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  • Early 1900s: The 100 Most Popular Songs

    Early 1900s: The 100 Most Popular Songs

    The 1900s: 1900-1919 Pop Song Hits

    1. I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy – 1904 (by George M Cohen)
    2. America the Beautiful – 1910
    3. Danny Boy – 1913
    4. Take Me Out To The Ball Game – 1908 (by Jack Norworth & Albert Von Tilzer )
    5. Pomp and Circumstance – 1902 (by Elgar)
    6. The Grand Old Rag (aka “You’re a Grand Old Flag”) – 1906 (by George M. Cohan)
    7. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling – 1912 (by Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr, . Ernest R. Ball)
    8. Daddy’s Little Girl – 1905 (by Edward Madden & Theodore F. Morse)
    9. The Bells Of St Mary’s – 1917 (by Douglas Furber & A. Emmett Adams)
    10. Give My Regards to Broadway – 1904 (by George M. Cohan )
    11. Swanee – 1919
    12. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That’s An Irish Lullaby) – 1913 (by James R. Shannon )
    13. I Ain’t Got Nobody – 1916 (by Roger Graham, Dave Peyton & Spencer Williams)
    14. I Want To Be In Dixie (I’m Going Back To Dixie) – 1911 (by Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder)
    15. The Entertainer – 1902 (by Scott Joplin)
    16. Strike Up the Band (Here Comes a Sailor) – 1900
    17. Anchors Aweigh – 1906 (by Alfred Hart Miles & R. Lovell and Charles A. Zimmerman)
    18. The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous – 1903 (by Dan McAvoy)
    19. Colonel Bogey March – 1914 (by Kenneth J. Alford)
    20. Melody Of Love – 1903 (by Tom Glazer & H. Engelmann)
    21. Flight of the Bumble Bee – 1900 – (by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
    22. Rite of Spring – 1913 (by Stravinsky)
    23. Over There – 1917 (by George M. Cohan)
    24. Yale Boola! (March and Two-Step) – 1901
    25. Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo – 1919 (by Edward Rowland)
    26. March of the Toys – 1903 (by Victor Herbert, heard in Babes In Toyland)
    27. Frankie and Johnny – 1912
    28. Dardanella – 1919 (by Fred Fisher & Felix Bernard, Johnny S. Black)
    29. You Belong To Me – 1916 (by Harry B. Smith & Victor Herbert)
    30. Alexander’s Ragtime Band – 1911(?)
    31. Hail! Hail! The Gang’s All Here – 1917 (by D. A. Esrom, Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan)
    32. Fascination – 1915 (by Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg)
    33. McNamara’s Band – 1917 (by John J. Stamford & Shamus O’Connor)
    34. Peg O’ My Heart – 1913 (by Alfred Bryan & Fred Fisher)
    35. Saint Louis Blues – 1914 (by W. C. Handy)
    36. The Glow-Worm – 1902 (by Lilla Cayley Robinson, Heinz Bolten-Backers, Paul Lincke)
    37. Scott Joplin’s New Rag – 1912 (by Scott Joplin)
    38. Hail Hail the Gang’s All Here – 1917
    39. Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet – 1909 (by Stanley Murphy & Percy Wenrich)
    40. Bye, Bye My Honey – Billy Golden (1911)
    41. Joe Turner Blues – 1915 (by Walter Hirsch & W. C. Handy)
    42. It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary – 1912
    43. Ragtime Cowboy Joe – 1912 (by Grant Clarke, Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams)
    44. Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning – 1918 (by Irving Berlin)
    45. The Whiffenpoof Song – 1909 (by Meade Minnigerode & George S. Pomeroy, Tod B. Galloway)
    46. Alabama Jubilee – 1915 (by Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb)
    47. The Darktown Strutters’ Ball – 1916 (by Shelton Brooks)
    48. Harrigan – 1907 (by George M. Cohan)
    49. Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home – 1902
    50. Let Me Call You Sweetheart – 1910
    51. Keep On The Sunny Side – 1906 (by Jack Drislane & Theodore F. Morse)
    52. Because – 1902
    53. Hiawatha (His Song to Minnehaha) – 1903
    54. Ida! Sweet as Apple Cider – 1903 (by Eddie Leonard & Eddie Munson)
    55. The Aba Daba Honeymoon – 1914 (by Arthur Fields & Walter Donovan)
    56. Play a Simple Melody – 1914 (by Irving Berlin)
    57. Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life – 1910 (by Rida Johnson Young & Victor Herbert)
    58. Ballin’ The Jack – 1913 (by James Henry Burris & Chris Smith)
    59. The Memphis Blues – 1912
    60. American Patrol – 1901(?)
    61. On a Sunday Afternoon – 1902
    62. The Saint Louis Blues – 1914
    63. The Rose Of Tralee – 1912 (by C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover)
    64. K-K-K-Katy – 1918 (by Geoffrey O’Hara)
    65. There’s A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway – 1915 (by Howard Johnson & Fred Fisher)
    66. Syncopated Walk – 1914 (by Irving Berlin)
    67. My Melancholy Baby – 1912 (by George A. Norton & Ernie Burnett)
    68. Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis – 1904
    69. Give Us Just Another Lincoln – 1900
    70. I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now – 1909 (by Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams, Joseph E. Howard & Harold Orlob)
    71. In the Good Old Summer Time – 1902
    72. Twelfth Street Rag – 1914 (by Euday L. Bowman)
    73. A Little Bit of Heaven – 1915
    74. Casey Jones – 1909 (by T. Lawrence Seibert & Eddie Newton)
    75. Blame It on the Blues – 1914
    76. By the Light of the Silvery Moon – 1909 (by Edward Madden & Gus Edwards)
    77. Waltz Around Again Willie – 1906 (‘Round, ‘Round, ‘Round)
    78. Alcoholic Blues – 1919 (by Edward Laska & Albert Von Tilzer)
    79. I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier – 1915 (by Alfred Bryan & Al Piantadosi )
    80. Shine On Harvest Moon – 1907 (by Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth)
    81. I Can’t Tell Why I Love You But I Do – 1900
    82. Hungarian Rag – 1913 (by Julius Lenzberg)
    83. In My Merry Oldsmobile -1905 (by Vincent P. Bryan & Gus Edwards)
    84. And Then – 1913 (by Alfred Bryan & Herman Paley)
    85. Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip! – 1918
    86. Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You – 1916 (by J. Keirn Brennan & Ernest R. Ball)
    87. Mary’s a Grand Old Name – 1905 (from the musical play Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway)
    88. Un Bel Di Madame Butterfly – 1904 (by Puccini)
    89. My Gal Sal – 1905
    90. Concerto for Piano #2 – 1901 (by Rachmaninoff)
    91. Topsy Song – 1910
    92. I’m Always Chasing Rainbows – 1918 (from the Musical Comedy Oh Look!)
    93. On The Road To Mandalay – 1907 (by Rudyard Kipling & Oley Speaks)
    94. Missouri Waltz (Hush-a-Bye, Ma Baby) – 1914
    95. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree – 1905
    96. Beans! Beans!! Beans!!! – 1912 (by Elmer Bowman & Chris Smith)
    97. Tell Me Pretty Maiden (English Girls and Clerks) – 1900 (featured in Florodora)
    98. A Good Man Is Hard To Find – 1919(?)
    99. The Caissons Go Rolling Along – 1906 (by Edmund L. Gruber)
    100. Uncle Josh in Society – 1909
  • 1915 History, Fun Facts and Trivia

