Hi, I hope you can help me a friend is going to be 100 next week and I am making her a book with fact of 1909.. the one thing I am struggling with is music of 1909 as I keep getting americans top charts not UK or even Ireland as I am only made aware there was no Northern Ireland until 1926!!
hmmm...found a compilation site of early hits of the 1900s...only 1909 entries are:
39. Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet - 1909 (by Stanley Murphy & Percy Wenrich)
70. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now - 1909 (by Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams, Joseph E. Howard & Harold Orlob)
76. By the Light of the Silvery Moon - 1909 (by Edward Madden & Gus Edwards)
100. Uncle Josh in Society - 1909
Search was for "Irish pop hits 1909" but unfortunately the country of these hits isn't mentioned (probably U.S. - Anchors Aweigh, the traditional Navy song, was listed). That list is at http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Pop-Old/1900s.html
It's possible they didn't track charts in Ireland or the U.K. back then, you know. I'll work on a few more searches for you, though. _________________ <(: @ :)>
Otherwise, just use your favorite search engine (google, yahoo, bing, etc.) and find variations on the search topic "Irish songs 1909" to try and bring up sites that might have hidden gems. There seems to be no real compilation of British or Irish hit songs from 1909.
There is an Irish folk music topic on wikipedia too, that may turn something up for you. _________________ <(: @ :)>
Thank you so much, i found one by the fisk jubilee singers which was recorded and a hit in 1909 although they sang the song first in 1887 sweet chariot carry me home trying now to find it by the orginial singers to download as everyone knows that song! even my kids who are aged between 12 and 20!
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a Negro spiritual. The first recording was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1909. It was written in 1862 by Wallace Willis. Not sure if that would have been popular in the UK in 1909. The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an African American a cappella ensemble, consisting of students at Fisk University, that was first organized in 1871.
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