Edward Foote Gardner’s book, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century, 1900-1949 tackled the task of crafting charts for the popular songs of the pre-rock era. He developed a top 20 chart for each month of every year from 1900-1949. These are the top songs for each year based on that book.
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- 1900: George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen”
- 1901: Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray”
- 1902: J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon”
- 1903: Bryon G. Harlan “Always in the Way”
- 1904: Bryon G. Harlan with Frank Stanley “Blue Bell”
- 1905: Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette) “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree”
- 1906: Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine”
- 1907: Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)”
- 1908: Haydn Quartet “Sunbonnet Sue”
- 1909: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
- 1910: Henry Burr “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland”
- 1911: Arthur Collins and Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
- 1912: Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee”
- 1913: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)”
- 1914: Billy Murray “He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile”
- 1915: George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)”
- 1916: Billy Murray “Pretty Baby”
- 1917: American Quartet “Over There”
- 1918: Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles”
- 1919: Henry Burr with Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again”
- 1920: Paul Whiteman “Whispering”
- 1921: Ted Lewis “All by Myself”
- 1922: Paul Whiteman “Three O’Clock in the Morning”
- 1923: Billy Murray with Ed Smalle “That Old Gang of Mine”
- 1924: Paul Whiteman “What’ll I Do?”
- 1925: Al Jolson “All Alone”
- 1926: George Olsen with Fran Frey, Bob Rice, & Edward Joyce “Always”
- 1927: Guy Lombardo with Weston Vaughan “Charmaine”
- 1928: Gene Austin “Ramona”
- 1929: Leo Reisman with Lew Conrad “The Wedding of the Painted Doll”
- 1930: Ben Selvin “When It’s Springtime in the Rockies”
- 1931: Kate Smith “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain”
- 1932: Ted Lewis “In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town”
- 1933: Joe Green’s Novelty Orchestra “In the Valley of the Moon”
- 1934: Ray Noble with Al Bowlly “The Old Spinning Wheel”
- 1935: Glen Gray with Kenny Sargent “When I Grow Too Old to Dream”
- 1936: Shep Fields “In the Chapel in the Moonlight”
- 1937: Guy Lombardo “When My Dream Boat Comes Home”
- 1938: Larry Clinton with Bea Wain “My Reverie”
- 1939: Will Glahe “Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel)”
- 1940: Glenn Miller with Marion Hutton “The Woodpecker Song”
- 1941: Jimmy Dorsey with Bob Eberly “Maria Elena”
- 1942: Vaughn Monroe “When the Lights Go on Again All Over the World”
- 1943: The Mills Brothers “Paper Doll”
- 1944: Dinah Shore “I’ll Walk Alone”
- 1945: Les Brown with Doris Day “Sentimental Journey”
- 1946: The Ink Spots “The Gypsy”
- 1947: The Harmonicats “Peg O’ My Heart”
- 1948: Jon Steele & Sandra “My Happiness”
- 1949: Perry Como “Some Enchanted Evening”
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First posted 4/6/2019; last updated 12/22/2022.
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