RUBIN'S ROCK N ROLL DISCOGRAPHY REFERENCE

"Let The Music Do The Talking!"

TOP MUSIC HITS FOR EACH YEAR (THE CHARTS)
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Top 100 Hits of 1920
1. "Swanee" - Al Jolson
2. "When My Baby Smiles At Me" - Ted Lewis
3. "Whispering" - Paul Whiteman
4. "St. Louis Blues" - Marion Harris
5. "Dardanella" - Ben Selvin
6. "The Love Nest" - John Steel or Art Hickman
7. "Hold Me" - Art Hickman
8. "Alice Blue Gown" - Edith Day
9. "I've Got My Captain Working For Me Now" - Al Jolson
10. "Wang Wang Blues" - Paul Whiteman
11. "The Japanese Sandman" - Paul Whiteman
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Top 100 Hits of 1921
1. "I Ain't Got Nobody" - Marion Harris
2. "Ain't We Got Fun?" - Van & Schneck
3. "Second Hand Rose" - Fanny Brice
4. "Song of India" - Paul Whiteman
5. "O-H-I-O (O-My-O!)" - Al Jolson
6. "All by Myself" - Ted Lewis
7. "Down By The O-HI-O" - Billy Murray & Billy Jones
8. "My Man" - Aileen Stanley
9. "Wabash Blues" - Isham Jones
10. "I'm A Jazz Vampire" - Marion Harris
11. "Margie" - Eddie Cantor
12. "Look For The Silver Lining" - Marion Harris
13. "Make Believe" - Nora Bayes
14. "My Mammy" - Aileen Stanley or Paul Whiteman
15. "Say It With Music" - Paul Whiteman
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Top 100 Hits of 1922
1. "April Showers" - Al Jolson
2. "Three O'Clock In The Morning" - Paul Whiteman
3. "Way Down In New Orleans" - Peerless Quartet
4. "Stumbling" - Paul Whiteman
5. "Hot Lips" - Paul Whiteman
6. "My Man" - Fanny Brice
7. "My Buddy" - Henry Burr
8. "Angel Child" - Al Jolson
9. "On The Alamo" - Isham Jones
10. "There'll Be Some Changes Made" - Ethel Waters
11. "Do It Again" - Paul Whiteman
12. "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean" - Gallagher & Shean
13. "Sheik of Araby" - Ray Miller
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Top 100 Hits of 1923
1. "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" - Paul Whiteman
2. "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" - Paul Whiteman
3. "Toot Toot Tootsie (Goodbye)" - Al Jolson
4. "That Old Gang of Mine" - Billy Murray & Ed Smalle
5. "Yes! We Have No Bananas" - Billy Jones or Ben Selvin
6. "Down Hearted Blues" - Bessie Smith
7. "Dreamy Melody" - Art Landry
8. "Carolina In The Morning" - Van & Schenck
9. "Swingin' Down the Lane" - Isham Jones
10. "No, No Nora" - Eddie Cantor
11. "Bambalina" - Paul Whiteman
12. "Love Sends A Little Gift of Roses" - Carl Fenton
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Top 100 Hits of 1924
1. "California, Here I Come" - Al Jolson
2. "It Had To Be You" - Isham Jones
3. "Rhapsody In Blue" - Paul Whiteman & George Gershwin
4. "Charleston" - Arthur Gibbs
5. "Wreck of the Old 97" - Vernon Dalhart
6. "Sleep" - Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
7. "Somebody Loves Me" - Paul Whiteman
8. "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" - Wendell Hall
9. "Somebody Stole My Gal" - Ted Weems
10. "Limehouse Blues" - Paul Whiteman
11. "Linger A While" - Paul Whiteman
12. "Spain" - Isam Jones
13. "What'll I Do?" - Paul Whiteman
14. "Memory Lane" - Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
15. "I Wonder What's Become of Sally?" - Al Jolson
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Top 100 Hits of 1925
1. "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen" - Marian Anderson
2. "Tea For Two" - Marion Harris
3. "Sweet Georgia Brown" - Ben Bernie
4. "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)" - Eddie Cantor
5. "Charleston" - Paul Whiteman
6. "I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle" - Bessie Smith
7. "Collegiate" - Fred Waring
8. "When You and I Were Seventeen" - John McCormack
9. "The Titanic" - Ernest Van Stoneman
10. "All Alone" - John McCormack or Al Jolson or Paul Whiteman
11. "I'll See You In My Dreams" - Isaham Jones & Ray Miller
12. "Manhattan" - Isham Jones
13. "Yes Sir! That's My Baby" - Gene Austin
