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1939 ...
"Scatter-Brain" by Frankie Masters
1938 ...
"Begin the Beguine" by Artie Shaw
1937 ...
"Once in a While" by Tommy Dorsey
1936 ...
"Pennies from Heaven" by Bing Crosby
1935 ...
"You Are My Lucky Star" by Eddy Duchin
1934 ... "Stars Fell on Alabama" by Guy Lombardo
1933 ... "The Last Round-Up" by George Olsen
1932 ... "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" by Bing Crosby
1931 ... "Good Night, Sweetheart" by Wayne King
1930 ... "Body and Soul" by Paul Whiteman
THE 1920s
1929 ... "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" by
Nick Lucas
1928 ... "Sonny Boy" by Al Jolson
1927 ... "Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider" by Red Nichols
1926 ... "Breezin' Along with the Breeze" by Johnny Marvin
1925 ... "Manhattan" by The Knickerbockers [Ben Selvin]
1924 ... "I Wonder What's Become of Sally?" by Al Jolson
1923 ... "That Old Gang of Mine" by Billy Murray & Ed Smalle
1922 ... "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean" by Gallagher & Shean
1921 ... "Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman
1920 ... "Whispering" by Paul Whiteman
THE 1910s
1919 ... "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by
Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
1918 ... "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" by Arthur Fields
1917 ... "Over There" by American Quartet
1916 ... "Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That's Love in
Hawaii)" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1915 ... "They Didn't Believe Me" by Harry MacDonough & Olive Kline
1914 ... "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1913 ... "You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Want to Do It" by Al Jolson
1912 ... "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray
1911 ... "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Arthur Clough & Brunswick
Quartet
1910 ... "In the Valley of Yesterday" by Harry MacDonough
THE 1900s
1909 ... "I've Got Rings on My Fingers" by
Ada Jones
1908 ... "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Harry MacDonough & Haydn
Quartet
1907 ... "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" by Ada Jones & Billy
Murray
1906 ... "Love Me and the World Is Mine" by Henry Burr
1905 ... "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Billy Murray
1904 ... "Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)" by Haydn
Quartet
1903 ... "Good-Bye, Eliza Jane" by Arthur Collins
1902 ... "In the Good Old Summer Time" by J.W. Myers
1901 ... "Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder" by
Harry MacDonough
1900 ... "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" by
George J. Gaskin
THE 1890s
1899 ... "Curse of the Dreamer" by Dan
Quinn
1898 ... "At a Georgia Camp Meeting" by
Dan Quinn
1897 ... "On the Banks of the Wabash" by
George J. Gaskin
1896 ... "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" by
Dan Quinn
1895 ... "The Little Lost Child" by
Dan Quinn
1894 ... "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" by Dan Quinn
1893 ... "The Fatal Wedding" by George J. Gaskin
1892 ... "Near It" by Len Spencer
1891 ... "Turkey in the Straw" by Billy Golden
