3 Recorded popular music

• "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk )
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  
• "Always!" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers )
  - May Kelso on Edison Records
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
  
• "Asleep In The Deep" (w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie)
  - William Hooley on Edison Records
  
• "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills)
  - John Terrell on Berliner Records
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records & Columbia Records
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
• "Ave Maria" (w. (Fr) Paul Bernard m. Charles Gounod)
  - M. A. Guarini on Edison Records
  - W. D. McFarland on Berliner Records
  
• "Because" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  
• "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
  - J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
  
• "The Boy Guessed Right" (w.m. Lionel Monckton )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records & Berliner Records
  
• "The Cake Walk" (trad US)
  - Eugene Stratton with piano Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Calvary" (w. Henry Vaughn m. Paul Rodney )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  
• " Comin' Thro' The Rye " (w. Robert Burns m. trad)
  - Syria Lamonte with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Down The Road" (w.m. Fred Gilbert )
  - Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Eli Green's Cakewalk" (w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky)
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Edison Records
  
• "Emmet's Lullaby" (w.m. J. K. Emmet )
  - George P. Watson on Edison Records
  
• "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza)
  - Hotel Cecil Orchestra on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
  - Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "God Save The Queen"
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  
• "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
  - Eugene Cowles on Berliner Records
  - William Hooley on Edison Records
  
• "Hands Across The Sea March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
  - Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  
• "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani )
  - violin Chris De Arth on Berliner Records
  
• "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard )
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  - Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
  
• "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams )
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
  
• "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop )
  - whistling John Yorke Atlee on Berliner Records
  
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
  
• "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan)
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  - Edward M. Favor on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  
• "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn )
  - Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "If Only You Were Mine" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  
• "It's A Great Big Shame" (w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn)
  - Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Jack's The Boy" (Greenbank, Jones)
  - H. Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Just As The Sun Went Down" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall )
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
  
• "Just One Girl" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - H. Scott Russell with p. Amy Williams on Berliner Gramophone
  - J. W. Myers on Columbia Records
• "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch )
  - William Hooley on Edison Records
  
• "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  
• "Little Dolly Daydream" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
  - Eugene Stratton on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide A. Proctor m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
  - William F. Hooley on Berliner Records
  
• "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  
• "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" (w.m. Charles K. Harris )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
  - John Terrell on Berliner Records
  
• "Molly's The Girl For Me"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
  
• "The Moth And The Flame" (w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
  
• "My Little Georgia Rose" (w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt)
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
  
• "My Old Dutch" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle )
  - Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "My Old New Hampshire Home" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
  - Byron G. Harlan & A. D. Madeira on Edison Records
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Berliner Records
  - The Greater New York Quartette on Columbia Records
• "My Wild Irish Rose" (w.m. Chauncey Olcott)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  
• "Night Hymn At Sea"
  - Clara Butt & Kennerley Rumford on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "The Old Brigade" (w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Orlando Barri )
  - H. Scott Russell with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Old Man's Story"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia records
  
• "The Old Oaken Bucket" (w. Samuel Woodworth m. E. Kaillmark )
  - Haydn Quartette on Berliner Records
  
• "The Organ Grinder's Serenade"
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
  
• "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" (w.m. J. Fred Helf )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "She Is The Belle Of New York" (w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker )
  - Frank Lawton with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter )
  - Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
• "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld )
  - Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
  - Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
• "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - Len Spencer on Columbia Records
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
  - Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
• "The Soldiers Of The Queen" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
  - Albert Christian with p. Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent)
  - Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" (w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  - Herbert Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
  
• " 'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer " (w. Thomas Moore m. Richard Alfred Milliken )
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
  
• "Toreador Song" (w. H. Meilac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet)
  - Montague Borwell on Berliner Gramophone
  
• "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills)
  - Len Spencer on Berliner Records
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records & Berliner Records
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
  
• "Yes, Let Me Like A Soldier Fall" (w. Edward Fitzball m. Vincent Wallace )
  - Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner Records
  
• "You've Been A Good Old Wagon" (Harney)
  - Len Spencer on Columbia Records & Berliner Records
  

4 Classical music

• Arnold Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht

5 Opera

6 Musical theater

• El Capitan     London production
• Floradora     London production
• Helter-Skelter     Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street      Broadway production
• San Toy      London production

7 Births

• April 29 - Duke Ellington
• June 12 - Gene Kardos , US bandleader
• June 16 - Helen Traubel
• June 19 - Pat Ballard
• July 1 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music
• July 17 - James Cagney, US actor, singer and dancer
• December 2 - John Barbirolli, conductor

8 Deaths

• June 3 - Johann Strauss II
• October 13 - Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ-builder

1899

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