TOP SONGS IN THE USA FOR 1898*
No. Song-Artist-Peak month 1 MY OLD NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME-ARTHUR COLLINS-DECEMBER 2 BREAK THE NEWS TO MOTHER-GEORGE J.GASKIN-April 3 SHE WAS BRED IN OLD KENTUCKY-GEORGE J.GASKIN-August 4 UNCLE JOSH'S ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK-CAL STEWART-June 5 AT A GEORGIA MEETING CAMP-DAN QUINN-November 6 ON THE BANKS OF THE WABASH-STEVE PORTER-January 7 SHE WAS HAPPY TILL SHE MET YOU-DAN QUINN-October 8 SHE'S MORE TO BE PITIED THAN CENSURED-Steve Porter-September 9 I DON'T LIKE NO CHEAP MAN-Len Spencer-July 10 I'M OLD BUT I'M AWFULLY TOUGH (LAUGHING SONG)-Cal Stewart-October 11 My Old Kentucky Home-Edison Male Quartette-February 12 Break The News To Mother-Edison Male Quartette-April 13 Soldiers In The Park-Dan Quinn-November 14 Uncle Josh At The Opera-Cal Stewart-May 15 Little Old New York Is Good Enough For Me-George J.Gaskin-December 16 All I Wants Is My Chickens-Len Spencer-July 17 Poor O' Hoolihan-Dan Quinn-November 18 She Was Bred In Old Kentucky-Albert Campbell-September 19 The Moth And The Flame-Albert Campbell-October 20 Uncle Josh At The Department Stewart-Cal Stewart-June 21 Uncle Josh On A Fifth Avenue Bus-Cal Stewart-September 22 Zizzy Ze Zum Zum-Arthur Collins-December 23 On The Banks Of The Wabash-Roger Harding-February 24 At Georgia Camp Meeting-Vess Ossman-December 25 When We Are Married-Estella Mann & John Havens-November 26 Break The News To My Mother-Steve Porter-September 27 Uncle Josh On A Bicycle-Cal Stewart-August 28 Uncle Josh On A Street Car-Cal Stewart-July 29 Jack's The Boy-S.H. Dudley-July 30 Casey As A Fortune Teller-Russell Hunting-April 31 She Was Bred In Old Kentucky-Haydn Quartet-September 32 Bye Bye,My Honey-Billy Golden-June * 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