Thursday, December 15, 2022

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1900-1909

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1900-1909

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1900 to 1909. Songs could have hit #1 on either of these charts:

Numbers following the letter codes indicate how many weeks the song spent at #1 on that chart. Links go to specific lists of the biggest songs of all time for that chart. The Gardner charts are monthly and not weekly so the #of weeks has been generated by multiplying the song’s number of months at #1 by 4. Also, the Gardner book indicates only the song title and not a specific artist so the artists identified here are the ones that have the highest ranked Dave’s Music Database version, hit #1 on the Billboard chart as well, and/or are spotlighted as the top version by Gardner.

Click here to access a full list of #1 songs from 1890 to present. See other chart-based lists here.

1900:

  1. 1/1: Arthur Collins “I’d Leave My Happy Home for You” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  2. 2/3: Arthur Collins “Mandy Lee” (BB: 6)
  3. 3/1: Steve Porter “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (GA: 8, BB: 6, SM: 5)
  4. 3/17: George J. Gaskin “When Chloe Sings a Song” (BB: 3)
  5. Mar: Jere Mahoney “A Bird in a Gilded Cage” (GA: 8, BB: 5)
  6. 4/17: Jere Mahoney “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (BB: 5)
  7. 5/15: Bryon G. Harlan “The Blue and the Gray (The Mother’s Gift to Her Country)” (GA: 16, SM: 6)
  8. 7/28: Len Spencer “Ma Tiger Lily” (BB: 5)
  9. 8/15: Dan Quinn “Strike Up the Band, Here Comes a Sailor” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  10. 9/1: Arthur Collins “Ma Tiger Lily” (BB: 6)
  11. 9/15: Joseph Natus “The Fatal Rose of Red” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  12. 10/13: Haydn Quartet “Because” (BB: 4)
  13. 10/15: Harry MacDonough “I Can’t Tell You Why I Love You But I Do” (GA: 8, SM: 3)
  14. 11/10: George J. Gaskin “When You Were Sweet Sixteen” (BB: 8)
  15. 12/1: Jere Mahoney “For Old Times’ Sake” (GA: 4, SM: 2)

1901:

  1. 1/5: Albert Campbell “Ma Blushin’ Rosie” (BB: 7)
  2. 2/1: Arthur Collins & Joe Natus “Coon! Coon! Coon!” (GA: 4, SM: 3)
  3. 2/23: John Philip Sousa “The Stars and Stripes Forever” (BB: 3)
  4. 3/15: Big Four Quartet “Goodbye Dolly Gray” (GA: 12, SM: 7, BB: 3)
  5. 3/16: S.H. Dudley “When Reuben Comes to Town” (BB: 3)
  6. 5/11: Harry MacDonough with Grace Spencer “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” (BB: 7)
  7. 6/29: Bryon G. Harlan with Frank Stanley, Joe Belmont, & the Florodora Girls “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” (BB: 3)
  8. 7/10: Bryon G. Harlan “Hello Central, Give Me Heaven” (GA: 12, BB: 5, SM: 3)
  9. 7/20: Cal Stewart “Jim Lawson’s Horse Trade with Deacon Witherspoon” (BB: 3)
  10. 8/1: S.H. Dudley & Harry MacDonough “Sweet Annie Moore” (SM: 1)
  11. 9/14: J.W. Myers “In the Shade of the Palm” (BB: 1)
  12. 9/21: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee Dance” (BB: 3)
  13. 10/1: Bert Williams & George Walker “Good Morning, Carrie” (BB: 5, SM: 4)
  14. 10/12: Harry MacDonough “The Tale of a Bumblebee” (BB: 4)
  15. Oct: Dan Quinn “Good Evening, Carrie” (GA: 8, BB: 3)
  16. 11/9: Harry MacDonough “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” (BB: 3)
  17. 12/1: Harry MacDonough “I’ll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  18. 12/21: Will Denny “Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me” (BB: 4)

1902:

  1. 1/1: Sousa’s Band “Creole Belles” (SM: 6)
  2. Jan: Metropolitan Orchestra “Creole Bells” GA: 12)
  3. 3/1: Len Spencer “The Arkansaw Traveler” (BB: 11)
  4. 4/1: J.W. Myers “Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield (Alabama)” (GA: 4, SM: 1)
  5. 4/15: J. Aldrich Libbey “On a Sunday Afternoon” (SM: 6)
  6. 5/10: J.W. Myers “On a Sunday Afternoon” (GA: 12, BB: 6)
  7. 6/21: J.W. Myers “Way Down in Old Indiana” (BB: 5)
  8. 7/15: Dan Quinn “Rip Van Winkle Was a Lucky Man” (SM: 1)
  9. 7/26: Arthur Collins “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (BB: 8, GA: 4)
  10. 8/1: Arthur Collins “Please Go ‘Way and Let Me Sleep” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  11. 9/1: Dan Quinn “Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home” (SM: 1)
  12. 9/15: Harry MacDonough “In the Good Old Summertime” (SM: 5)
  13. 9/20: Bryon G. Harlan “The Mansion of Aching Hearts” (BB: 3)
  14. 10/11: Harry MacDonough “The Mansion of Aching Hearts” (BB: 4)
  15. 11/8: J.W. Myers “In the Good Old Summertime” (BB: 7)
  16. 12/1: Dan Quinn “Mr. Dooley” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  17. 12/27: Arthur Collins “Under the Bamboo Tree” (GA: 12, SM: 6, BB: 3)

