EDWARD FOOTE GARDNER TOP US SINGLES FOR 1918*
No. Song-Artist-Month 1 THE DARKTOWN STRUTTERS' BALL-ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND-FEBRUARY 1726 2 K-K-K-KATY (STAMMERING SONG)-BILLY MURRAY-July 1636 3 JUST A BABY'S PRAYER AT TWILIGHT (FOR HER DADDY OVER THERE)-HENRY BURR-April 1588 4 SMILES-JOSEPH C.SMITH'S ORCHESTRA-September 1570 5 I'M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY-HENRY BURR-June 1492 6 THERE'S A LONG,LONG TRAIL-CHARLES HARRISON,BILLY BURTON & HERBERT STUART-March 1424 7 INDIANOLA-PRINCE'S ORCHESTRA-April 1404 8 ROCK-A-BYE YOUR BABY WITH A DIXIE MELODY-Al Jolson-September 1200 9 HELLO CENTRAL,GIVE ME NO-MAN'S LAND-Al Jolson-August 1108 10 ARE YOU FROM HEAVEN?-Henry Burr-April 940 11 (She's) The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady-Lewis James-June 916 12 My Belgian Rose-Charles Hart-September 912 13 Good morning,Mr.Zip-Zip-Zip!-Eugene Buckley & Peerless Quartette-July 904 14 Oh!How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning-Arthur Fields-November 876 15 Forever Is A Long,Long Time-Charles Hart-June 852 16 Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia-American Quartet-November 836 17 Oh! Frenchy-Arthur Fields-October 826 18 Hindustan-Henry Burr & Albert Campbell-December 808 19 When You Come Back (And You Will Come Back)-John McCormack-October 736 20 Oui,Oui Marie-Arthur Fields-December 720 21 I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line-Irving Kaufman-January 652 22 They Were All Out Of Step But Jim-Billy Murray-August 652 23 After You've Gone-Henry Burr & Albert Campbell-November 620 24 Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Back Home-Henry Burr-November 606 25 I Don't Want To Get Well-Van & Schenck-January 590 26 If He Can Fight Like He Can Love (Good Night,Germany)-Farber Sisters-September 588 27 I Hate To Lose You-Grant Clarke-June 584 28 Bring Back My Daddy To Me-William Tracey & Howard Johnson-June 520 29 Everybody Ought To Know How To Do The Tickle Toe-Barbara A. Cooke-June 492 30 Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)-Vernon Dalhart-May 464 31 Just Like Washington Crossed The Delaware,General Pershing Will Cross The Rhine-Peerless Quartet-July 460 32 Wait Till The Cows Come Home-Prince's Orchestra-March 430 33 Sweet Little Buttercup-Shannon Four & Elizabeth Spencer-April 428 34 Keep Your Head Down,Fritzie Boy-Billy Murray & American Quartet-August 400 35 Tishomingo Blues-Eddie Nelson-July 340 36 Tiger Rag-Original Dixieland Jazz Band-October 332 37 Mammy's Chocolate Soldier'-Victor Light Opera Co.-November 324 38 I'm Going To Follow The Boys-Henry Burr & Elizabeth Spencer-April 320 39 Three Wonderful Letters From Home-Henry Burr-June 320 40 Li'l Liza Jane-Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band-March 320 41 Blue Bird (Bring back My Happiness)-George Graff-May 268 42 'N Everything-Al Jolson-July 252 43 Hail! Hail! The Gang's All Here-Irving Kaufman & Columbia Quartet-January 250 44 Somewhere In France Is The Lily-Henry Burr-February 248 45 I'm Gonna Pin My Medal On The Girl I Left Behind-Peerless Quartet-September 232 46 The Old Grey Mare-Prince's Orchestra-February 220 47 Everybody's Crazy 'Bout The Doggone Blues (But I'm Happy)-Marion Harris-August 204 48 Long Boy (Goodbye,Ma! Goodbye,Pa! Goodbye,Mule)-Prince's Orchestra-January 182 49 Waters Of Venice-Marx Brothers-November 156 50 Will You Remember (Sweetheart)-Olive Kline-January 146 51 Roses Of Picardy-Lawrence Murphy-October 144 52 On The Road To Home Sweet Home-Percy Hemus-April 144 53 Give Me The Moonlight,Give Me The Girl (And Leave The Rest To Me)-Sam Ash-February 96 54 How'd You Like To Be My Daddy?-Farber Sisters-July 88 55 Liberty Bell (It's Time To Ring Again)-Arthur Fields-March 44 56 If You Look In Her Eyes-Louis Hirsch & Otto Harbach-May 44 *Edward Foote Gardner ia a mathematician who used data to compile bi-monthly US single charts between 1899 and 1949.

