TOP SONGS IN THE USA FOR 1899*
No. Song-Artist-Peak month 1 I'D LEAVE MY HAPPY HOME FOR YOU-ARTHUR COLLINS-DECEMBER 2 CURSE OF THE DREAMER-DON QUINN-November 3 MY WILD IRISH ROSE-ALBERT CAMPBELL-August 4 HELLO,MA BABY-LEN SPENCER-May 5 GYPSY LOVE SONG-WILLIAM F. HOOLEY-September 6 HELLO,MA BABY-ARTHUR COLLINS-May 7 KISS ME,HONEY,DO-ARTHUR COLLINS-March 8 I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO TELEGRAPH MY BABY-Arthur Collins-April 9 MY WILD IRISH ROSE-George J.Gaskin-July 10 A PICTURE NO ARTIST CAN PAINT-Steve Porter-October 11 When You Ain't Got No More Money,Well,You Needn't Come Around-Arthur Collins-March 12 I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby-Len Spencer-April 13 'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia-S.H. Dudley-November 14 'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia-Harry MacDonough-November 15 Hands Across The Sea-Sousa's Band-July 16 Smoky Mokes-Len Spencer-October 17 My Old New Hampshire Home-Frank Stanley-January 18 Uncle Josh At A Camp Meeting-Cal Stewart-January 19 Please Mr.Conductor,Don't Put Me Off This Train-Byron G.Harlan-October 20 A Bunch Of Rags-Vess Ossman-February 21 Because-Albert Campbell-March 22 A Picture No Artist Can Paint-George J.Gaskin-September 23 The Mockingbird-Joe Belmont-August 24 The Girl I Loved In Sunny Tennessee-Albert Campbell-May 25 Those Cruel Words Good-Bye-Steve Porter-October 26 Uncle Josh In Society-Cal Stewart-August 27 I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby-George J.Gaskin-March 28 My Sunday Girl-S.H. Dudley-November 29 Uncle Josh And The Lightning Rod Agent-Cal Stewart-September 30 Kiss Me,Honey Do-Len Spencer-March 31 Everything In Rag-Time Now-Len Spencer-October 32 Just As The Sun Went Down-John Bieling-December 33 Just As The Sun Went Down-Harry MacDonough-December 34 Cornfield Medley-Haydn Quartet-November 35 My Creole Sue-Steve Porter-September 36 'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia-George J.Gaskin-May 37 I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby-Silas Leachman-April 38 'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia-Frank Stanley-February 39 My Old New Hampshire Home-Albert Campbell-January 40 My Old New Hampshire Home-S.H. Dudley-January 41 Uncle Josh At A Baptizing At Hickory Corners Square-Cal Stewart-January 42 Kentucky Babe-May Kelso 43 When You Ain't Got No More Money,Well You Needn't Come 'Round-Len Spencer-May * 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