Tuesday, April 28, 2020

1800s' Most Popular Singers and Songs
 

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. Malcom 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 Ponchielle) 
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)

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