1903:

  1. 1/1: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Down Where the Wurzburger Flows” (BB: 5, GA: 4, SM: 2)
  2. 2/21: Mina Hickman “Come Down Ma Evening Star” (BB: 5)
  3. 3/28: Haydn Quartet “In the Good Old Summertime” (GA: 8, BB: 6)
  4. 5/1: Harry MacDonough “Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha)” (GA: 12, SM: 6, BB: 4)
  5. 5/9: John Philip Sousa’s Band with Harry MacDonough & S.H. Dudley “In the Good Old Summertime” (GA: 8, BB: 4)
  6. 6/6: Harry MacDonough with John Bieling “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” (BB: 4)
  7. 8/1: Henry Burr “Come Down Ma Evening Star” (BB: 4)
  8. 8/29: Cal Stewart “Uncle Josh on an Automobile” (BB: 4)
  9. 8/1: Mina Hickman “Congo Love Song” (GA: 8, SM: 5)
  10. 9/26: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Hurrah for Baffin’s Bay” (BB: 5)
  11. 10/15: Bryon G. Harlan “Always in the Way” (GA: 8, SM: 3)
  12. 10/31: Arthur Collins “Goodbye Eliza Jane” (BB: 4)
  13. 12/1: Billy Murray “Bedelia” (SM: 7, BB: 3)
  14. 12/5: Arthur Collins “Any Rags?” (BB: 5)

1904:

  1. 1/9: Haydn Quartet “Bedelia” (GA: 12, BB: 7)
  2. 3/15: Billy Murray “Navajo” (GA: 8, BB: 5, SM: 3)
  3. 3/19: Richard Jose “Silver Threads Among the Gold” (BB: 4)
  4. May: Bryon G. Harlan & Frank Stanley “Blue Bell” (GA: 12, BB: 3)
  5. May: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Blue Bell” (GA: 12, SM: 5, BB: 4)
  6. 7/9: Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Toyland” (BB: 2)
  7. 7/15: Billy Murray “Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis” (BB: 9, GA: 8, SM: 4)
  8. 9/15: Billy Murray “Come Take a Trip in My Airship” (GA: 4, BB: 4, SM: 2)
  9. 9/24: Bryon G. Harlan “All Aboard for Dreamland” (BB: 2)
  10. 10/8: Billy Murray “Alexander (Don't You Love Your Baby No More?)” (BB: 3)
  11. 10/29: Haydn Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (BB: 10)
  12. 10/15: Mina Hickman “Goodbye Little Girl, Goodbye” (GA: 4, SM: 3)
  13. 12/1: Billy Murray “Teasing (I Was Only Teasing You)” (SM: 1)
  14. 12/15: Bob Roberts “I May Be Crazy, But I Ain't No Fool” (GA: 4, SM: 1)
  15. 12/24: Columbia Male Quartet “Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)” (BB: 3)

1905:

  1. 1/1: Bob Roberts “Back Back Back to Baltimore” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  2. 2/25: Billy Murray “Yankee Doodle Boy” (aka “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy”) (GA: 8, BB: 8, SM: 3)
  3. 4/15: Henry Burr (as Irving Gillette) “In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree” (GA: 16, SM: 8, BB: 7)
  4. 6/10: Arthur Collins “The Preacher and the Bear” (BB: 11)
  5. 7/15: Billy Murray “Give My Regards to Broadway” (BB: 5)
  6. 8/15: Ada Jones “Keep a Little Cosey Corner in Your Heart for Me” (SM: 1)
  7. 9/30: Corinne Morgan with Haydn Quartet “Dearie” (GA: 4, BB: 2)
  8. 9/1: Arthur Collins “My Irish Molly-O” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  9. 10/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Would You Care?” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  10. 10/14: Billy Murray “In My Merry Oldsmobile” (BB: 7)
  11. 12/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (GA: 12, SM: 6)
  12. 12/2: Bryon G. Harlan “Where the Morning Glories Twine Around the Door” (BB: 5)

1906:

  1. 1/6: Billy Murray “Everybody Works But Father” (BB: 3)
  2. 1/27: Corinne Morgan with the Haydn Quartet “How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?” (BB: 2)
  3. 2/10: Bryon G. Harlan “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (BB: 9)
  4. 2/24: Harry Tally “Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie” (BB: 1)
  5. 3/1: Harry MacDonough “Dearie” (SM: 3)
  6. 4/15: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Will You Love Me in December As You Do in May?” (GA: 8, SM: 3)
  7. 4/21; Corinne Morgan “So Long Mary” (BB: 3)
  8. 5/12: Billy Murray “You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka “The Grand Old Rag”)” (BB: 10, GA: 8, SM: 3)
  9. 7/15: Ada Jones “Waiting at the Church (My Wife Won't Let Me)” (GA: 8, SM: 4)
  10. 7/21: Bert Williams “Nobody” (BB: 9)
  11. 9/15: Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie” (SM: 5)
  12. 9/22: Bryon G. Harlan “The Good Old U.S.A.” (BB: 4)
  13. 10/20: Albert Campbell “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (BB: 3, SM: 1)
  14. 11/10: Henry Burr “Love Me and the World Is Mine” (BB: 7)
  15. 12/1: Bryon G. Harlan “Won't You Come Over to My House?” (GA: 4, SM: 1)
  16. 12/29: Bert Williams “Let It Alone” (BB: 2)

