1940s

Top 20

1. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1 — Woody Guthrie (1940)
2. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 2 — Woody Guthrie (1940)
3. Billie Holiday — Billie Holiday (1947)
4. The Midnight Special (And Other Southern Prison Songs) — Lead Belly (1941)
5. Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday — Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday (1941)
6. An Album Of Outstanding Arrangements — Glenn Miller (1944)
7. The Lonesome Road — Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1941)
8. The Voice Of Frank Sinatra — Frank Sinatra (1946)
9. Merry Christmas — Bing Crosby (1945)
10. Chansons Des Cafés De Paris — Édith Piaf (1948)
11. Bird Blows The Blues — Charlie Parker (1949)
12. Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five — Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1946)
13. The King Cole Trio — The King Cole Trio (1944)
14. Southern Exposure — Josh White (1941)
15. Liberian Suite — Duke Ellington And His Orchestra (1948)
16. Guitar Solos — Andrés Segovia (1949)
17. La Guitarra — Pepe Badajoz (1949)
18. Boogie Woogie In Blue — Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson (1944)
19. La Rue Pigalle — Édith Piaf (1947)
20. Her Second Album Of Piano Solos With Drums Acc. — Hazel Scott (1942)

1940

• Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1 — Woody Guthrie
• Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 2 — Woody Guthrie
• Empress Of The Blues — Bessie Smith
• Arnold Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire — Arnold Schoenberg
• King Louis — Louis Armstrong

1941

• The Midnight Special (And Other Southern Prison Songs) — Lead Belly
• Teddy Wilson - Billie Holiday — Teddy Wilson And His Orchestra Featuring Billie Holiday
• The Lonesome Road — Sister Rosetta Tharpe
• Southern Exposure — Josh White
• 8 To The Bar (Two Piano Boogie Woogie For Dancing) — Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons

1942

• Her Second Album Of Piano Solos With Drums Acc. — Hazel Scott
• Blues Till Dawn — Libby Holman
• Work Songs Of The U.S.A. — Lead Belly
• Holiday Inn (Song Hits From The Paramount Picture) — Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire
• Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book — Miklós Rózsa

1943

• Songs By Lead Belly: Accompanied By Sonny Terry — Lead Belly
• Songs Of Free Men — Paul Robeson
• Chicago Jazz Classics — Benny Goodman And His Boys
• Oklahoma! — The Original Broadway Cast
• The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France - Volume 2 — The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France

1944

• An Album Of Outstanding Arrangements — Glenn Miller
• The King Cole Trio — The King Cole Trio
• Boogie Woogie In Blue — Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson
• Up Swing — Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw
• Woody Guthrie — Woody Guthrie

1945

• Merry Christmas — Bing Crosby
• Strange Fruit — Josh White
• Black, Brown And Beige (1945) — Duke Ellington
• Hot Jazz — The Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France
• Signs Of The Zodiac — Mary Lou Williams

1946

• The Voice Of Frank Sinatra — Frank Sinatra
• Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five — Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five
• Calypso — Lord Invader And Lord Beginner With Felix And His Internationals
• Schubert: Symphony No. 9 In C Major (The Great) — Bruno Walter & New York Philharmonic
• Spirituals — Paul Robeson

1947

• Billie Holiday — Billie Holiday
• La Rue Pigalle — Édith Piaf
• Blues — Lonnie Johnson
• Mahler: Symphony No. 5 — Bruno Walter & New York Philharmonic
• Souvenir Album — Ella Fitzgerald

1948

• Chansons Des Cafés De Paris — Édith Piaf
• Liberian Suite — Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
• Stravinsky: Suite From Petrouchka — Igor Stravinsky & The Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York
• Charlie Parker No. 1 — Charlie Parker
• A Presentation Of Progressive Jazz — Stan Kenton And His Orchestra

1949

• Bird Blows The Blues — Charlie Parker
• Guitar Solos — Andrés Segovia
• La Guitarra — Pepe Badajoz
• Charlie Parker No. 3 — Charlie Parker
• You're My Thrill — Doris Day