PLAYBACK.FM (Website) TOP SINGLES FOR 1920*
https://playback.fm/year/1920 No. Song-Artist-Peak Month 1 SWANEE-AL JOLSON-JUNE 2 WHISPERING-PAUL WHITEMAN-November 3 CRAZY BLUES-MAMIE SMITH & HER JAZZ BAND-December 4 WHEN MY BABY SMILES AT ME-TED LEWIS & HIS BAND-July 5 DARDANELLA-BEN SLELVIN'S NOVELTY ORCHESTRA-February 6 ST.LOUIS BLUES-MARLON HARRIS-October 7 THE LOVE NEST-JOHN STEEL-October 8 I'VE GOT MY CAPTAIN WORKING FOR ME NOW-Al Jolson-January 9 THE JAPANESE SANDMAN-Paul Whiteman-December 10 HOLD ME-Art Hickman-August 11 Alice Blue Gown-Edith Day-May 12 Wang Wang Blues-Paul Whiteman-December 13 The Love Nest-Art Hickman-October 14 I Know Where The Flies Go In Summertime-Waller Williams-July 15 Fala Meu Louro-Francisco Alves 16 I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time-Charles Harrison-December 17 Tell Me,Little Gypsy-Art Hickman & His Orchestra-November 18 The Moon Shines On The Moonshine-Bert Williams-May 19 Cuban Moon-Carl Fenton & His Orchestra-October 20 Tell Me-Al Jolson-February 21 Rose Of Washington Square-Henry Burr-July 22 Avalon-Art Hickman & His Orchestra-December 23 You'd Be Surprised-Eddie Cantor-March 24 Irene-Edith Day-May 25 You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet-Al Jolson-April 26 Chloe-Al Jolson-May 27 That Old Irish Mother Of Mine-Charles Harrison-July 28 Nocturne In E Flat-Jascha Heifetz-July 29 Prelude In G Minor-Sergei Rachmaninoff-August 30 Prohibition Blues-Nora Bayes-March 31 Girl of My Dreams-John Steel-July 32 My Little Bimbo Down On The Bimbo Isle-Frank Crumit-December 33 Invitation To The Waltz-Philadelphia Orchestra-February 34 The Barefoot Trail-John McCormack-August 35 Wyoming Lullaby-Mayfair Dance Orchestra-July 36 Quem Vem Atras Fecha a Porta-Bahiano & Izaltina-July 37 Look For The Silver Lining-Lewis James & Elizabeth Spencer-December 38 I'll See You in C-U-B-A-Billy Murray-May 39 NO #39 WAS POSTED 40 Pretty Kitty Kelly-Charles Harrison-September 41 Let The Rest Of The World Go By-Elizabeth Spencer & Charles Hart-March 42 Peggy-Art Hickman & His Orchestra-March 43 After You Get What You Want,You Don't Want It-Van & Schenck-October 44 Sweet And Low-Art Hickman & His Orchestra-February 45 Caboca Bunita-Mario Pinheiro-July 46 Sailing-George Formby-July 47 You Can't Keep A Good Man Down-Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Band-December 48 My Isle Of Golden Dreams-Ben Selvin & His Orchestra-March 49 Sweet Mama (Papa's Gettin' Mad)-Marion Harris-December 50 I'm A Little Lonesome Little Raindrop-Frank Crumit-December *This list was compiled with charts from various western industrialized nations (primarily the USA and UK).