    1915 History, Fun Facts and Trivia

    1915 History, Facts and Trivia

    Top Ten Baby Names of 1915

    Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret, Ruth, John, William, James, Robert, Joseph

    US Life Expectancy

    (1915) Males: 52.5 years, Females: 56.8 years

    Firsts, Inventions, and Wonders

    Growers got together to try and make their “Alligator Pears” sound more appealing. Collectively, they decided to change the name of the fruit to “Avocados.”

    The first performance of a ‘haunted house’ was the Orton and Spooner Ghost House, which opened in 1915 in Liphook, England.

    A raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl (Lorraine Collett) drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet. She hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon she became the company’s first symbol called, “Sun-Maid.”

    Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara “Maybelline” in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of Vaseline and coal dust to darken her eyelashes.

    Junior Chamber International (Jay-Cees) was founded in St. Louis, Missouri.

    Johnny Gruelle received a US Patent (#47789) for his Raggedy Ann Doll on September 7, 1915.

    Audrey Munson was the first person allowed to appear nude in a non-pornographic film, Inspiration. She was the model for fewer than 15 statues in New York City and is considered the first supermodel.

    Actress Theda Bara was the first modern Sex Symbol.

    Kiwanis International was founded in Detroit by Joseph C. Prance and Allen S. Browne.

    The first stop sign appeared in Detroit, Michigan. It was white with black letters.

    Wrigley’s Gum shipped sticks of gum to every address listed in US phone books as an early viral marketing campaign.

    Chicago’s Wrigley Field became the first baseball stadium to allow fans to keep home runs and foul balls hit into the stands.

    The term “Crime Against Humanity” was first used about the Armenian Genocide by the Allied powers in 1915.

