Lou by the Ipana Troubadors

23 Apr 2014

Song

Was the song Charmain released in 1929

The earliest hit entries with the song "Charmaine" that we have are Guy Lombardo and Lewis James who both had hits with the song in 1927

25 Feb 2014

Lucky Lindy by Nat Shilkret

Were's the song lucky lindy at???

The only person to have a hit with the song "Lucky Lindy" was Vernon Dalhart in 1927

21 Mar 2013

#15 Black Bottom

This was also a # 3 Billboard Hit. The band was officially billed as Johnny Hamp and his Kentucky Serenaders.

Not according to the Bullfrog data. The song "Black Bottom" is credited to "Johnny Hamp & His Orchestra" and peaked at number 6 - Victor 20101. The number 3 hit was "Black Bottom Stomp" credited to "Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers" - Victor 20221.

11 Dec 2012

I don't love you anymore

I'm looking for a song that might be from 1927. The song was played on episode 9 of ABC's 666 Park Avenue. Here's some lyrics; "I don't love you anymore. Get away, get away from me. I know somethings I never knew before"

11 Oct 2012

Daddy Boy

Searching for a song called Daddy Boy or Hot Daddy Boy. A 95 year old lady here in town knows the lyrics and said she sang it when she was nine while her older sister played it on the piano.

Not having any luck finding it. Thanks in advance. Gary

We have no song with a title of "Daddy Boy" anywhere in the title.

The most obvious candidate would be "Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)" which was written in 1913 and first became a hit in 1918 (for Ernestine Schumann-Heink). Of course it is still a popular song for those with Irish ancestry (and those that want to imagine they have Irish ancestry).

8 Apr 2012

Shepherd of the Hills

I think your correspondent, Frank Leibenberg may be referring to the song which begins, 'Shepherd of the hills I hear you calling'....it was published in 1927.

27 Aug 2011

50 Blue Yodel

This recording is the same as No. 1 in the 1928 list.

You are correct, the data has been changed, thanks for the suggestion