[daler]

And how many 60+ year-olds in 1975 could list the top songs and artists from 1925?

It’s mind-boggling to think of how different the two 50-year time spans are.

[dfwgator]

I think in 1925 the top songs were based on the purchases of sheet music, not records.

[Fiji Hill]

Sweet Georgia Brown by Ben Bernie & His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra, a hot dance tune, was #1 on July 4, 2025. Isham Jones' version was also a bestseller.

This opus had just knocked Vernon Dalhart's The Prisoner's Song out of the top spot. Although this song's lyrics don't make sense, "The Prisoner's Song" was probably the biggest hit of the interwar years. Vernon Dalhart would go on to be the bestselling male vocalist of the 1920s. His guitarist Carson Robison would go on to record Remember Pearl Harbor and I'm No Communist, which woke folks these days find to be highly politically incorrect.