The #1 song in the U.S.A. on this date in history, according to
Billboard
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1919 ... "I'll Say She Does" by
Al Jolson
1918 ... "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
1917 ... "Till the Clouds Roll By" by Anna Wheaton & James Harrod
1916 ... "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Prince's Orchestra
1915 ... "My Bird of Paradise" by Peerless Quartet
1914 ... "By the Beautiful Sea" by Heidelberg Quintet
1913 ... "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" by Chauncey Olcott
1912 ... "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" by Bob Roberts
1911 ... "Mother Machree" by John McCormack
1910 ... "Casey Jones" by Billy Murray & American Quartet
THE 1900s
1909 ... "The Yama Yama Man" by Ada Jones
& Victor Light Opera Co.
1908 ... "Are You Sincere?" by Elise Stevenson
1907 ... "I Pagliacci - Vesti La Giubba (On With the Party)" by Enrico
Caruso
1906 ... "Nobody" by Bert Williams
1905 ... "The Preacher and the Bear" by Arthur Collins
1904 ... "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" by Billy Murray
1903 ... "Come Down, Ma Ev'ning Star" by Henry Burr
1902 ... "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" by Arthur Collins
1901 ... "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" by
Byron G. Harlan
1900 ... "Ma Tiger Lily" by
Len Spencer
THE 1890s
1899 ... "My Wild Irish Rose" by Albert
Campbell
1898 ... "She's More to Be Pitied than Censured" by
Steve Porter
1897 ... "The Stars and Stripes Forever" by
Sousa's Band
1896 ... "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" by J.W. Myers
1895 ... "The Band Played On" by
Dan Quinn
1894 ... "Lindley, Does You Love Me?" by Dan Quinn
1893 ... "Two Little Girls in Blue" by J.W. Myers
1892 ... "The Old Folks at Home" by Len Spencer
1891 ... "The Mocking Bird" by John Yorke Atlee
1890 ... "Semper Fidelis" by U.S. Marine Band
