Number 1 Songs in 1925 — UK and US Charts
UK #1
"Show Me the Way to Go Home"
Irving King
This cheerful drinking song became enormously popular in 1925, an ironic hit given Prohibition was in full force in America. It remained a pub singalong favourite for decades.
US #1
"Sweet Georgia Brown"
Ben Bernie and His Orchestra
This jazz standard, later adopted by the Harlem Globetrotters as their theme tune, was a massive hit in 1925. It epitomised the era's love of swinging, upbeat jazz.
Biggest Films of 1925 — Box Office Hits
The Gold Rush
Box Office: $4.2 million
Charlie Chaplin's comic masterpiece about a lone prospector in the Klondike featured iconic scenes — the bread roll dance and eating a boot — that remain among the most famous in cinema history.
Fashion and Style of 1925
Fashion, clothing and visual culture from the era
Architecture and Buildings of 1925
Buildings completed and structures opened in 1925