Wednesday, December 21, 2022

USA: #1 Pop Songs, 1910-1919

USA’s #1 Pop Songs:

1910-1919

These are the #1 pop songs on the United States pop charts from 1910 to 1919. 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.

Meanwhile the Sharon Mawer charts are bi-weekly so to reflect a more accurate depiction of how many weeks the song spent at #1, the original # was doubled.

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

1910:

  1. 3/1: Byron G. Harlan “Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet” (SM: 12)
  2. 6/1: Ada Jones “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?” (SM: 4)
  3. 7/1: Elizabeth Wheeler & Harry Anthony “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland” (SM: 10)
  4. 9/15: Ada Jones “Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Is the Right Little Girl for Me” (SM: 2)
  5. 10/1: Sophie Tucker “Some of These Days” (SM: 4)
  6. 11/1: Bert Williams “Play That Barber-Shop Chord” (SM: 4)

1911:

  1. 1/1: Harry MacDonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh “Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All Its Own” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: Arthur Clough “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (SM: 6)
  3. 3/15: Ada Jones & Billy Murray with the American Quartet “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” (SM: 4)
  4. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Put Your Arms Around Me Honey (I Never Knew Any Girl Like You)” (SM: 10)
  5. 7/15: Arthur Clough & the Brunswick Quartet “Down by the Old Mill Stream” (SM: 10)
  6. 10/1: Arthur Collins & Bryon G. Harlan “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (SM: 16)

1912:

  1. 2/1: Billy Murray & the American Quartet “Oh, You Beautiful Doll” (SM: 12)
  2. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “Everybody’s Doing It Now” (SM: 10)
  3. 7/15: American Quartet “Moonlight Bay” (SM: 8)
  4. 9/15: Heidelberg Quintet “Waiting for the Robert E. Lee” (SM: 14)

1913:

  1. 1/1: Henry Burr “That’s How I Need You” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: American Quartet “On the Mississippi” (SM: 4)
  3. 3/1: Ada Jones “Row Row Row!” (SM: 8)
  4. 5/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam’” (SM: 4)
  5. 6/1: Henry Burr “When I Lost You” (SM: 6)
  6. 7/15: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (SM: 6)
  7. 9/1: Al Jolson “You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)” (SM: 12)
  8. 12/1: Henry Burr “Peg O’ My Heart” (SM: 6)

1914:

  1. 1/15: Harry MacDonough “There’s a Girl in the Heart of Maryland (With a Heart That Belongs to Me)” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/15: Billy Murray “He’d Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under, to Fix Up His Automobile” (SM: 8)
  3. 4/15: American Quartet “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (SM: 4)
  4. 5/15: Peerless Quartet “This is the Life” (SM: 6)
  5. 7/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “I Love the Ladies” (SM: 3)
  6. 7/15: Heidelberg Quintet “By the Beautiful Sea” (SM: 10)
  7. 10/1: Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan “The Aba Daba Honeymoon” (SM: 2)
  8. 10/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Ballin’ the Jack” (SM: 4)
  9. 11/15: Henry Burr “When You’re a Long, Long Way from Home” (SM: 4)
  10. 12/15: Morton Harvey “I Want to Go Back to Michigan (Down on the Farm)” (SM: 4)

1915:

  1. 1/15: John McCormack “It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” (SM: 6)
  2. 3/1: Peerless Quartet “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (SM: 8)
  3. 5/1: George MacFarlane “A Little Bit of Heaven (Shure, They Call It Ireland)” (SM: 12)
  4. 7/1: Peerless Quartet “I’m on My Way to Dublin Bay” (SM: 4)
  5. 9/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Little Dream Girl” (SM: 2)
  6. 9/15: Henry Burr “When I Leave the World Behind” (SM: 4)
  7. 10/15: Olive Kline (as Alice Green) with Edward Hamilton “Hello Frisco!” (SM: 2)
  8. 11/1: Harry MacDonough “It’s Tulip Time in Holland” (SM: 4)
  9. 12/1: James F. Harrison & James Reed “My Sweet Adair” (SM: 2)
  10. 12/15: Prince’s Orchestra “Back Home in Tennessee” (SM: 6)

1916:

  1. 2/1: Henry Burr “M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)” (SM: 8)
  2. 4/1: John Barnes Wells “Memories” (SM: 4)
  3. 5/1: Henry Burr “Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You (Is All That I Can Say)” (SM: 4)
  4. 6/1: Al Jolson “Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula” (SM: 8)
  5. 8/1: Henry Burr “Baby Shoes” (SM: 4)
  6. 9/1: Billy Murray “Pretty Baby” (SM: 12)
  7. 12/1: Billy Murray “There’s a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Little Girl” (SM: 4)

1917:

  1. 1/1: Orpheus Quartet “Mammy’s Little Coal Black Rose” (SM: 4)
  2. 2/1: Victor Military Band “Poor Butterfly” (SM: 12)
  3. 5/1: Van & Schenk “For Me and My Gal” (SM: 12)
  4. 8/1: Charles Harrison “All the World Will Be Jealous of Me” (SM: 2)
  5. 8/15: American Quartet “Over There” (SM: 22)

1918:

  1. 2/1: Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Darktown Strutters’ Ball” (SM: 8)
  2. 4/1: Henry Burr “Just a Baby’s Prayer at Twilight” (SM: 8)
  3. 6/1: Henry Burr “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry” (SM: 6)
  4. 7/15: Billy Murray “K-K-K-Katy (Stammering Song)” (SM: 8)
  5. 9/15: Joseph C. Smith & Harry MacDonough “Smiles” (SM: 14)

1919:

  1. 1/1: Charles Harrison “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (SM: 2)
  2. 1/15: Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw “Rose of No Man’s Land” (SM: 2)
  3. 2/1: Henry Burr & Albert Campbell “Till We Meet Again” (SM: 12)
  4. 5/1: Nora Bayes “How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm After They’ve Seen Paree” (SM: 4)
  5. 6/1: Ben Selvin “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” (SM: 14)
  6. 9/15: John Steel “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody” (SM: 4)
  7. 10/15: Van & Schenk “Mandy” (SM: 6)
  8. 12/1: Henry Burr “Oh, What a Pal Was Mary” (SM: 6)

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First posted 12/21/2022.

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