His ratings, according to Rolling Stone.
1. Professor Longhair Tipitina (1953)
2. Ray Charles I Got a Woman (1954)
3. Big Joe Turner Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)
4. LaVern Baker Tweedlee Dee (1954)
5. Champion Jack Dupree Junker's Blues (1958)
6. The Drifters There Goes My Baby (1959)
7. Ray Charles What I'd Say (1959)
8. Solomon Burke If You Need Me (1963)
9. Booker T. & the MG's Green Onions (1962)
10. Wilson Pickett In the Midnight Hour (1965)
11. Aretha Franklin Respect (1967)
12. Dusty Springfield Son of a Preacher Man (1969)
13. Dr. John Iko Iko (1972)
14. Doug Sahm (Is Anybody Going to) San Antone (1973)
15. Willie Nelson Bloody Mary Morning (1974)
16. The Sanford/Townsend Band Smoke From a Distant Fire (1977)
17. James Booker Winin' Boy Blues (1978)
18. Etta James Take It to the Limit (1978)
19. Dire Straits Lady Writer (1979)
20. Bob Dylan Gotta Serve Somebody (1979)