14. "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" - Ben Selvin (& Cavaliers)
15. "O! Katharina" - Ted Lewis
16. "Remember" - Isham Jones
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Top 100 Hits of 1926
1. "When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob-Bob-Bobbin' Along" - Al Jolson
2. "Always" - George Olson or Vincent Lopez
3. "Baby Face" - Jan Garber
4. "The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart
5. "Bye Bye Blackbird" - Gene Austin
6. "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" - Gene Austin
7. "Muskrat Ramble" - Louis Armstrong
8. "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World" - Al Jolson
9. "Sleepy Time Gal" - Ben Bernie
10. "The Birth of the Blues" - Paul Whiteman
11. "Do, Do, Do" - Gertrude Lawrence
12. "Black Bottom" - Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
13. "Who?" - George Olson
14. "Velencia" - Paul Whiteman
15. "Gimme A Lil' Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?" - Whispering Jack Smaith
16. "Breezin' Along With The Breeze" - Johnny Marvin
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Top 100 Hits of 1927
1. "Ain't She Sweet?" - Ben Bernie
2. "My Blue Heaven" - Gene Austin
3. "Someone To Watch Over Me" - Gertrude Lawrence
4. "Me and My Shadow" - Whispering Jack Smith
5. "Singin' The Blues" - Frankie Trumbauer
6. "Blue Skies" - Ben Selvin
7. "Varsity Drag" - George Olsen
8. "Lucky Lindy" - Vernon Dalhart
9. "Lindbergh (Eagle of the U.S.A.)" - Vernon Dalhart
10. "In A Mist" - Bix Beiderbecke
11. "In A Little Spanish Town" - Paul Whiteman
12. "Some Of These Days" - Sophie Tucker & Ted Lewis
13. "Tonight You Belong To Me" - Gene Austin
14. "At Sundown (When Love Is Calling Me Home)" - George Olson
15. "Two Black Crows - Parts 1 & 2 (The Early Bird Catches The Worm)" - Moran & Mack
16. "Mr. Jelly Lord" - Jelly Roll Morton's Red-Hot Peppers
17. "Russian Lullaby" - Roger Wolfe Kahn
18. "Charmaine!" - Guy Lombardo
19. "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" - Red Nichols
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Top 100 Hits of 1928
1. "Mack The Knife"
2. "I Scream-You Scream-We All Scream For Ice Cream" - Fred Waring
3. "Ol' Man River" - Paul Robeson
4. "The Man I Love" - Marion Harris
5. "Let's Misbehave" - Ben Bernie
6. "I Wanna Be Loved By You" - Helen Kane
7. "Sonny Boy" - Al Jolson
8. "Black and Tan Fantasy" - Duke Ellington
9. "My Melancholy Baby" - Gene Austin
10. "I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dear)" - Ukelele Ike (Cliff Edwards)
11. "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)" - Jimmie Rogers
12. "The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers on)" - Ruth Etting
13. "Ramona" - Paul Whiteman or Gene Austin
14. "West End Blues" - Louie Armstrong
15. "Among My Souvenirs" - Paul Whiteman
16. "Together" - Paul Whiteman
17. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" - Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians
18. "Jeannine (I Dream of Lilac Time) - Gene Austin
19. "There's a Rainbow Round My Shoulder" - Al Jolson
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Top 100 Hits of 1929
1. "When You're Smiling" - Louis Armstrong
2. "Makin' Whoopee" - Eddie Cantor
3. "Singin' In The Rain" - Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike)
4. "Tip Toe Through The Tulips With Me" - Nick Lucas
5. "Pagan Love Song" - Copley Palza Orchestra (Bob Haring)
6. "Louise" - Maurice Chevalier
7. "Honey" - Rudy Vallee
8. "Am I Blue?" - Ethel Waters
9. "Sweethearts On Parade" - Guy Lombardo
10. "Great Day" - Paul Whiteman
11. "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" - Johnny Hamp's Kentuckey Serenaders
12. "Carolina Moon" - Gene Austin
13. "A Precious Little Thing Called Love" - George Olson
14. "The Wedding of the Painted Doll" - Leo Reisman
15. "Pin Top's Boogie Woogie" - Clarence Smith
16. "Little Pal" - Al Jolson
17. "Little Orphan Annie" - Coon-Sanders Orchestra
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