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Type: 1920s
- Ain't We Got Fun, Performed by: Benson Orchestra
- Ain't We Got Fun, Performed by: Van and Schenk
- Ain't We Got Fun, Performed by: Billy Jones
- April Showers, Performed by: Happiness Boys
- April Showers, Performed by: Al Jolson
- Carolina in the Morning, Performed by: Paul Whiteman
- Daddy, You've Been Like a Mother to Me, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Frankie and Johnny, Performed by:
- Happy Tho' Married, Performed by: Herbert Berliner
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Performed by: Helen Clark and George Wilton
- Jazz Baby, Performed by:
- Makin' Whoopee, Performed by: Louisiana Collegians
- My Mammy, Performed by: Diamond Trio
- My Mammy, Performed by: Al Jolson
- Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, Performed by: Al Jolson
- Second Hand Rose, Performed by: Fannie Brice
- Singing in the Rain, Performed by: Gus Arnheim
- Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Performed by: Al Jolson
- Wabash Blues, Performed by: Isham Jones
Type: Blues
Type: Civil War
- Battle Hymn of the Republic, Performed by: Richard Warrenrath
- Battle Hymn of the Republic, Performed by: Thomas Chalmers
- Blue and the Grey, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Boys of the Old Brigade, Performed by: Chatauqua Preachers' Quartet
- Dixie Land, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- Down Where the Swanee River Flows, Performed by: Hayden Quartet
- Goodbye Dolly Gray, Performed by: Hugh Donovan
- Just Before the Battle, Mother, Performed by: John Young
- Just Before the Battle, Mother, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Marching Through Georgia, Performed by: Harlan and Stanley
- Maryland, My Maryland, Performed by: Herbert Stuart
- My Maryland March, Performed by:
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Performed by: John Young
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, Performed by: S.H. Dudley
- Vacant Chair, Performed by: Hayden Quartet
- Vacant Chair, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- War Songs, Performed by: Victor Male Chorus
- War Songs March, Performed by:
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Performed by: John Terrill
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Performed by: Farrar and Columbia Quartet
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Performed by: John Terrill
Type: Civil War Reunion
Type: French & Indian War
Type: Gilded Age
Type: Irish
Type: Jazz
- Baltimore Buzz, Performed by: Eubie Blake
- Bandana Days/I'm Just Wild About Harry, Performed by: Eubie Blake
- Castle House Rag, Performed by: Europe's Society Orchestra
- Castle Walk, Performed by: Europe's Society Orchestra
- Darktown Strutter's Ball, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Dixie Jass Band One Step, Performed by: Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Down Home Rag, Performed by: Europe's Society Orchestra
- Hesitating Blues, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Hungarian Rag, Performed by: Eubie Blake
- Jazz Baby, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Jazzing Around, Performed by: Eubie Blake
- Livery Stable Blues, Performed by: Original Dixieland Jas Band
- Memphis Blues, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Plantation Echoes, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- St. Louis Blues, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- St. Louis Blues, Performed by: Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Tiger Rag Blues, Performed by: Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Too Much Mustard, Performed by: Europe's Society Orchestra
Type: Minstrel
- Beulah Land, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Cake Walk in Coontown, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginia, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Jim Crow Reel, Performed by: Adelard St. Louis
- Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Medley: Plantation Songs, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- My Old Kentucky Home, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- My Old Kentucky Home, Performed by: Edward M. Favor
- O Susanna, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Old Black Joe, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Old Black Joe, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Old Folks at Home, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Old Folks at Home, Performed by: Florence Easton
- Turkey in the Straw, Performed by: Willie Eckstein
Type: Negro Spiritual
Type: Negro Spirituals
Type: Patriot
Type: Patriotic
- America (My Country Tis of Thee), Performed by: Diamond Four
- America (My Country Tis of Thee), Performed by: George Gaskin
