The year in music
Best Songs of 1947
Hank Williams has his first hit with “Move It on Over”, Roy Brown records “Good Rockin’ Tonight”, and T-Bone Walker “Call It Stormy Monday”.

Play 1947
12 songs

Huggin' and Chalkin'
Hoagy Carmichael

Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk

How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
Dick Haymes

I'll Dance at Your Wedding
Buddy Clark

Linda
Buddy Clark

Blue Moon of Kentucky
Bill Monroe

Feudin' and Fightin'
Dorothy Shay

I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
Art Mooney

Near You
Francis Craig

Open the Door, Richard
Count Basie

Pass That Peace Pipe
Margaret Whiting

Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Tex Williams
1947 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 12 songs first released in 1947. Big Band, Swing and Jazz lead the year. Buddy Clark, Art Mooney and Bill Monroe are among the voices of 1947.
Artists of 1947
- Buddy Clark2
- Art Mooney
- Bill Monroe
- Count Basie
- Dick Haymes
- Dorothy Shay
- Francis Craig
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Margaret Whiting
- Tex Williams
- Thelonious Monk