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Top Popular Recordings 1920 [ edit ] The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the " Discography of American Historical Recordings " website during 1920: [ 3 ] Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.
Dance clubs became enormously popular in the 1920s. Their popularity peaked in the late 1920s and reached into the early 1930s. Dance music came to dominate all forms of popular music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, etc., were all transformed into popular dancing melodies to satiate the public craze for dancing.
Marion Harris (born Mary Ellen Harrison; March 25, 1897 – April 23, 1944) was an American popular singer who was most successful in the late 1910s and the 1920s.She was the first widely-known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs.
In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
Pages in category "20th-century American male singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,650 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "20th-century American singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 4,632 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "1920s in British music" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Vernon Dalhart, one of the first popular country singers, [105] records "Wreck of the Old 97" and "The Prisoner's Song", the latter of which becomes the first country record to sell a million copies. [106] [107] It is the best-selling song of country music's first decade. [108]