1907:

  1. 1/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Arrah Wanna” (SM: 4)
  2. 1/12: Albert Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Camp Meetin’ Time” (BB: 2)
  3. 1/26: Bert Williams “He’s a Cousin of Mine” (BB: 2)
  4. Jan: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Arrah Wanna” (GA: 8)
  5. 2/12: Bryon G. Harlan “My Gal Sal” (BB: 10)
  6. 3/1: Helen Trix “The Bird on Nellie’s Hat” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  7. 4/1: Vesta Victoria “Poor John!” (SM: 2)
  8. 4/20: Ada Jones “I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave” (BB: 2)
  9. Apr: Ada Jones “Poor John!” (GA: 4)
  10. 5/1: Billy Murray “San Antonio (Cowboy Song)” (SM: 2)
  11. 5/4: Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson “Because You’re You” (BB: 2)
  12. 5/18: Bryon G. Harlan “School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)” (GA: 20, BB: 11, SM: 9)
  13. May: Billy Murray “San Antonio (Cowboy Song)” (GA: 4)
  14. 8/3: Bryon G. Harlan “Nobody’s Little Girl” (BB: 3)
  15. 8/24: Enrico Caruso “Pagliacci, Act I: Vesti La Giubba (On with the Play) (new version)” (BB: 4)
  16. 9/21: Billy Murray “Harrigan” (BB: 9, SM: 6, GA: 2)
  17. 11/23: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk” (BB: 6)

1908:

  1. 1/4: Harry MacDonough “My Dear” (BB: 5)
  2. 1/15: Bryon G. Harlan “Two Blue Eyes (Two Little Baby Shoes)” (GA: 4, SM: 1)
  3. 2/1: Billy Murray “The Best I Get Is Much Obliged to You” (SM: 1)
  4. 2/8: Billy Murray “Under Any Old Flag at All” (BB: 6)
  5. 2/15: Elise Stevenson & Harry MacDonough “I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz)” (SM: 3)
  6. Feb: Victor Orchestra “I Love You So (Merry Widow Waltz)” (GA: 8)
  7. 3/21: Alan Turner “As Long As the World Rolls On” (BB: 6)
  8. 4/1: Billy Murray “I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark” (GA: 8, SM: 3)
  9. 5/2: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Wouldn't You Like to Have Me for a Sweetheart?” (BB: 3)
  10. 5/15: Victor Orchestra “The Glow-Worm” (GA: 8, SM: 6, BB: 5)
  11. 6/27: Lucy Isabell Marsh “The Glow-Worm” (GA: 8, BB: 5)
  12. 8/1: Elise Stevenson “Are You Sincere?” (BB: 4)
  13. 8/29: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “When We Are M-A-R-R-I-E-D” BB: 4)
  14. Aug: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (GA: 8, BB: 7)
  15. 9/15: Harvey Hindermeyer “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (GA: 8, BB: 7, SM: 2)
  16. 9/15: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Down in Jungle Town” (SM: 1)
  17. 9/26: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine” (BB: 5)
  18. 10/1: Haydn Quartet with Harry MacDonough “Sunbonnet Sue” (GA: 16, SM: 8, BB: 5)

1909:

  1. 1/23: Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson “Good Evening, Caroline” (BB: 5)
  2. 2/1: Eddie Morton “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (SM: 3)
  3. 2/27: Arthur Collns & Bryon G. Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (BB: 6)
  4. Feb: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “The Right Church But the Wrong Pew” (GA: 4)
  5. 3/15: Harry MacDonough & Miss Walton “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 9, SM: 5)
  6. 6/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!” (SM: 4)
  7. 6/12: Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine on, Harvest Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 5)
  8. June: Blanche Ring “Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!” (GA: 8)
  9. 7/13: Henry Burr “To the End of the World with You” (BB: 3)
  10. 8/1: Ada Jones “My Pony Boy” (GA: 4, SM: 2)
  11. 8/7: Ada Jones & the Victor Light Opera “The Yama Yama Man” (BB: 5)
  12. 9/1: Henry Burr “I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now” (GA: 8, BB: 8, SM: 4)
  13. 11/1: Blanche Ring “I've Got Rings on My Fingers” (GA: 4, BB: 2, SM: 2)
  14. 11/20: Ada Jones “I've Got Rings on My Fingers” (GA: 4, BB: 4)
  15. 12/1: Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” (GA: 12, BB: 9, SM: 6)
  16. 12/18: Haydn Quartet “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (BB: 11, GG: 3)

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