TOP SONGS IN THE USA FOR 1894*
No. Song-Artist-Peak month 1 SAY AU REVOIR,BUT NOT GOODBYE-EDWARD M.FAVOR-MAY 2 AND HER GOLDEN HAIR WAS HANGING DOWN HER BACK-DAN QUINN-December 3 THE LIBERTY BELL-U.S. MARINE BAND-March 4 SWEET MARIE-GEORGE J.GASKIN-February 5 MY PEARL IS A BOWERY GIRL-DAN QUINN-October 6 DEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS-SILAS LEACHMAN-July 7 YANKEE DOODLE-VESS OSSMAN-June 8 CASEY AT DENN MURPHY'S WAKE-Russell Hunting-November 9 LINDLEY,DOES YOU LOVE ME?-Dan Quinn-August 10 WE WERE SWEETHEARTS,NELL AND I-George J.Gaskin-August 11 Casey As Insurance Agent-Russell Hunting-January 12 Manhattan Beach-U.S. Marine Band-December 13 Maggie Murphy's Home-Len Spencer-November 14 Say Au Revoir,But Not Goodbye-George J.Gaskin-May 15 The Heart Bowed Down-J.W. Myers-February 16 The Old Oaken Bucket-Manhansett Quartette-January * 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: Phonogram (early 1890s record industry periodical) 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