1900s

Showing 3 songs from the 1900s

Spiritual

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Fisk Jubilee Singers

1909

Willis, a Choctaw freedman, wrote it, and the Fisk quartet's 1909 Victor disc now sits in the National Recording Registry.

★ 6.8

Tin Pan Alley

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Haydn Quartet

1908

Jack Norworth scribbled the lyric on a subway ride, years before he saw an actual major league game.

★ 4.9

Patriotic · March

You're a Grand Old Flag

Billy Murray

1906

Cohan called it 'You're a Grand Old Rag' until objections forced the change; a million sheet-music copies followed.

★ 2.5