    The Most Popular Singers and Artists of 1915 include

    Henry Burr, Albert Campbell, Arthur Collins, The Conway’s Band, Alma Gluck, Byron Harlan, Charles Harrison, Morton Harvey, Al Jolson, Irving Kaufman, Olive Kline, The Lyric Quartet, Harry Macdonough, George MacFarlane, John McCormack, Lambert Murphy, Billy Murray, The Peerless Quartet, Prince’s Orchestra, Homer Rodeheaver, Cal Stewart, Reinald Werrenrath, Bert Williams

    Pop Culture News

    Inventor Buckminster Fuller tried to document his life as thoroughly as possible. Every 15 minutes from 1915 to his death in 1983, he recorded his life in his diary named ‘Dymaxion Chronofile.’ It contains 14,000 pages.

    The British Board of Film Classification forbade images of drug misuse as early as 1915, not because there was a significant societal problem but because it was thought that these scenes might arouse curiosity.

    Birth of a Nation was the first movie screened at the White House and even used excerpts from then-President Woodrow Wilson’s book in the subtitles. Wilson was a member of the KKK.

    There were numerous reports of a theoretical planet named ‘Vulcan’ – closer to the Sun than Mercury – until the planet was finally disproved in 1915 by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

    The US Supreme Court handed down a decision in 1915 that established that free speech did not extend to motion pictures because they were not a form of art but a business. It was overturned in 1952

    “The Class the Stars Fell On”… 36% (59 cadets) of the 1915 West Point Class attained the rank of General. Members included Dwight D. Eisenhower and Omar N. Bradley.

    Someone in the Red Ash Coal mine (Laurel Run, Pennsylvania) forgot his carbide lamp hanging from a timber beam that subsequently caught fire. The mine fire continues to burn today.

    The earliest known instance of “Jazz” was used to refer to music in the Chicago Daily Tribune on July 11, 1915.

    The real Chef Boyardee, Ettore “Hector” Boiardi, directed the catering at President Woodrow Wilson’s wedding reception 1915.

    The phrase “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” was coined by Elbery Hubbard, an anarchist, when he was writing the obituary for his friend, Marshall P. Wilder, a famous dwarf actor.

    Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge as a gift for his wife. She didn’t like it, so he gave it to England in 1918.

    When the Ford Model T first came out in 1909, it cost $850. By 1913, it had fallen to $550; finally, by 1915, the price had dropped to $350. But by the 1920s, the price had fallen to $250 per car. On October 12, 1915, the 1,000,000th car was built by Ford.

    One of the Hawaiian islands, Ni’ihau, has been privately owned since 1864 and closed to outside visitors since 1915.

    California became the first state to ban cannabis.

    The Horrible

    The SS Eastland, a passenger ship, capsized in its dock in downtown Chicago, killing 844 people on July 24, 1915.

    The Typo:

    The Washington Post wrote that President Woodrow Wilson spent an evening “entering” his fiancée, instead of “entertaining” her.

    Nobel Prize Winners

    Chemistry – Richard Willstätter
    Literature – Romain Rolland
    Medicine – not awarded
    Peace – not awarded
    Physics – William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1915

    Fiction Bestsellers

    1. The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington
    2. A Far Country by Winston Churchill
    3. Michael O’Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter
    4. Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter
    5. K by Mary Roberts Rinehart
    6. Jaffery by William J. Locke
    7. Felix O’Day by F. Hopkinson Smith
    8. The Harbor by Ernest Poole
    9. The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey
    10. Angela’s Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison

    Other Books of Note

    The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
    The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
    Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
    The Golden Bough by James George Frazer
    America’s Coming of Age by Van Wyck Brooks
    The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    The House on Henry Street by Lillian Wald
    Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

    Sports

    World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox
    Stanley Cup Champs: Vancouver Millionaires
    U.S. Open Golf: Jerome Travers
    U.S. Tennis (Men/Ladies): Bill Johnston/Molla Bjurstedt
    Wimbledon (Men/Women): not held (WWI)
    NCAA Football Champions: Cornell
    Kentucky Derby Winner: Regret
    Boston Marathon Winner: Édouard Fabre Time: 2:31:41

    More 1915 Facts & History Resources:

    Most Popular Baby Names (BabyCenter.com)
    Popular and Notable Books (popculture.us) 
    Broadway Shows that Opened in 1915
    1915 Calendar, courtesy of Time and Date.com 

    Fact Monster
    1915 in Movies (according to IMDB) 
    Wikipedia 1915

  • In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

    In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

    In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

    *originally published in Punch Magazine
    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row, 
    That mark our place, and in the sky, 
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly, 
    Scarce heard amid the guns below. 
    
    We are the dead; short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie
    In Flanders fields. 
    
    Take up our quarrel with the foe! 
    To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high! 
    If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
    In Flanders fields.

    John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian soldier.