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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
  • 1918 History, Fun Facts and Trivia

    1918 History, Fun Facts and Trivia

    1918 History, Facts and Trivia

    1918 History Rundown:

    • January 8 – President Wilson’s Fourteen Points Speech: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined his vision for post-war peace, presenting the Fourteen Points to Congress as a basis for ending World War I.
    • March 3 – Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Signed: Soviet Russia and the Central Powers signed this treaty, marking Russia’s exit from World War I and ceding significant territories to Germany.
    • March 21 – German Spring Offensive Launched: Germany initiated a series of attacks along the Western Front to defeat the Allies before American forces could fully arrive.
    • April 21 – Death of the Red Baron: Manfred von Richthofen, the famed German fighter pilot known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed over France.
    • May 16 – U.S. House Passes Women’s Suffrage Amendment: The House of Representatives approved the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote; it would be ratified in 1920.
    • June 4 – Battle of Belleau Wood Begins: U.S. Marines engaged German forces in France, marking a significant American contribution to the war and bolstering Allied morale.
    • July 17 – Execution of the Romanov Family: Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, effectively ending the Russian monarchy.
    • July 18 – Second Battle of the Marne: Allied forces launched a successful counteroffensive against Germany, marking a turning point on the Western Front.
    • August 8 – Battle of Amiens Commences: Allied forces began an offensive that led to a series of victories, contributing to the eventual end of World War I.
    • September 26 – Meuse-Argonne Offensive Starts: The largest operation of the American Expeditionary Forces aimed to breach German defenses, leading to significant Allied advances.
    • October 12 – Cloquet Fire in Minnesota: A massive forest fire in Cloquet, Minnesota, resulted in the deaths of approximately 453 people and extensive property damage.
    • October 30 – Ottoman Empire Signs Armistice of Mudros: The Ottoman Empire agreed to cease hostilities, effectively exiting World War I.
    • November 3 – Austria-Hungary Signs Armistice: Austria-Hungary agreed to an armistice with the Allies, leading to the empire’s dissolution.
    • November 9 – Kaiser Wilhelm II Abdicates: Facing revolution at home, the German Emperor abdicated, leading to the proclamation of the Weimar Republic.
    • November 11 – Armistice Day: World War I ended with the Armistice signing between the Allies and Germany, ceasing hostilities on the Western Front.
    • November 11 – Poland Regains Independence: After 123 years of partitions, Poland re-emerged as an independent nation following the end of World War I.
    • November 28 – Estonia Declares Independence: Estonia proclaimed independence from Russia, establishing the Estonian Provisional Government.
    • December 1 – Formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes: The new state, later known as Yugoslavia, was established, uniting South Slavic peoples.
    • December 4 – President Wilson Sails for Paris Peace Conference: Woodrow Wilson became the first sitting U.S. president to travel to Europe, aiming to shape the post-war peace process.
    • December 14 – British General Election Held: The United Kingdom held its first general election after World War I, resulting in a coalition victory led by David Lloyd George.
    • Spanish Flu Pandemic: A deadly influenza pandemic spread globally, ultimately killing an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
    • Russian Civil War Intensifies: The conflict between the Red (Bolshevik) and White (anti-Bolshevik) armies escalated, shaping the future Soviet Union.
    • Women’s Suffrage Movement Gains Momentum: Several countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, granted women the right to vote, marking significant progress in women’s rights.
    • Advancements in Aviation: World War I spurred significant technological advancements in aircraft design and aerial combat tactics.
    • Cultural Shifts Post-War: The end of World War I led to significant changes in art, literature, and society, setting the stage for the Roaring Twenties.

    Top Ten Baby Names of 1918

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

    US Life Expectancy

    (1918) Males: 36.6 years, Females: 42.2 years
    *The life expectancy at birth in 1918 in the US dropped by almost 12 years because of the Spanish Flu.

    Firsts, Inventions, and Wonders

    The Timberland Shoe Company was founded.

    Irving Berlin wrote God Bless America.

    Stars & Stripes, the weekly US armed forces newspaper, restarted publication. It was also published during the Civil War.

    Opha Mae Johnson became the first woman allowed to join the US Marine Corps.

    The Most Popular Singers and Artists of 1918 include:

    Norah Bayes, Henry Burr, Enrico Caruso, Arthur Collins, Albert Campbell, The Farber Sisters, Arthur Fields, Byron G. Harlan, Marion Harris, Charles Harrison, Charles Hart, Lewis James, Al Jolson, Irving Kaufman, Olive Kline, John McCormack, Lambert Murphy, Billy Murray, The Original Dixieland Band, The Peerless Quartet, Oscar Seagle, The Shannon Four, Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra, John Philip Sousa’s Band, Elizabeth Spencer, The Sterling Trio, Van & Schenck, The Victor Light Opera Company

    Pop Culture Facts & History

    Executed labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill had his ashes seized by the US federal government on Oct 8, 1917. The ashes were held for 71 years as they were seen as subversive. Before he died, Hill asked to be cremated and specified that his ashes be scattered in every state except Utah.

