The 25 Greatest Vaudeville Songs (1893-1922)

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Vaudeville is a theatrical music genre that was popular roughly from the 1880s until the 1930s. A vaudeville performance would typically entail singers, dancer and comedians. While there are only a few sources available to determine what are the 25 greatest vaudeville songs, this video provides a fascinating visual and auditory window to the entertainment of yestercentury.

Note:
All film footage that appears in this video was recorded the corresponding year of the song playing.

Song list:
1893 George J. Gaskin - After the Ball
1902 Arthur Collins - Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home
1904 Haydn Quartet - Sweet Adeline (You’re the Flower of My Heart)
1904 Billy Murray - Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
1905 Billy Murray - Give My Regards to Broadway
1905 Billy Murray - Yankee Doodle Boy
1906 Billy Murray - You’re a Grand Old Flag (aka "The Grand Old Rag")
1906 Byron Harlan - Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1907 Byron Harlan - School Days (When We Were a Couple of Kids)
1907 Byron Harlan - My Gal Sal
1908 Billy Murray & the Haydn Quartet - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
1909 Harry MacDonough with Elise Stevenson (as Miss Walton) - Shine on, Harvest Moon
1909 Henry Burr - I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now
1909 Haydn Quartet - Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
1910 Billy Murray with the Haydn Quartet - By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1910 American Quartet with Billy Murray - Casey Jones
1911 Arthur Collins with Byron Harlan - Alexander’s Ragtime Band
1911 Sophie Tucker - Some of These Days
1911 Harry MacDonough - Down by the Old Mill Stream
1912 American Quartet - Moonlight Bay
1918 Arthur Collins with Byron Harlan - Darktown Strutters’ Ball
1918 Al Jolson - Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
1919 Marion Harris - After You’ve Gone
1920 Al Jolson - Swanee
1922 Al Jolson - April Showers