POP CULTURE MADNESS TOP 100 SONGS OF THE 1800s*
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)
*as posted on their website at:http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1800s.php