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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.