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• January 24 - Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No. 5
  Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen)
  Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, FS 97 is a symphony composed by Carl Nielsen in Denmark between 1920 and 1922. It was first performed in Copenhagen on 24 January 1922 with the composer conducting. It is one of the two of Nielsen's six symphonies lacking a subtitle....
  
  in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
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• October 19 - Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
  's Pictures at an Exhibition
  Pictures at an Exhibition
  Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite in ten movements composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists...
  
  is premiered in Paris
• Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
  
   leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
• Richard Tauber
  Richard Tauber
  Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang".-Early life:...
  
   joins the Vienna State Opera
  Vienna State Opera
  The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...
  
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• Kid Ory
  Kid Ory
  Edward "Kid" Ory was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.-Biography:...
  
   makes his first recordings.
• All songs written in this year or earlier are now public domain
  Public domain
  Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
  
   in the United States.

Published popular music

• "Aggravatin' Papa" w.m. Roy Turk
  Roy Turk
  Roy Kenneth Turk was an American songwriter. A lyricist, he frequently collaborated with composer Fred E. Ahlert – their popular 1928 song "Mean to Me" has become a jazz standard. He worked with many other composers, including for film lyrics...
  
  , J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt
• "Ain't It A Shame" w.m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown
• "All Over Nothing At All" w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule
• "Along The Road To Gundagai
  Along the Road to Gundagai
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  " w.m. Jack O'Hagan
• "L'Amour, Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)" w.(Eng) Catherine Chisholm Cushing m. Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  
• "Angel Child" w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis
  Benny Davis
  Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.-Life and career:...
  
   m. Abner Silver
  Abner Silver
  Abner Silver was an American songwriter who worked primarily during the Tin Pan Alley era of the craft. He was born on December 28, 1899, in New York....
  
  
• "Baby Blue Eyes" w.m. Jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel
  George Jessel (actor)
  George Albert Jessel was an American illustrated song "model," actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies...
  
  
• "Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood
  Leo Wood
  Leo Wood was a songwriter and lyricist for popular songs in the United States. He is best remembered as the songwriter of the 1920’s hit Somebody Stole My Gal. Wood wrote lyrics for many of the top songwriters of the day, including Theodore F. Morse...
  
   & Ray Lopez
• "Blue (And Broken Hearted)" w. Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke was an American songwriter.Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians...
  
   & Edgar Leslie
  Edgar Leslie
  Edgar Leslie was an American songwriter. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan. Other notable artists he worked with are:...
  
   m. Lou Handman
  Lou Handman
  Lou Handman is a composer born in New York City on September 10, 1894 and died in Flushing, New York on December 9, 1956. In his early career toured in vaudeville shows in Australia and New York. Handman worked closely with Roy Turk...
  
  
• "A Brown Bird Singing" w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood
• "Bugle Call Rag
  Bugle Call Rag
  "Bugle Call Rag" is a jazz standard written by Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel. It was first recorded by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings in 1922 as "Bugle Call Blues", although later renditions as well as the published sheet music and the song's copyright all used the title "Bugle Call Rag"...
  
  " m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel
  Elmer Schoebel
  Elmer Schoebel was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.Schoebel played along to silent films in Champaign, Illinois early in his career. After moving on to vaudeville late in the 1910s, he played with the 20th Century Jazz Band in Chicago in 1920...
  
  
• "Carolina in the Morning
  Carolina in the Morning
  "Carolina in the Morning" is a popular song with words by Gus Kahn and music by Walter Donaldson, first published in 1922 by Jerome H. Remick & Co....
  
  " w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "Carolina Shout" m. James P. Johnson
  James P. Johnson
  James P. Johnson was an American pianist and composer...
  
  
• "Chicago
  Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)
  "Chicago" is a popular song. It was written by Fred Fisher and was published in 1922. The song has been recorded by many artists, but the best-known version is by Frank Sinatra....
  
