TOP SONGS IN THE USA FOR 1902*
No. Song-Artist-Peak month 1 ARKANSAS TRAVELER-LEN SPENCER-APRIL 2 BILL BAILEY,WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME-ARTHUR COLLINS-August 3 IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME-J.W. MYERS-December 4 ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON-J.W. MYERS-May 5 WAY DOWN IN OLD INDIANA-J.W. MYERS-July 6 GOOD MORNING,CARRIE-BERT WILLIAMS & GEORGE WALKER-February 7 THE MANSION OF ACHING HEARTS-HARRY MacDONOUGH-October 8 THE MANSION OF ACHING HEARTS-Byron G. Harlan-October 9 UNDER THE BAMBOO TREE-Harry MacDonough-December 10 WHEN IT'S ALL GOING OUT AND NOTHING COMING IN-Bert Williams-January 11 The Mansion Of Aching Hearts-J.W. Myers-July 12 The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid-Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan-January 13 Tell Me,Dusky Maiden-Arthur Collins-February 14 Tell Me,Dusky Maiden-Joe Natus-February 15 On A Sunday Afternoon-Edward M.Favor-August 16 Last Day Of School At Pumpkin Center-Cal Stewart-June 17 In The Good Old Summer Time-William Redmond-October 18 Nancy Brown-J.W. Myers-July 19 There's A Lot Of Things You Never Learn At School-Dan Quinn-June 20 Pretty Molly Shannon-J.W. Myers-May 21 Home,Sweet,Home-Harry MacDonough-April 22 For Old Times' Sake-Jere Mahoney-February 23 If Money Talks,It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me-Arthur Collins-December 24 Two Rubes In A Tavern-Byron G.Harlan-November 25 Two Rubes In A Tavern-Frank Stanley-November 26 The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous-Dan Quinn-October 27 Shepherd's Dance-Charles D'Almaine-September 28 Jennie Lee-Harry MacDonough-September 29 Daybreak At Calamity Farm-Len Spencer-August 30 Hiawatha-Dan Quinn-November 31 On A Sunday Afternoon-J.Aldrich Libbey-July 32 Alice,Where Art Thou-Jules Levy-February 33 I Don't Like That Face You Wear-Bert Williams & George Walker-January 34 My Beautiful Irish Maid-Harry MacDonough-December 35 Hiawatha Two-Step-Sousa's Band-November 36 Semper Fidelis-Sousa's Band-April 37 Jack Tar March-Sousa's Band-October 38 My Little Gipsy Maid-J.W. Myers-December 39 The Birds-Joe Belmont-November 40 The Birds-Byron G.Harlan-November 41 Bill Bailey,Won't You Please Come Home-Silas Leachman-October 42 First Rehearsal For The Huskin' Bee-Byron G.Harlan-August 43 First Rehearsal For The Huskin' Bee-Frank Stanley-August 44 Josephine,My Jo-Harry MacDonough-August 45 Bye And Bye You Will Forget Me-S.H. Dudley-June 46 My Carolina Lady-Harry MacDonough-June 47 Pretty Molly Shannon-Mina Hickman-May 48 The Palms-Jules Levy-March 49 The Fortune Telling Man-Bert Williams-February 50 While The Leaves Came Drifting Down-S.H. Dudley-February 51 Bye And Bye You Will Forget Me-Harry MacDonough-February 52 Creole Belles-Metropolitan Orchestra-January 53 On A Sunday Afternoon-Harry MacDonough-August 54 Blaze Away-Fred Van Eps-August 55 Closing Time At The Country Grocery-Byron G.Harlan & Frank Stanley-December 56 I Want To Be A Liddy-Edward M.Favor-November * 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: Jim Walsh Talking Machine World (monthly record industry periodical) Sheet Music Sales ASCAP Record Label Publications:Victor,Edison,Columbia,Zono-Phone Best-selling records information