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1939 ...
"Stairway to the Stars" by Glenn Miller
1938 ...
"A-Tisket, A-Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb
1937 ...
"It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane" by Guy Lombardo
1936 ...
"There's a Small Hotel" by Hal Kemp
1935 ...
"In a Little Gypsy Tea Room" by Bob Crosby
1934 ... "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble
1933 ... "Shadow Waltz" by Bing Crosby
1932 ... "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town" by Ted Lewis
1931 ... "I Found a Million-Dollar Baby (in a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store)" by
Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
1930 ... "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" by Nat Shilkret
THE 1920s
1929 ... "Pagan Love Song" by Copley
Plaza Orchestra (Bob Haring)
1928 ... "Ramona" by Gene Austin
1927 ... "Two Black Crows-Parts 1 & 2 (The Early Bird Catches the Worm)" by
Moran & Mack
1926 ... "Valencia" by Paul Whiteman
1925 ... "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Ben Bernie
1924 ... "California, Here I Come!" by Al Jolson
1923 ... "Down Hearted Blues" by Bessie Smith
1922 ... "Do It Again" by Paul Whiteman
1921 ... "Make Believe" by Nora Bayes
1920 ... "When My Baby Smiles at Me" by Ted Lewis & His Band
THE 1910s
1919 ... "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by
Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
1918 ... "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr
1917 ... "For Me and My Gal" by Van & Schenk
1916 ... "Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)" by
Henry Burr
1915 ... "A Little Bit of Heaven ('Shure, They Call It Ireland')" by George
MacFarlane
1914 ... "The Song That Stole My Heart Away" by Henry Burr
1913 ... "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" by Henry Burr & Albert
Campbell
1912 ... "Ragging the Baby to Sleep" by Al Jolson
1911 ... "I'm Falling in Love with Someone" by John McCormack
1910 ... "Casey Jones" by Billy Murray & American Quartet
THE 1900s
1909 ... "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada
Jones & Billy Murray
1908 ... "The Glow-Worm" by Lucy Isabelle Marsh
1907 ... "School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)" by Byron G.
Harlan
1906 ... "The Grand Old Rag" by Billy Murray
1905 ... "The Preacher and the Bear" by Arthur Collins
1904 ... "Toyland" by Corrine Morgan & Haydn Quartet
1903 ... "Hiawatha" by Harry MacDonough
1902 ... "Way Down in Old Indiana" by J.W. Myers
1901 ... "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" by
Byron G. Harlan, Joe Belmont, Frank Stanley, & Florodora Girls
1900 ... "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" by
Steve Porter
THE 1890s
1899 ... "My Wild Irish Rose" by George J. Gaskin
1898 ... "I Don't Like No Cheap Man" by
Len Spencer
1897 ... "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" by
George J. Gaskin
1896 ... "A Hot Time on the Levee" by
Len Spencer with Vess Ossman
1895 ... "El Capitan March" by
Sousa's Band
1894 ... "Dem Golden Slippers" by Silas Leachman
1893 ... "My Country 'Tis of Thee" by Jules Levy
1892 ... "Michael Casey at the Telephone" by Russell Hunting
1891 ... "The Whistling Coon" by George Washington Johnson
