The #1 song in the U.S.A. on this date in history, according to
Billboard
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1919 ... "Oh! What a Pal Was Mary" by Henry Burr
1918 ... "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
1917 ... "Over There" by Nora Bayes
1916 ... "Turn Back the Universe and Give Me Yester Day" by Harry
MacDonough & Orpheus Quartet
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 ... "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray
1911 ... "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" by Columbia Male Quartet
(Peerless Quartet)
1910 ... "Meet Me To-Night in Dreamland" by Henry Burr
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 ... "Love Me and the World Is Mine" by Henry Burr
1905 ... "Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door" by Byron G.
Harlan
1904 ... "Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)" by Haydn
Quartet
1903 ... "Any Rags?" by Arthur Collins
1902 ... "In the Good Old Summer Time" by J.W. Myers
1901 ... "Good Evening, Carrie" by
Dan Quinn
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 ... "Love's Old Sweet Song" by Thomas Bott
1891 ... "Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill" by George J. Gaskin
