Popular Records of 1918 (Part One)

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 K-K-K-KATY (STAMMERING SONG) – BILLY MURRAY
2 DARKTOWN STRUTTERS’ BALL – COLLINS & HARLAN
3 BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC –
CHARLES HARRISON & COLUMBIA STELLAR QUARTETTE
4 OH, HOW I HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING – ARTHUR FIELDS
5 ARE YOU FROM HEAVEN? – HENRY BURR
6 HINDUSTAN – JOSEPH C. SMITH’S ORCHESTRA
7 EVERTHING IS PEACHES DOWN IN GEORGIA – AMERICAN QUARTET
8 HELLO CENTRAL, GIVE ME NO MAN’S LAND – AL JOLSON
9 I’M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS – CHARLES HARRISON
"Oh,How I Hate To Get Up in the Morning"
was a featured song of 30 year old Irvin Berlin's
Broadway show of 1918 entitled "Yip Yip, Yaphank" -
Sargent Berlin donated money earned from the hit production to the U. S. Army
and sang this song himself in the show.