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Some concertos by G.P. Telemann.
If you mean the oldest recorded songs it´s a record with Bennie Moten from 1923-1927 or 1928.
I also have Louis Armstrongs Hot Five and Hot Seven from 1924-1927 and some recordings by the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1927.
I do have some recordings from 1888, but none are commercial songs:
August Manns Chorus - "Israel In Egypt" (excerpt) (1888)
unidentified players - "The Lost Chord" (piano and coronet) (1888)
Thomas Edison - Speaking to Mr. Blane (spoken) (1888)
Thomas Edison - First recording (1888)
Going back to pre-electronic recording, I also have the "collected works" of Edouard Leon Scott, which were "recorded" on a phonautograph 1853-1860. The phonautograph could record crude sound, but no playback device existed (so these sounds were not heard until the 21st century). These are the oldest recorded sounds on earth. The earlier sounds are very indistinct noises, but the later ones successfully recorded a human voice singing. The Youtube clip is a composite of all of them.
My grandparents were big on Steven Foster, their time in life was growing up after the Civil War ended. They wanted the grandkids to learn to play a musical instrument. Grandad was a damn good fiddle player.
My mom gave me her lp collection a couple decades ago and one lp includes Steven Foster songs Oh Susanna!, Camptown Races, Beautiful Dreamer, Old Folks At Home, and many other Foster songs. Foster died in 1864, the songs were written in the 1850's.
That lp is by the Roger Wagner Choral, released by Capitol Records around 1957 (I think!), simply titled "Songs Of Steven Foster."
I can't compete with any of you all that named songs from the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, but in looking through my collection, I knew that it had to be a song from either the King or Queen of Soul, James Brown or Aretha Franklin.
And it turns out to be James Brown's 1956 single(but not from an album), Please, Please, Please.
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Two songs were written in XVIII-XIX centuries
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