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1939 ...
"Scatter-Brain" by Frankie Masters
1938 ...
"I Won't Tell a Soul (I Love You)" by Andy Kirk
1937 ...
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" by Fred Astaire
1936 ...
"Pennies from Heaven" by Bing Crosby
1935 ...
"A Little Bit Independent" by Fats Waller
1934 ... "The Object of My Affection" by Jimmie Grier
1933 ... "Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" by Eddy Duchin
1932 ... "Night and Day" by Fred Astaire with Leo Reisman
1931 ... "Tiger Rag" by The Mills Brothers
1930 ... "You're Driving Me Crazy! (What Did I Do?)" by Guy Lombardo
THE 1920s
1929 ... "Great Day" by Paul Whiteman
1928 ... "Sonny Boy" by Al Jolson
1927 ... "My Blue Heaven" by Gene Austin
1926 ... "The Birth of the Blues" by Paul Whiteman
1925 ... "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart
1924 ... "Somebody Loves Me" by Paul Whiteman
1923 ... "No, No, Nora" by Eddie Cantor
1922 ... "Three O'Clock in the Morning" by Paul Whiteman
1921 ... "Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones
1920 ... "Whispering" by Paul Whiteman
THE 1910s
1919 ... "Oh! What a Pal Was Mary" by Henry Burr
1918 ... "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
1917 ... "Over There" by American Quartet
1916 ... "The Sunshine of Your Smile" by John McCormack
1915 ... "They Didn't Believe Me" by Harry MacDonough & Olive Kline
1914 ... "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" by American Quartet
1913 ... "Peg O' My Heart" by Charles Harrison
1912 ... "Everybody Two-Step" by American Quartet
1911 ... "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" by Columbia Male Quartet
(Peerless Quartet)
1910 ... "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" by Bert Williams
THE 1900s
1909 ... "Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet" by Haydn Quartet
1908 ... "Sunbonnet Sue" by Harry MacDonough & Haydn Quartet
1907 ... "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" by Ada Jones & Billy
Murray
1906 ... "Let It Alone" by Bert Williams
1905 ... "Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" by Byron G.
Harlan
1904 ... "You're the Flower of My Heart, Sweet Adeline" by Columbia Male
Quartet (Peerless Quartet)
1903 ... "Any Rags?" by Arthur Collins
1902 ... "Under the Bamboo Tree" by Arthur Collins
1901 ... "Any Old Place I Hang My Hat Is 'Home, Sweet Home' to Me" by
Will Denny
1900 ... "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" by
George J. Gaskin
THE 1890s
1899 ... "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You" by Arthur Collins
1898 ... "My Old New Hampshire Home" by
George J. Gaskin
1897 ... "On the Banks of the Wabash" by
George J. Gaskin
1896 ... "A Hot Time in the Old Town" 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 ... "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow" by Dan Quinn
1891 ... "Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill" by George J. Gaskin
