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  • 1800-1899: The 100 Most Popular Songs

    1800-1899: The 100 Most Popular Songs

    1800s Pop Song Hits

    1. Good Morning to All (Happy Birthday To You) – 1893
    2. Amazing Grace – 1800
    3. Jingle Bells – 1857 (by James Pierpont)
    4. Old MacDonald Had A Farm – 1859
    5. Camptown Races* – 1850 (Stephen Foster)
    *actual title is Gwine to Run All Night
    6. Mary Had a Little Lamb – (1830 Lyrics)
    7. Rock-a-bye Baby – 1884 (by Effie I. Canning)
    8. Alphabet Song – 1834 (copyrighted by C. Bradlee, it’s probably older)
    9. Wedding March – 1844 (by Felix Mendelssohn, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
    10. William Tell Overture – 1829
    11. Semper Fidelis – 1886 (by John Philip Sousa)
    12. (Oh Dem) Golden Slippers – 1879
    13. Stars and Stripes Forever – 1897 (by John Philip Sousa)
    14. When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again – 1863 (by Louis Lambert & Patrick Gilmore)
    15. Chopsticks – 1877
    16. The Battle Hymn of the Republic – 1862 (by Julia Ward Howe)
    17. While Strolling Through The Park One Day – 1884 (by Ed Haley)
    18. Can Can – 1858 (by Offenbach)
    19. When The Saints Go Marching In – 1896 (by Katherine E. Purvis & James M. Black)
    20. Row Row Row Your Boat – 1881
    21. Funeral March (Pray For The Dead and the Dead Will Pray For You…) – 1840
    22. Fur Elise – 1810 (by Beethoven)
    23. I’ve Been Working on the Railroad – 1894
    24. She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain – 1899
    25. Oh! Susanna – 1848 (by Stephen Foster)
    26. Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! – 1861
    27. America (God Shed His Grace On Thee) words – 1832
    28. I’ve Been Working On The Railroad – 1894 (copyright is probably older)
    29. Dixie’s Land (aka Dixie) – 1860
    30. Home, Sweet Home – 1823 (by John Howard Payne)
    31. Joy to the World – 1839 (by Handel)
    32. A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight – 1896
    33. Alouette -1879
    34. O Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone – 1864 (by James Bland)
    35. Turkey In De Straw – 1834
    36. Funiculi Funicula – 1880
    37. Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day) – 1883 (copyright, is probably older)
    38. Reveille – 1890
    39. Gloria – 1890 (by Mozart)
    40. (Oh My Darling) Clementine – 1863 (by Percy Montrose & H S. Thompson)
    41. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot – 1872
    42. Onward, Christian Soldiers – 1871 (by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould & Sir Arthur Sullivan)
    43. The Yellow Rose of Texas – 1858
    44. O Little Town of Bethlehem – 1868
    45. Buffalo Gals – 1844 (heard in the film It’s a Wonderful Life. Malcolm McClaren did it in the 1980s too)
    46. My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean – 1881
    47. Blue Danube Waltz – 1867 (by J.S. Strauss)
    48. Shoo-Fly Don’t Bother Me – 1869
    49. Rock of Ages – 1832 (by Hastings)
    50. Au Clair de la Lune – 1811
    51. Morning – 1890 (by Luse)
    52. Home on the Range – 1873 (by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley)
    53. King Cotton March – 1895
    54. (I Dream Of) Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair – 1854 (by Stephen Foster)
    55. (Gimme That) Old Time Religion – 1865
    56. Song Of India – 1897 (by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov)
    57. The Man on the Flying Trapeze – 1868
    58. Hail to the Chief – 1820 (by Sir Walter Scott & James Sanderson)
    59. Barber of Seville – 1813
    60. Old Folks at Home (Way Down Upon the Swanee River) – 1851 (by Stephen Foster)
    61. The Thunderer – 1889 (by John Philip Sousa)
    62. Skip To My Lou – 1844
    63. The Merry, Merry Month of May – 1862 (by Stephen Foster)
    64. Frankie and Johnny – 1869
    65. Grandfather’s Clock – 1876 (by Henry Clay Work)
    66. Beautiful Dreamer – 1864 (by Stephen Foster )
    67. Away In a Manger – 1887
    68. Flying Dutchman Overture – 1844 (by Wagner)
    69. The Washington Post – 1889 (by John Philip Sousa)
    70. A Night on Bald Mountain – 1887 (by Mussorgsky)
    71. Hello! Ma Baby – 1899
    72. Git Along Little Dogies – 1893
    73. Pictures at an Exhibition – 1887 (by Mussorgsky)
    74. I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen – 1876
    75. Hark the Herald Angels Sing – 1855
    76. Sleeping Beauty Waltz – 1890
    77. Peer Gynt Suite – 1888
    78. Mazel Tov – 1894
    79. Baa Baa Black Sheep – 1865
    80. Liberty Bell March – 1893 (by John Philip Sousa)
    81. Red River Valley – 1896
    82. Maple Leaf Rag – 1899 (by Scott Joplin)
    83. Goodnight Ladies – 1853
    84. King Cotton March – 1895 (by John Philip Sousa)
    85. Home on the Range – 1873
    86. Coronation March – 1849 (by Meyerbeer)
    87. Carry Me Back to Old Virginny – 1878
    88. At A Georgia Camp Meeting – 1897 (by Kerry Mills)
    89. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon – 1838
    90. Good Night – 1899 (by Mendelssohn)
    91. Dance of the Hours – 1876 (by Ponchielli)
    92. Gypsy Love Song – 1898 (by Harry B. Smith & Victor Herbert (From the musical The Fortune Teller)
    93. Prelude in C# Minor – 1893 (by Rachmaninoff)
    94. Hush-a-bye Baby – 1884
    95. El Capitan – 1896 (by John Philip Sousa)
    96. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear – 1850
    97. Romeo and Juliet – 1871 (by Tchaikovsky)
    98. Three Little Kittens – 1885
    99. Good King Wenceslas – 1860ish (words)
    100. I Gave My Love a Cherry – 1850 (heard in 1979 film, Animal House)
  • Rufus Buck Gang