    The 1918 World Series marked the first time The Star-Spangled Banner was performed at a major league game. During the seventh-inning stretch of Game 1, the band began playing the song because the country was involved in World War I.

    A 1918 calendar is also suitable for 2013, 2019, 2002, 1991, 1985, 1974, 1963, 1957, 1946, 1935 and 1929

    The Sinking of the Lusitania was a cartoon short (longest at the time) by Windsor McCay…

    Enrico Caruso, the legendary opera singer, was paid $100,000, the equivalent of $1.75 Million today, to star in My Cousin, a silent movie.

    The United States Congress officially established time zones and approved the March 19, 1918 Standard Time Act.

    The Geographic Center of the United States was determined by balancing a cardboard cutout shape of the US on a point, near Lebanon, Kansas. It was accurate to within 20 miles.

    In 1918, pink was for boys because it was a stronger color, and the more delicate blue was reserved for girls.

    Ossip Bernstein, a famous chess grandmaster, was sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks in 1918. While he was facing the firing squad, a Russian officer who heard his name offered him the chance to prove his identity in a game of chess. He beat the officer and was released.

    Six hundred fifty-four sheep were killed by forked lightning when it struck a mountain in Wasatch National Park, Utah, on July 18, 1918.

    Over 100 waiters were arrested for poisoning bad tippers in Chicago. The Mickey Finn is most likely named after Michael “Mickey” Finn, the Lone Star Saloon and Palm Garden Restaurant manager, which operated from 1896 to 1903 in the Chicago Loop neighborhood on South State Street of Chicago. “Slipping someone a ‘Mickey’ was named after this assault.

    In Russia, the day after January 31st was February 14th, not February 1st – that’s the day Russia transitioned from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

    The Re-Gift:
    In 1915, Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge as a gift for his wife. She didn’t like it, so he donated it to the nation in 1918.

    H1N1 – Spanish Flu

    The Spanish Flu: This was during World War I (also called The Great War), and many countries had limits on what the press could write about, except Spain, which was neutral. Thus, more reports came out about the flu from Spain, causing people to think it was primarily happening there.

    The 1918 Spanish Flu killed so many people in the US that it caused the average life expectancy in males to drop from 48.4 to 36.6 and 54.0 to 42.2 in females between 1917 and 1918.

    Some Scientists Have Never Seen A Movie Dept

    An unextinction is scientifically possible. Several viruses have been brought back, including the 1918 flu pandemic.

    WWI News

    When Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) was shot down and killed in 1918, the British Army gave him a full military funeral, complete with clergy, a gun salute, and a wreath inscribed with, “To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe.”

    A carrier pigeon named Cher Ami saved 194 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite being blinded in one eye, shot through the breast, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by a tendon.

    The phrase “The First World War” was used as early as 1918, by Niall Ferguson, who felt it would not be the last.

    There is only a single known audio recording from WWI. It involves British troops firing gas shells at German positions during their advance on Lille, France, on October 9, 1918.

    A monument honors the almost one million Allied horses who died during the First World War in Ascot, near Windsor Castle, UK. Of one million drafted horses, only 62,000 returned in 1918.

    The USS Cyclops disappeared along with 306 crew and passengers in The Bermuda Triangle. No trace has ever been found, and it remains the single largest non-combat loss of life in US Naval history.

    Private John Parr was the first British soldier to die in World War 1. Almost a million more Brits died, and the last was Private George Edwin Ellison, just before the Armistice ending the war was signed in 1918. In an unplanned coincidence, the graves face each other just 15 feet apart at the same cemetery.

    Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day, marking the end of WW1 hostilities in 1918 in the 11th month, on the 11th day, at the 11th hour.

    After the Treaty of Versailles (end of WW I), the French Commander-in-chief said, “This is not a Peace. It is an Armistice for 20 years”. Twenty years and 65 days later, WW II began.

    The Disasters

    On February 26, 1918, one of the worst sports-related disasters occurred when the “Happy Valley Racecourse” grandstands in Happy Valley, Hong Kong, caught fire. Over 600 spectators were burned alive and 300 more were injured.

    The steamer Princess Sophia sank on Vanderbilt Reef near Juneau, Alaska, and 353 people died.

    The Great Train Wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collided with an outbound express, killing 101 people.

    The Mystery

    The USS Cyclops, which went missing in 1918 during WWI, remains the single most significant loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat, and the ship’s fate is still unknown.

