TOP SONGS IN THE USA FOR 1897*
No. Song-Artist-Peak month 1 ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH-GEORGE J.GASKIN-NOVEMBER 2 SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY-GEORGE J.GASKIN-June 3 THE STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER-SOUSA'S BAND-August 4 MY MOTHER WAS A LADY-DAN QUINN-May 5 MY GAL IS A HIGH BORN LADY-LEN SPENCER-April 6 OH,MR. JOHNSON,TURN ME LOOSE-LEN SPENCER-March 7 THERE'S A LITTLE STAR SHINING FOR YOU-DAN QUINN-October 8 A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN-Len Spencer-February 9 SWEET ROSIE O'GRADY-J.W. Myers-June 10 A HOT TIME IN THE OLD TOWN-George J.Gaskin-January 11 Ragtime Medley-Vess Ossman-December 12 Crappy Dan-Len Spencer-August 13 You're Not The Only Pebble On The Beach-Dan Quinn-May 14 Bye And Bye You Will Forgive Me-Roger Harding-September 15 Bye And Bye You Will Forgive Me-Len Spencer-September 16 Dancing In The Dark-Sousa's Band-July 17 The Old Fashoined Mother-George J.Gaskin-September 18 You're Not The Only Peblle On The Beach-Len Spencer-May 19 Departure From The Mountains-George Schweinfest-August 20 Hot Stuff Patrol-Vess Ossman-June 21 Yankee Doodle-Vess Ossman-July 22 Alice,Where Art Thou-Jules Levy-March 23 Dream Of Passion Waltz-Edward Issler & His Orchestra-October * 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