- America the Beautiful, Performed by: Navy Band
- Anchor's Away, Performed by: Navy Band
- Caissons Go Rolling Along, Performed by: U.S. Army Ceremonial Band
- Hail Columbia, Performed by:
- Hail to the Chief, Performed by: U.S. Air Force Concert Band
- Lanky Yankee Boys in Blue, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Marine Hymn, Performed by: U.S. Marine Band
- Stars and Stripes Forever, Performed by: Sodero's Band
- Stars and Stripes Forever, Performed by: Sousa's Band
- Stars and Stripes Forever, Performed by: Vess Ossman
- Star-Spangled Banner, Performed by: Thomas Chalmers
- Star-Spangled Banner, Performed by: Anna Case
- Star-Spangled Banner, Performed by: Diamond Four
- Star-Spangled Banner, Performed by: Hayden Quartet
- Star-Spangled Banner, Performed by: Sousa's Band
- You're a Grand Old Flag, Performed by: Billy Murray
Type: Ragtime
Type: Sacred
- At a Georgia Camp Meeting, Performed by:
- He was Nailed to the Cross for Me, Performed by: Ernest V. Stoneman
- Land of Hope and Glory, Performed by: Clara Butt
- Nearer My God to Thee, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Old Hundred, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Onward Christian Soldiers, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Rock of Ages, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Rock of Ages, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Rock of Ages, Performed by: Robert Price
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Performed by: Henry Burr
Type: Sentimental
Type: Tin Pan Alley
- Alexander's Ragtime Band, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Bicycle Built for Two, Performed by: Canada Remembers Chorus sample
- Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?, Performed by: Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra
- Broadway Hit Medley, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Performed by: Billy Murray
- By the Sea, Performed by:
- Casey Jones, Performed by: Irving Kaufman
- Casey Jones, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Come Josephine in My Flying Machine, Performed by: Ada Jones and Billy Murray
- Come Josephine in My Flying Machine, Performed by: Blanche Ring
- Down by the Old Mill Stream, Performed by:
- Harrigan, Performed by:
- Hello, Ma Baby, Performed by: Len Spencer
- Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, Performed by: Dan W. Quinn
- I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl, Performed by: Ella Retford
- In My Merry Oldsmobile, Performed by:
- In the Good Old Summertime, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- In the Good Old Summertime, Performed by: Robert Price
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Performed by: Henry Burr
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Just Because She Made Dem Goo-goo Eyes, Performed by: John Dobbs
- Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis, Performed by: Robert Price
- Moonlight Bay, Performed by: Premier Quartet
- My Wild Irish Rose, Performed by: Columbia Stellar Quartet
- My Wild Irish Rose, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Oh Dem Golden Slippers, Performed by: Harry C. Brown
- Oh, You Beautiful Doll, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Old Oaken Bucket, Performed by: Henry Burr
- On the Banks of the Wabash, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Pretty Baby, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Pretty Baby, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Pretty Baby, Performed by: Orpheus Quartet
- School Days, Performed by: Byron Harlan
- Shine on Harvest Moon, Performed by: Piano Roll
- Sidewalks of New York, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Smiles, Performed by: Robert Price
- Smiles, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Smiles, Performed by: Fred Van Eps
- Snyder, does Your Mother Know You're Out?, Performed by: George P. Watson
- Some of These Days, Performed by: Sophie Tucker
- Swanee, Performed by: Fred Van Eps
- Sweetheart of Sigma Chi, Performed by:
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Performed by: Edward Meeker
- That's an Irish Lullabye, Performed by: George MacFarlane
- Too-a-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral, Performed by: George MacFarlane
- Under the Bamboo Tree, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Under the Bamboo Tree, Performed by: Marie Cahill
- Vamp, Performed by: Fred Van Eps
- Wait Till the Cows Come Home, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Wait Till the Cows Come Home, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee, Performed by: Heidelberg Quintet
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Performed by: Billy Murray
