The year in music
Best Songs of 1928
Louis Armstrong records “West End Blues”, and Jimmie Rodgers’ “Blue Yodel” makes him country music’s first star.

Play 1928
13 songs

Basin Street Blues
Louis Armstrong

West End Blues
Louis Armstrong

My Melancholy Baby
Gene Austin

Ramona
Gene Austin

Mississippi Mud
Paul Whiteman

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Blind Willie Johnson

It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
Blind Willie Johnson

Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
Blind Willie Johnson

I Wanna Be Loved By You
Helen Kane

In The Jailhouse Now
Jimmie Rodgers

Let's Misbehave
Irving Aaronson

Lovesick Blues
Emmett Miller

Ol' Man River
Paul Robeson
1928 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 13 songs first released in 1928. Big Band, Blues and Jazz lead the year. Blind Willie Johnson, Gene Austin and Louis Armstrong are among the voices of 1928.
Artists of 1928
- Blind Willie Johnson3
- Gene Austin2
- Louis Armstrong2
- Emmett Miller
- Helen Kane
- Irving Aaronson
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Whiteman