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Billboard
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1919 ... "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" by
John Steel
1918 ... "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
1917 ... "Good-Bye Broadway, Hello France" by American Quartet
1916 ... "If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly (It Would Still Be Kelly to Me)" by
Marguerite Farrell
1915 ... "Hello, Frisco!" by Olive Kline & Reinald Werrenrath
1914 ... "By the Beautiful Sea" by Ada Jones & Billy Watkins
1913 ... "You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Want to Do It" by Al Jolson
1912 ... "I Love You Truly" by Elsie Baker
1911 ... "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1910 ... "Every Little Moment" by Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle
Marsh
THE 1900s
1909 ... "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" by
Henry Burr
1908 ... "Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine" by Ada Jones & Billy
Murray
1907 ... "Harrigan" by Billy Murray
1906 ... "The Good Old U.S.A." by Byron G. Harlan
1905 ... "Dearie" by Corrine Morgan & Haydn Quartet
1904 ... "Alexander" by Billy Murray
1903 ... "Harrah for Baffin's Bay" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1902 ... "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" by Byron G. Harlan
1901 ... "Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee Dance" by
Cal Stewart
1900 ... "Ma Tiger Lily" by
Arthur Collins
THE 1890s
1899 ... "Gypsy Love Song" by William F.
Hooley
1898 ... "I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough (Laughing Song)" by
Cal Stewart
1897 ... "There's a Little Star Shining for You" by
Dan Quinn
1896 ... "Down in Poverty Row" by
George J. Gaskin
1895 ... "The Band Played On" by
Dan Quinn
1894 ... "My Pearl Is a Bowery Girl" by Dan Quinn
1893 ... "Daisy Bell" by Dan Quinn
1892 ... "Michael Casey Taking the Census" by Russell Hunting
1891 ... "Pat Kelly as a Police Justice" by Dan Kelly
1890 ... "Washington Post" by U.S. Marine Band