- When We Are Married, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- When You Were Sweet Sixteen, Performed by: Harry Macdonough
- Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder, Performed by: Edward M. Favor
- Yankee Doodle Boy, Performed by: F.E. Lewis
- Yankee Doodle Boy, Performed by: Billy Murray
Type: World War I
- Aba Daba Honeymoon, Performed by: Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan
- All Of No Man's Land Is Ours, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Are We Downhearted?, Performed by: Arthur Boyton
- Au Revoir But Not Goodbye, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- Bachelor Gay, Performed by: Peter Dawson
- Battle That Wasn't, Performed by: Jolly Jesters
- Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser, Performed by: Mark Sheridan
- Boys in Khaki, Boys in Blue, Performed by: F. Wheeler
- Break the News to Mother, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Colonel Bogey March, Performed by: Henri Miro
- Conscientious Objector, Performed by: Alfred Lester
- Do Something, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Doctor Shelly, Performed by: Harry Champion
- Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You, Performed by: Walter van Brunt
- Don't Take My Darling Boy Away, Performed by: J. Philips and Helen Clark
- Doughboy Jack and Doughnut Jill, Performed by: Geoffrey O'Hara
- Down in the U-17, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Farmyard on the Brain, Performed by: Ernie Mayne
- For Your Country and My Country, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- From the North, South, East, and West, Performed by: Harry Lauder
- Good Bye-ee, Performed by: Courtland and Jeffries
- Good Morning, Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Goodbye Broadway, Hello France, Performed by: American Quartet
- Goodbye Broadway, Hello France, Performed by: American Quintet
- Grand Peace Record, Performed by: Military Band
- Have You Heard of My Boy Jack?, Performed by: Louise Kirkby-Lunn
- Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Hello Central, Get Me No Man's Land, Performed by: Al Jolson
- Here We Are, Here We Are Again!, Performed by: F. Wheeler
- Hoch, Hoch Der Kaiser, Performed by: Whit Cunliffe
- Homes They Left Behind, Performed by: Maggie Teyte
- How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, Performed by: Harry Fay
- How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Hunting the Hun, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Performed by: Morton Harvey
- I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier, Performed by: Morton Harvey
- I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But…, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- I Don't Want to Get Well, Performed by: Van & Schenck
- I May Be Gone for a Long Time, Performed by: Shannon Four
- I'd Feel at Home If They Let…, Performed by: Billy Murray
- If You Were the Olnly Girl in the World, Performed by: Violet Lorraine and George Robey
- It's a Long Way to Berlin, Performed by: Maurice Burkhart
- It's A Long Way to Berlin But We'll Get There, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Performed by: Stanley Kirkby
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Performed by: Billy Murray
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Performed by: Albert Farrington
- It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Performed by: John McCormack
- I've a Bit of a "Blighty One", Performed by: Vesta Tilley
- Joan of Arc, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Keep the Home Fires Burning, Performed by: John McCormack
- Keep the Home Fires Burning, Performed by: Columbia Stellar Quartet
- Keep the Trench Fires Going, Performed by: Henry Burr
- K-K-K-Katy, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Laddie in Khaki, Performed by: Robert Carr
- Let's All Be Americans Now, Performed by: American Quartet
- L-I-B-E-R-T-Y, Performed by: Henry Burr
- L-I-B-E-R-T-Y, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Liberty Bell, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- Liberty Loan March, Performed by: Sousa's Band
- Little Bit of Carpenter, Performed by: Harry Champion
- Lloyd George's Beer, Performed by: Ernie Mayne
- Marching Back to Blighty, Performed by: Harry Cove
- My Choc'late Soldier Sammy Boy, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- My Meatless Day, Performed by: Ernie Mayne
- My Old Iron Cross, Performed by: Harry Champion
- My Sweetheart is Somewhere in France, Performed by: Elizabeth Spencer
- Never Mind the Food Controller, Performed by: Florrie Forde
- Now You've Got the Khaki On, Performed by: Marie Lloyd
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, Performed by: Eddie Cantor
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Oh! It's a Lovely War, Performed by: Courtland and Jeffries
