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this date in history, according to
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1939 ...
"Three Little Fishies" by Kay Kyser
1938 ...
"Cathedral in the Pines" by Shep Fields
1937 ...
"Carelessly" by Teddy Wilson featuring Billie Holiday
1936 ...
"The Glory of Love" by Benny Goodman
1935 ...
"Life Is a Song" by Ruth Etting
1934 ... "Cocktails for Two" by Duke Ellington
1933 ... "Stormy Weather" by Leo Reisman featuring Harold Arlen
1932 ... "Paradise" by Guy Lombardo
1931 ... "Out of Nowhere" by Bing Crosby
1930 ... "When It's Springtime in the Rockies" by The Hilo Hawaiian
Orchestra
THE 1920s
1929 ... "Honey" by Rudy Vallee
1928 ... "Ramona" by Gene Austin
1927 ... "Ain't She Sweet?" by Ben Bernie
1926 ... "Always" by George Olsen
1925 ... "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart
1924 ... "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" by Wendell Hall
1923 ... "Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses" by Carl Fenton
1922 ... "Angel Child" by Al Jolson
1921 ... "Look for the Silver Lining" by Marion Harris
1920 ... "Swanee" by Al Jolson
THE 1910s
1919 ... "Beautiful Ohio" by
Henry Burr
1918 ... "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (for Her Daddy Over There)" by
Henry Burr
1917 ... "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (and Smile, Smile,
Smile)" by Knickerbocker Quartet
1916 ... "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" by Prince's Orchestra
1915 ... "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Peerless Quartet
1914 ... "I Love the Ladies" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1913 ... "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" by Al Jolson
1912 ... "When I Was Twenty-One and You Were Sweet Sixteen" by Henry
Burr & Albert Campbell
1911 ... "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" by Blanche Ring
1910 ... "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" by Billy Murray & Haydn
Quartet
THE 1900s
1909 ... "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by
Harry MacDonough & "Miss Watson" (Elise Stevenson)
1908 ... "The Glow-Worm" by Victor Orchestra
1907 ... "School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)" by Byron G.
Harlan
1906 ... "The Grand Old Rag" by Billy Murray
1905 ... "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" by Henry Burr
1904 ... "Blue Bell" by Frank Stanley & Byron G. Harlan
1903 ... "In the Good Old Summer Time" by Sousa's Band
1902 ... "On a Sunday Afternoon" by J.W. Myers
1901 ... "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" by
Harry MacDonough & Grace Spencer
1900 ... "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" by
Jere Mahoney
THE 1890s
1899 ... "Hello! Ma Baby" by Len Spencer
1898 ... "Uncle Josh's Arrival in New York" by
Cal Stewart
1897 ... "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" by
George J. Gaskin
1896 ... "Dat New Bully" by Len Spencer
1895 ... "Cocoanut Dance" by
Vess Ossman
1894 ... "Yankee Doodle" by Vess Ossman
1893 ... "After the Ball" by George J. Gaskin
1892 ... "The Song That Reached My Heart" by Joe Natus
1891 ... "The Laughing Song" by George Washington Johnson
