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Billboard
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1919 ... "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" by
John Steel
1918 ... "Over There" by Enrico Caruso
1917 ... "Over There" by Peerless Quartet
1916 ... "Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" by
Charles Harrison
1915 ... "Close to My Heart" by Henry Burr & Albert Campbell
1914 ... "Ballin' the Jack" by Prince's Orchestra
1913 ... "You Made Me Love You, I Didn't Want to Do It" by Al Jolson
1912 ... "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" by Heidelberg Quintet
1911 ... "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan
1910 ... "Every Little Moment" by Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle
Marsh
THE 1900s
1909 ... "I've Got Rings on My Fingers" by
Blanche Ring
1908 ... "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Harry MacDonough & Haydn
Quartet
1907 ... "Harrigan" by Billy Murray
1906 ... "Love Me and the World Is Mine" by Albert Campbell
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 ... "The Tale of the Bumble Bee" by
Harry MacDonough
1900 ... "Because" by
Haydn Quartet
THE 1890s
1899 ... "Curse of the Dreamer" by Dan
Quinn
1898 ... "She Was Happy Till She Met You" 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 ... "Casey at Denny Murphy's Wake" by Russell Hunting
1893 ... "Daisy Bell" by Dan Quinn
1892 ... "Michael Casey Taking the Census" by Russell Hunting
1891 ... "Turkey in the Straw" by Billy Golden
1890 ... "The Thunderer" by U.S. Marine Band
