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What's your favorite song from the 1890s?

spnkrispnkri Posts: 137
edited August 2009 in Other Music
It's hard to pick just one, but I guess I'd have to say "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin. I know there aren't any words, but that song is just so catchy.
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  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    thats definately later than the 1890s. id say more like 1910s or 20s
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    I guess anything in the Tin Pan Alley,post war era,Maybe,
    the charleston.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Ali wrote:
    I guess anything in the Tin Pan Alley,post war era,Maybe,
    the charleston.
    Yet Tin Pan Alley was actually the era of 1905-about 1913 or so.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    I'll be honest i don't know much from that period.

    I guess my musical taste pick up more in the late 20's and 30's with jazz/ big band type stuff. I am a woody guthrie fan too, but i'm just not familar with songs from that era.
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  • JumpingtheGreenJumpingtheGreen Posts: 32
    This an awesome post.

    HAHAHAHA.

    I'm loving it, really.

    I don't even go back that far musically sorry.
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  • adam42381adam42381 Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,515
    I'd have to go with: Kiss Me, Honey, Do—S. H. Dudley (1899)
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    adam42381 wrote:
    I'd have to go with: Kiss Me, Honey, Do—S. H. Dudley (1899)

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    After a long thought...I choose Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Prince - 1899
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  • Wordless ChorusWordless Chorus Posts: 27
    Definitely "I've been working on the railroad" from 1894. I've been rocking out to that a lot lately.
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    old man riverrrrrrrrrrrrrr
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    Awesome thread. :D

    According to Wikipedia, "Keep on the Sunny Side" was written in 1899. The Carter Family popularized it in the 1920's and it was featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou? by The Whites. Gotta love a good church hymn.
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