1940s

Top 20

1. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 1 - Woody Guthrie (1940)
2. Billie Holiday - Billie Holiday (1947)
3. Dust Bowl Ballads - Volume 2 - Woody Guthrie (1940)
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. Bird Blows The Blues - Charlie Parker (1949)
10. Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five (1946)
11. Chansons Des Cafés De Paris - Édith Piaf (1948)
12. The King Cole Trio - The King Cole Trio (1944)
13. Merry Christmas - Bing Crosby (1945)
14. Liberian Suite - Duke Ellington And His Orchestra (1948)
15. Guitar Solos - Andrés Segovia (1949)
16. Southern Exposure - Josh White (1941)
17. Her Second Album Of Piano Solos With Drums Acc. - Hazel Scott (1942)
18. La Guitarra - Pepe Badajoz (1949)
19. Calypso - Lord Invader And Lord Beginner With Felix And His Internationals (1946)
20. Songs By Lead Belly: Accompanied By Sonny Terry - Lead Belly (1944)

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