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this date in history, according to
Billboard
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1919 ... "Till We Meet Again" by Nicholas
Orlando's Orchestra
1918 ... "Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (for Her Daddy Over There)" by
Henry Burr
1917 ... "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag (and Smile, Smile,
Smile)" by Knickerbocker Quartet
1916 ... "I Love a Piano" by Billy Murray
1915 ... "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey
1914 ... "Rebecca of Sunny-brook Farm" by American Quartet
1913 ... "When I Lost You" by Henry Burr
1912 ... "That Haunting Melody" by Al Jolsonw
1911 ... "I Love the Name of Mary" by Will Oakland
1910 ... "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" by Billy Murray & Haydn
Quartet
THE 1900s
1909 ... "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by
Harry MacDonough & "Miss Watson" (Elise Stevenson)
1908 ... "Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?" by Ada Jones
& Billy Murray
1907 ... "Because You're You" by Harry MacDonough & Elise Stevenson
1906 ... "So Long, Mary" by Corrine Morgan
1905 ... "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" by Henry Burr
1904 ... "Navajo" by Billy Murray
1903 ... "In the Good Old Summer Time" by Sousa's Band
1902 ... "On a Sunday Afternoon" by J.W. Myers
1901 ... "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" by
Harry MacDonough & Grace Spencer
1900 ... "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" by Jere Mahoney
THE 1890s
1899 ... "Hello, Ma Baby" by Arthur Collins
1898 ... "Break the News to Mother" by
George J. Gaskin
1897 ... "My Mother Was a Lady" by
Dan Quinn
1896 ... "Dat New Bully" by Len Spencer
1895 ... "The Sidewalks of New York" by J.W. Myers
1894 ... "Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye" by Edward M. Favor
1893 ... "After the Ball" by George J. Gaskin
1892 ... "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette
1891 ... "The Laughing Song" by George Washington Johnson
