Popular Records of 1918 (Part Two)

what the public loved to listen to in the year that THE GREAT WAR ended and Spanish Flu raged Thanks to the kind written permission of Archeophone of Champaign, IL for presenting the following wonderful clear original recordings from 102 years ago:
1 ROCK-A-BYE YOUR BABY WITH A DIXIE MELODY – AL JOLSON
2 THEY WERE ALL OUT OF STEP BUT JIM – BILLY MURRY
3 I DON’T WANT TO GET WELL – VAN & SCHENCK
4 I’M SORRY I MADE YOU CRY – HENRY BURR
5 JUST A BABY’S PRAYER AT TWILIGHT
(FOR HER DADDY OVER THERE) – HENRY BURR
6 HAIL! HAIL! THE GANG’S ALL HERE –
IRVING KAUFMAN & COLUMBIA QUARTETTE
7 SMILES – JOSEPH C. SMITH’S ORCHESTRA
8 OH! FRENCHY – ARTHUR FIELDS
9 OVER THERE – ENRICO CARUSO
Here is the chorus to OVER THERE
“Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware –
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over, over there.”
written by George M. Cohan (1878-1942)
he also wrote several dozen shows for Broadway and elsewhere
and over 300 songs, including in addition to Over There:
You're a Grand Old Rag (changed due to protest to You're a Grand Old Flag)
Give My Regards to Broadway
The Yankee Doodle Boy