No. Song-Artist-Peak month
1 ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH-GEORGE J.GASKIN-NOVEMBER
2 SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY-GEORGE J.GASKIN-June
3 THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER-SOUSA'S BAND-August
4 MY MOTHER WAS A LADY-DAN QUINN-May
5 MY GAL IS A HIGH BORN LADY-LEN SPENCER-April
6 OH,MR. JOHNSON,TURN ME LOOSE-LEN SPENCER-March
7 THERE'S A LITTLE STAR SHINING FOR YOU-DAN QUINN-October
8 A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN-Len Spencer-February
9 SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY-J.W. Myers-June
10 A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN-George J.Gaskin-January
11 Ragtime Medley-Vess Ossman-December
12 Crappy Dan-Len Spencer-August
13 You're Not The Only Pebble On The Beach-Dan Quinn-May
14 Bye And Bye You Will Forgive Me-Roger Harding-September
15 Bye And Bye You Will Forgive Me-Len Spencer-September
16 Dancing In The Dark-Sousa's Band-July
17 The Old Fashoined Mother-George J.Gaskin-September
18 You're Not The Only Peblle On The Beach-Len Spencer-May
19 Departure From The Mountains-George Schweinfest-August
20 Hot Stuff Patrol-Vess Ossman-June
21 Yankee Doodle-Vess Ossman-July
22 Alice,Where Art Thou-Jules Levy-March
23 Dream Of Passion Waltz-Edward Issler & His Orchestra-October
* This list was compiled by data from the book titled
"Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954"(1986) by
Billboard Publications,Inc.
Whitburn's book used data from:
Phonoscope (1896-1899:monthly lists of the top records)
Sheet Music Sales
ASCAP and other lists of top period songs
Record label catalogs:Edison,Columbia,Berliner & regional labels
Jim Walsh columns for Hobbies Magazine on pioneer recording artists
