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Songs from the Year 1916

This page lists the top songs of 1916 in the source charts. The way that the various charts are combined to reach this final list is described on the in the site generation page.

There are almost no charts from before 1920 so this list is heavily determined by very few entries.

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Al Jolson	I Sent My Wife to the Thousand Isles	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Sep 1916 (7 weeks), Brazil 20 of 1918
2	Billy Murray	I Love a Piano	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Apr 1916 (8 weeks), Brazil 23 of 1917
3	John McCormack	The Sunshine of Your Smile	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Dec 1916 (7 weeks), Brazil 24 of 1918
4	Columbia Mixed Double Quartet	America	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Aug 1916 (6 weeks), Brazil 25 of 1918
5	John McCormack	Somewhere a Voice is Calling	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Jan 1916 (9 weeks), Brazil 27 of 1917
6	Peerless Quartet	The Lights of My Home Town	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Mar 1916 (7 weeks), Brazil 28 of 1917
7	Billy Murray	Pretty Baby	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Oct 1916 (6 weeks), Brazil 29 of 1918
8	The Prince's Orchestra	The Star Spangled Banner	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Jul 1916 (8 weeks), Brazil 29 of 1917
9	Sophie Braslau	Birds in the Night (A Lullaby)	1916	US Bullfrog 2 - Jul 1916 (5 weeks), Brazil 16 of 1917
10	Al Jolson	You're a Dangerous Girl	1916	US Bullfrog 2 - Sep 1916 (6 weeks), Brazil 40 of 1918
11	Henry Burr & Albert Campbell	There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Jul 1916 (6 weeks)
12	The Prince's Orchestra	Hello, Hawaii, How are You?	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Apr 1916 (12 weeks)
13	Orpheus Quartet	Turn Back the Universe & Give Me Yesterday	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Nov 1916 (10 weeks)
14	Harry MacDonough	The Girl on the Magazine	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Apr 1916 (9 weeks)
15	Marguerite Farrell	If I Knock the 'L' Out of Kelly (It Would Still be Kelly to Me)	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Sep 1916 (7 weeks)
16	Henry Burr	Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Jun 1916 (10 weeks)
17	Henry Burr	M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Feb 1916 (11 weeks)
18	Vicente Celestino	Flor do Mal	1916	Brazil 1 of 1916
19	Walter Glynne	I Passed By Your Window	1916	Peel list 1 of 1916
20	Arthur Collins & Byron G Harlan	Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wachi Woo (That's Love in Honolulu)	1916	US Bullfrog 1 - Oct 1916 (9 weeks)