    Broadway Show

    Lightnin’ (Play) Opened on August 26, 1918, and closed on August 27, 1921

    Nobel Prize Winners

    Physics – Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
    Chemistry – Fritz Haber
    Medicine – not awarded
    Literature – not awarded
    Peace – not awarded

    Popular and Best-selling Books From 1918

    Fiction Bestsellers

    1. The U.P. Trail by Zane Grey
    2. The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
    3. The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart
    4. Dere Mable by Edward Streeter
    5. Oh, Money! Money! by Eleanor H. Porter
    6. Greatheart by Ethel M. Dell
    7. The Major by Ralph Connor
    8. The Pawns Count by E. Phillips Oppenheim
    9. A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton Porter
    10. Sonia by Stephen McKenna

    General Nonfiction Bestsellers

    1. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. Service
    2. Treasury of War Poetry by G.H. Clark
    3. With the Colors by Everard J. Appleton
    4. Recollections by Viscount Morley
    5. Laugh and Live by Douglas Fairbanks
    6. Mark Twain’s Letters edited by Albert Bigelow Paine
    7. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis
    8. Over Here by Edgar Guest
    9. Diplomatic Days by Edith O’Shaughnessy
    10. Poems of Alan Seeger by Alan Seeger

    War Nonfiction Bestsellers

    1. My Four Years in Germany by James W. Gerard
    2. The Glory of the Trenches by Coningsby Dawson
    3. Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey
    4. A Minstrel In France by Harry Lauder
    5. Private Peat by Harold R. Peat
    6. Outwitting the Hun by Lieut. Pat O’Brien
    7. Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. Gerard
    8. Carry On by Coningsby Dawson
    9. Out to Win by Coningsby Dawson
    10. Under Fire by Henri Barbusse

    Other Books of Note

    The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
    The Decline of the West, vol. 1 by Oswald Spengler
    The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
    Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
    My Antonia by Willa Cather
    The Polish Peasant in Europe and America by W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki

    Sports

    World Series Champions: Boston Red Sox
    Stanley Cup Champs: Toronto Arenas
    U.S. Open Golf: not held (WWI)
    U.S. Tennis (Men/Ladies): Robert Lindley Murray/Molla Bjurstedt
    Wimbledon (Men/Women): not held (WWI)
    NCAA Football Champions: Pitt & Michigan
    Kentucky Derby Winner: Exterminator
    Boston Marathon Winner: Camp Devens relay team Time: 2:29:53

    More 1918 History Resources

    Most Popular Baby Names (BabyCenter.com)
    Popular and Notable Books (popculture.us) 
    Broadway Shows that Opened in 1918
    1918 Calendar, courtesy of Time and Date.com 
    Fact Monster
    1918 in Movies (according to IMDB) 
    Wikipedia 1918

  • British Royal Navy’s First Seaplane Base

    British Royal Navy’s First Seaplane Base

    British Royal Navy’s First Seaplane Base

    The British Royal Navy’s first seaplane base, Royal Naval Air Station Calshot (RNAS Calshot), was crucial in developing naval aviation and seaplane technology in the United Kingdom.

    • Dates: RNAS Calshot was established in 1913 and officially commissioned on March 29, 1918.
    • Details: Located on Calshot Spit, a narrow strip of land at the entrance of Southampton Water, RNAS Calshot served as the main seaplane and flying boat station for the British Royal Navy. The base’s strategic location allowed for easy access to the open waters of the English Channel. RNAS Calshot focused on training pilots and crew for seaplane operations, aircraft maintenance, and experimental work on new seaplane designs.
    • Trivial Facts: In 1919, RNAS Calshot was the starting point for the first-ever non-stop transatlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber. Calshot was also involved in the Schneider Trophy air races, a prestigious international seaplane competition held between 1913 and 1931, where the British team achieved multiple victories.
    • Effects on Pop Culture: RNAS Calshot’s involvement in pioneering seaplane technology and its association with historic events such as the first non-stop transatlantic flight and the Schneider Trophy races have contributed to its place in British naval aviation history. While not a prominent fixture in popular culture, it remains an important part of the UK’s aviation heritage.
    • Prominent People: Key figures associated with RNAS Calshot include John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown, who successfully completed the first non-stop transatlantic flight after departing from the base. Additionally, several Royal Navy pilots trained at Calshot succeeded in the Schneider Trophy races.
    • Countries Involved: RNAS Calshot was an essential part of the British Royal Navy’s aviation efforts, directly contributing to developing seaplane technology and training in the United Kingdom.

    In summary, RNAS Calshot, established in 1913, was the British Royal Navy’s first seaplane base and played a significant role in developing naval aviation and seaplane technology. The base’s strategic location made it ideal for training and experimental work, and it was involved in historic events such as the first non-stop transatlantic flight and the Schneider Trophy races.