    Rufus Buck Gang

    Rufus Buck Gang

    July 6th is the anniversary of the hanging of the Rufus Buck Gang- four black and Indian teens who tried to singlehandedly, violently halt the expansion of the burgeoning United States. You’ve never heard of them, but they stand among the most notorious and politically significant outlaws of the Old West.

    The famous “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker oversaw the Buck Gang’s capture and condemned them to death. They were associated with the infamous half-black, half-Cherokee outlaw Cherokee Bill. Their crimes were motivated by the U.S. annexation of “Indian Territory” (today’s Oklahoma). The socio-politics surrounding the Buck Gang rampage clearly heralded the emergence of the 20th century United States.

    The Rufus Buck Gang weren’t gunslingers like Billy the Kid, or thieves like the James-Younger gang. They wanted justice, and they sought it with the same violence that had marked their histories as blacks and Indians in America.

    The Indian Territory of the late 20th century was a racial melting pot. It contained more whites than Indians as well as a significant population of black Freemen. Judge Parker’s principal deputy was a black man named Bass Reeves. Whites had come to usurp the promised Indian lands, bit by bit. But in Washington, laws were being passed to allow the wholesale submersion of Indian Territories into the United States. Native people would lose their last chance at a homeland. This enraged Buck.

    By 1895 “Hanging Judge” Isaac Parker had been the sole law in Indian Territory for decades. His last major duty was to capture the Rufus Buck Gang, who embarked on a 13-day rampage in the vain hope of inciting the Territory’s blacks and Indians to violent rebellion against the encroaching United States.

    Fredric Durrette served one tour in Vietnam, retired as E8 in the navy submarine service after 23 years. Major hobbies are collecting old stuff from the 20s and restoring old racing bicycles. Worked as a commercial photographer at JL Hudsons in Detroit and continue photography as a hobby. Love Sade, sixties soul, seventies rock, and all jazz. Attended Woodstock in 69!
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