- Oh! Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Old Contemptibles, Performed by: Robert Carr
- On Patrol In No Man's Land, Performed by: Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Hell Fighters Band
- Our Whistling Tommies, Performed by: Royal Court Orchestra
- Over There, Performed by: Nora Bayes
- Over There, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Over There, Performed by: Enrico Caruso
- Over There, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Pack Up Your Troubles, Performed by: Columbia Stellar Quartet
- Pack Up Your Troubles, Performed by: Murray Johnson
- Pack Up Your Troubles, Performed by: Reinald Werrenrath
- Parodies of the Camp, Performed by: Geoffrey O'Hara
- Potsdam, Performed by: Penrose and Whitlock
- Rose of No Man's Land, Performed by: William Thomas
- Rose of No Man's Land, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Rose of Picardy, Performed by: John McCormack
- Roses of Picardy, Performed by: Ernest Pike
- Send Me Away With a Smile, Performed by: John McCormack
- Sergeant Solomon Isaacstein, Performed by: Gus Harris
- Sidney's in Civvies Again, Performed by: Vesta Tilley
- Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts, Performed by: Jack Charman
- Smoke Clouds, Performed by: Herbert Payne
- So Long Mother, Performed by: Columbia Quartet
- Somewhere in France is a Lily, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Somewhere in France, Dear Mother, Performed by: Stanley Krikby
- Sons of Liberty, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Stoney Broke in No Man's Land, Performed by: Frank Miller
- Submarine Attack, Somewhere at Sea, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Sugar, Performed by: Ernie Mayne
- Summertime on Bredon, Performed by: Gervase Elwes
- Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty, Performed by: Florrie Forde
- Tanks that Broke the Ranks, Performed by: Fanning and Fortune
- There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding, Performed by: John McCormack
- There's a Service Flag Flying at Our House, Performed by: Henry Burr
- There's a Vacant Chair at Home, Performed by: Joseph Phillips
- There's a Vacant Chair in Every House Tonight, Performed by: Shannon Four
- They All Look Alike in Khaki, Performed by: Ella Retford
- Three Cheers for Little Belgium, Performed by: Violet Lorraine
- Till the Boys Come Home, Performed by: Stanley Kirkby
- Till We Meet Again, Performed by: Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Price
- Till We Meet Again, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Torpedo and the Whale, Performed by: Columbia Stellar Quartet
- Tow, the Row, Row, Performed by: Whit Cunliffe
- U.S. Field Artillery March, Performed by: Sousa's Band
- United Forces March, Performed by: Metropolitan Military Band
- We All Went Marching Home, Performed by: Black Diamonds Band
- We Didn't Want to Fight, Performed by: Stanley Kirkby
- We Don't Want the Bacon, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- We Stopped Them at the Marne, Performed by: Henry Burr
- We'll Do Our Share, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- We'll Never Let the Old Flag Fall, Performed by: Frederick Wheeler
- What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys, Performed by: Charles Hart
- What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys, Performed by: Henry Burr
- What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Performed by: Tom Clare
- When I Get Back to the U.S.A., Performed by: Billy Murray
- When I Send You a Picture of Berlin, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- When the Lusitania Went Down, Performed by: Herbert Stuart
- When Tommy Comes Marching Home, Performed by: Harry Marlow
- When Uncle Sammy Leads the Band, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- When We've Wound Up the Watch, Performed by: Lorraine and Thorne
- When You're a Long Way from Home, Performed by: Kirby & Cove
- Where Do We Go From Here?, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Where Do We Go From Here?, Performed by: American Quartet
- While They Were Dancing Around, Performed by: Peerless Quartet
- While They Were Dancing Around, Performed by: Henry Burr
- Who Bashed Bill Kaiser?, Performed by: Tom Clare
- Would You Rather Be a Colonel, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Yanks Are At It Again, Performed by: Billy Murray
- Yanks Started Yankin', Performed by: Arthur Fields
- You Can't Beat Us, Performed by: Arthur Fields
- Your King and Country Wants You, Performed by: Edna Thornton
- Your King and Country Wants You, Performed by: Helen Clark
- You're a Grand Old Flag, Performed by: American Quartet
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