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[edit] Published popular music
- "Abie My Boy" w.m. L.Silberman, A. Grock, Herbert Rule & Tom McGhee
- "Alcoholic Blues" w. Edward Laska, m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
- "Alice Blue Gown" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
- "All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down In Quaker Town" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Pete Wendling
- "And He'd Say "Oo-La-La Wee Wee!"" w. George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby
- "Any Old Place With You" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "Ask the Stars" by Frank M. Stammers
- "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams
- "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" w.m. Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
- "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)" w.m. Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley
- "Camp Meeting Blues" by Dabney's Band
- "Cielito Lindo" w.m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez
- "Daddy Long Legs" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young
- "Dardanella" w. Fred Fisher m. Felix Bernard & Johnny S. Black
- "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way" w.m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins
- "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" w.m. Ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack
- "Hold Me" w.m. Art Hickman & Ben Black
- "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" w. Spencer Williams m. Clarence Williams
- "I Gave Her That" w. m. B. G. De Sylva & Al Jolson
- "I Lost My Heart In Dixieland" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "I Might be Your "Once-In-A-While"" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
- "I Never Realized" w.m. Cole Porter
- "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" w.m. Armand J. Piron
- "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" w. John W. Kellette m. Jaan Kenbrovin (pseudonym of James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent)
- "Indian Summer" w. Al Dubin m. Victor Herbert Words 1939.
- "Irene" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney. Introduced by Edith Day in the musical Irene
- "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Jazz Baby" w. Blanche Merrill & William Jerome m. William Jerome
- "Just Like a Gipsy" w.m. Seymour Simons & Nora Bayes
- "The Lamplit Hour" m. Arthur A. Penn, w. Thomas Burke
- "Let The Rest Of The World Go By" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
- "Letter Song" by William LeBaron
- "Little Girls, Goodbye" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
- "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses" w. Leslie Cooke m. John Openshaw
- "Mah Lindy Lou" w.m. Lily Strickland
- "Mammy O' Mine" w. William Tracey m. Maceo Pinkard
- "Mandy" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Mirandy" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
- "The Moon Shines On The Moonshine" w. Frank De Witt m. Robin Hood Bowers. Introduced by Harry Williams in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
- "My Baby's Arms" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
- "My Isle Of Golden Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Blaufuss
- "Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems To Care)" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "O" w. Byron Gay m. Arnold Johnson
- "Oh By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're The Only Girl For Me)" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You" w. Roy Turk & George Jessel, m. Willy White
- "Oh! What A Pal Was Mary" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
- "Old-Fashioned Garden" w.m. Cole Porter
- "On Miami Shore" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
- "On Patrol In No Man's Land" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
- "Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland And Let Me Into Paradise" w. Jack Yellen m. Gus Van & Joe Schenck
- "Peggy" w. Harry Williams m. Neil Moret
- "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Prohibition Blues" w. Ring Lardner m. Nora Bayes
- "Royal Garden Blues" w.m. Clarence Williams & Spencer Williams
- "Sahara (We'll Soon Be Dry Like You)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Jean Schwartz. Introduced in the musical Monte Cristo, Jr.
- "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" w.m. Carey Morgan & Lee David
- "Smilin' Through" w.m. Arthur A. Penn
- "Someday Sweetheart" w.m. John Spikes & Benjamin Spikes
- "Sugar Blues" w. Lucy Fletcher m. Clarence Williams
- "Swanee" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
- "Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" w. Harold G. Frost m. F. H. Klickmann
- "Sweet Kisses That Came In The Night" w. Lew Brown & Eddie Buzzell m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Take Me To The Land Of Jazz" m. Pete Wendling
- "Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home)" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
- "Tell Me" w. J. Will Callahan m. Max Kortlander
- "That Naughty Waltz" w. Edwin Stanley m. Sol P. Levy
- "There's More To The Kiss Than the X-X-X" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
- "Tulip Time" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
- "The Vamp" w.m. Byron Gay
- "Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys" w. Lew Brown m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "What'll We Do On A Saturday Night When The Town Goes Dry" w.m. Harry Ruby
- "When Honey Sings An Old Time Song" w.m. Joseph B. Carey
- "When They're Old Enough To Know Better, It's Better To Leave Them Alone" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Ruby
- "Who Played Poker With Pocahontas When John Smith Went Away?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred Ahlert
- "Winnie The Window Cleaner" w.m. Herman Darewski
- "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" w. Eugene Lockhart m. Ernest Seitz
- "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" w.m. Al Jolson, Gus Kahn & B. G. DeSylva
- "You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake On Tea" w. Rennold Wolf m. Irving Berlin
- "You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me" w. Benee Russell & Bernie Grossman m. George J. Bennett
- "You'd Be Surprised" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Your Eyes Have Told Me So" w. Gus Kahn & Egbert Van Alstyne m. Walter Blaufuss
- "You're A Million Miles From Nowhere When You're One Little Mile From Home" w. Sam Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
[edit] Hit recordings
[edit] Classical music
[edit] Musical theater
[edit] Births
- January 1 – Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist
- January 25 – Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
- January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
- February 2 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano
- February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
- March 10 – Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
- March 17 – Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
- March 19 – Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
- March 28 – D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
- April 3 – Ervin Drake, songwriter
- April 14 – Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
- April 16 – Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d.2009)
- April 21
- May 3 – Pete Seeger, folk singer
- May 16 – Liberace, pianist (d. 1987)
- May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
- May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (d. 1991)
- May 19 – Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
- May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress and dancer
- June 11 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
- June 17 – Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
- June 22 – Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
- July 31 – Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
- August 11 – Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
- August 13 – George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer
- September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer
- September 3 – Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
- September 16
- October 11 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
- October 18 – Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
- October 26 – James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
- November 15 – Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
- November 23 – Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
- December 6 – Blaž Lenger, folk singer (d. 2006)
- December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
- December 10 – Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- December 25 – Naushad, film score composer (d. 2006)
- date unknown – Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
[edit] Deaths
- February 4 – Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
- March 6 – Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- March 8 – Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
- March 23 – Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
- April 9 – James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
- April 24 – Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
- April 25 – Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
- June 2 – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
- June 22 – Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
- August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
- August 4 – Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
- August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b. 1857)
- August 18 – Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
- September 11 – Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
- September 27 – Adelina Patti, opera singer (b. 1843)
- October 17 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
- November 19 – Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
- December 16 – Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
- December 21 – Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
- December 27 – Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
- December 31 – Marie van Zandt, operatic soprano (b. 1861)
- date unknown
- probable – Henry Ford, jazz bassist (b. c. 1898)