Early 1900s: The 100 Most Popular Songs

Music, 1900s, PCM Charts, Top 100 / By Joe Hummel III

1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]

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1909 Trivia, Fun Facts and Pop Culture History

1909 History, Facts, and TriviaQuick Facts from 1909World-Changing Event: On February 12, 1909, the nation’s largest and most widely recognized civil rights organization was founded. The NAACP was founded on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, in direct response to a race riot in Springfield, Illinois — Abraham Lincoln’s hometown — that had occurred