*1611-Little Musgrave And Lady Barnard (Matty Groves, Shady Grove)
*1656-The Twa Sisters (Dreadful Wind & Rain)---Eng. trad
*1660-Nottamun Town (Roud #1044)--English Trad.
1854-Hard Times Come Again No More-------Stephen Foster
-1860-I'll Twine Mid The Ringlets (Wildwood Flower)---Irving & Webster
*1879-Red River Valley-----------------------------(trad)
*1880-Pretty Peggy Of Derby (Pretty Peggy, O)---(trad)



*-oldest known publishing
 
 
*1906-St James Infirmary (AKA: The Unfortunate Rake)---(trad)
*1915-Hesitation Blues--------(trad:Smythe, Middleton, Gillham)
*1916-Cold Rain & Snow----------------------------(trad)
 *1917-East Virginia Blues--------------(trad)
*1917-Where Did You Sleep Last Night?-(trad) 
1920-Avalon(instr)------------------------------------Jolson, DeSylva, Rose
 1921-Limehouse Blues(instr)--------Furber, Braham
 1925-Sweet Georgia Brown-----------------Bernie, Pinkard, Casey
 1925-Yes She Do (No She Don't)-------------------De Rose, Trent
 1926-Trouble In Mind-------------------------------Richard M Jones
 1926-White House Blues--------------------Charlie Poole
*1927-Deep Elem (Georgia Black Bottom) Blues------------(trad)
1927-Matchbox Blues--------------------------Blind Lemon Jefferson
*1927-Nine Pound Hammer-----------------------------------(trad)
1927-See That My Grave Is Kept Clean-----Blind Lemon Jefferson
  1928-Big Railroad Blues-----------------------------------Noah Lewis
*1928-Don't Ease Me In---------------(trad-Henry Thomas)
1928-Overseas Stomp--------------Jab Jones, Will Shade
 1929-T For Texas-------------------------------------Jimmie Rodgers
 1929-Viola Lee Blues---------------------------------------Noah Lewis
 1929-Waiting For A Train----------------------------Jimmie Rodgers
 1930-Georgia On My Mind(instr)--------Hoagy Carmichael & Stuart Gorrell
1930-Sitting On Top Of The World---------------Sam Chatmon
 1930-New Minglewood Blues-----------------------------Noah Lewis
 1930-Up A Lazy River--------Hoagy Carmichael & Sidney Arodin 
1931-Blue Yodel No.9------------------------------Jimmie Rodgers
*1931-Lonesome Road Blues---------------------------------(trad)
1932-Miss The Mississippi And You---------------Bill Halley
 1933-Summertime-------------------Heyward, Gershwin, Gershwin
*1934-I Know You Rider----(trad)
*1937-I've Been All Around This World-----------------------(trad)
 1937-Love In Vain-------------------Robert Johnson
 1937-They're Red Hot--------------------------------Robert Johnson
 1938-Deep River Blues---------------------Alton & Rabon Delmore

 *=oldest known publishing/recording
 
  1940-Key To The Highway---------William Charles Segar
 1942-Why Not---------------------------------Aaron Walker
 1946-Get Your Kicks On Route 66------------------Bobby Troup
  1946-Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?-----DeLange, Alter
 1947-Call It Stormy Monday(instr)------------Aaron Walker
1949-Bourbon Street Parade------------------Paul Barbarin 
 1951-The Thrill Is Gone----------------Rick Darnell, Roy Hawkin
 1952-Jambalaya (On The Bayou)-----------Hank Williams
 1953-Mystery Train---------Junior Parker & Sam Phillips 
 1952-Jambalaya (On The Bayou)------------------Hank Williams
-1954-Blue Monk(Instr)--------Thelonius Monk
 1954-Iko Iko---------------------------James "Sugar Boy" Crawford
 1954-San Francisco Bay Blues------------------------Jesse Fuller
 1955-I Want To Be Loved--------------------Willie Dixon
 1957-Farther Up The Road-------Deadric Malone
 1957-Freight Train, Freight Train-------------------Elizabeth Cotten
 1957-Rockin' Pneumonia-----------------John Vincent, Huey Smith
 1958-Beat It On Down The Line--------------------------Jesse Fuller
 1959-Mr PC(instr)----------------------------John Coltrane
 1959-So What(instr)------------------------------------------------Miles Davis
 1959-The Long Black Veil-------------------Danny Dill & Marijohn Wilkin
 1961-Bring It On Home To Me--------Sam Cooke
 1961-Crazy(instr)-------------------------------------------------Willie Nelson
 1961-Turn On Your Lovelight--------Deadric Malone & Joseph Scott
 1962-Funny How Time Slips Away---W Nelson
 1962-Hey Joe------------Billy Roberts
 1962-Morning Dew---------------------------Bonnie Dobson
 1963-Blue Bossa-----------------------------Kenny Dorham
 1963-I Saw Her Standing There--------Lennon,McCartney
 1963-Nightlife---W Nelson,W Breeland, P Buskirk
 1963-On Broadway----------------------------Mann, Weill, Lieber, Stoller
 1964-Song For My Father---------Horace Silver
 1965-Nowhere Man--------Lennon McCartney
 1965-Shake Sugaree-----------------------------------Elizabeth Cotten
 1966-Steppin' Out----------------James Bracken
 1967- Born Under A Bad Sign----------Albert King
 1966-Footprints ------------Wayne Shorter
 1967-At The Dark End Of The Street------Dan Penn,Chips Moman
 1967-Cryptical Envelopment
 1967-That's It For The Other One
 1968-Dear Prudence-------Lennon, McCartney
 1968-Sing Me Back Home-----Merle Haggard
 
 1970-Friend Of The Devil
 1970-Sugar Magnolia
 1970-Truckin'
 1970-Who Knows--------------------------------------Jimi Hendrix
 1971-Are You Ready For The Country?------------Neil Young
 1971-Sitting In Limbo------Plummer Bright, James Chambers
 1972-This Masquerade-----------------------Leon Russell
 1973-Guilty(instr)---------------------Randy Newman
 1974-Our Paths May Never Cross--------------------Merle Haggard
 1975-Wish You Were Here----Waters & Gilmore
  1976-Meet The Boys On The Battlefront-------------Landry/Rhinelander
 1981-Garbage Man Blues----------------------------------Buddy Guy
 1990-Seven Turns--------Dickey Betts
 1991-Tanqueray-------------------Johnnie Johnson, Keith Richards
 1992-Key To My Heart---------Doug Sahm
 1992-New Madrid--------Farrar, Tweety
 1992-Sandusky-----------Farrar, Tweedy
 1994-Back Where It All Begins----Dickey Betts
 1994-Congo Square-----------------------------Sonny Landreth
 2005-She Is My Everything---------------------------------John Prine
 2007-Got Me A Woman---------Paul Kennerly


 *=oldest known publishing/recording