  " w.m. Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher. Fisher founded Fred Fisher Music Publishing Company in 1907. He was born as Albert von Breitenbach in Cologne...
  
  
• "China Boy
  China Boy
  "China Boy" is a 1922 popular song written by Phil Boutelje and Dick Winfree. It was introduced in vaudeville by Henry E. Murtagh and popularized by Paul Whiteman's 1929 Columbia recording featuring Bix Beiderbecke...
  
  " w.m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje
• "Crinoline Days" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Dancing Fool" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Dearest (You're The Nearest To My Heart)" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst
• "Do It Again
  Do It Again (George Gershwin and Buddy DeSylva song)
  "Do It Again" is an American popular song by composer George Gershwin and lyricist Buddy DeSylva. The song premiered in the 1922 Broadway show The French Doll, as performed by actress Irène Bordoni.-Background:...
  
  " w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
  
  
• "Down In Midnight Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Downhearted Blues
  Downhearted Blues
  "Downhearted Blues" is a blues song composed by Alberta Hunter and Lovie Austin. The first line immediately sets the theme for the song: "Gee but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you"....
  
  " w.m. Alberta Hunter
  Alberta Hunter
  Alberta Hunter was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith...
  
  
• "Dream On" (An Indian Lullaby)
  Dream On (An Indian Lullaby)
  "Dream On " is a popular song written by B.G. DeSylva with music composed by Herbert Victor. The song is a Cherokee mother's lullaby to her child. The lyrics as first written are:...
  
   w. B.G DeSylva, m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler
  Ted Koehler
  Ted L. Koehler was an American lyricist.-Life and career:Koehler was born in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway, and he also...
  
  , Frank Magine & C. Naset
• "Farewell Blues
  Farewell Blues
  "Farewell Blues" is a 1922 jazz standard written by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and Elmer Schoebel. The song was recorded on August 29, 1922 in Richmond, Indiana and released as Gennett 4966A. It was first released by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and soon was covered by several jazz bands...
  
  " w.m. Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel
  Elmer Schoebel
  Elmer Schoebel was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.Schoebel played along to silent films in Champaign, Illinois early in his career. After moving on to vaudeville late in the 1910s, he played with the 20th Century Jazz Band in Chicago in 1920...
  
  
• "Fate" by Byron Gay
• "Georgette" w. Lew Brown
  Lew Brown
  Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...
  
   m. Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson
  Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "Georgia" w. Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (lyricist)
  Howard Johnson was a song lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Songwriter , author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York. He was educated in high school and in private music study...
  
   m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "Goin' Home" w.m. Williams Arms Fisher
• "Hot Lips
  Hot Lips
  "Hot Lips" is a popular song written by jazz trumpeter Henry Busse, Henry Lange, and Lou Davis. The song was a #1 hit for Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra...
  
  " w.m. Henry Busse
  Henry Busse
  Henry Busse Sr. was a jazz trumpeter known for work with sweet bands and big bands.-Early life:Born May 19, 1894 to a generational German Band family. Henry Busse studied violin and then trumpet under his Oompah Band leader uncle...
  
  , Henry Lange, Lou Davis
• "I Found A Four Leaf Clover" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
  
  
• "I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert
• "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin
  Ira Gershwin
  Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
  
   m. George Gershwin
  George Gershwin
  George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
  
  
• "In The Little Red Schoolhouse" w.m. Al Wilson & James A. Brennan
• "A Kiss In The Dark" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "The Lady In Ermine" w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman
  Al Goodman
  Al Goodman was a conductor, songwriter, stage composer, musical director, arranger, and pianist....
  
  
• "Lady Of The Evening" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  . Introduced by John Steel
  John Steel (singer)
  John W. Steel was an American tenor. He was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919 and 1920 and Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues of 1922 and 1923.-Early life:...
  
   in the Music Box Revue of 1922
  Music Box Revue
  Music Box Revue was a musical theatre revue with music by Irving Berlin. Featuring contributions from a number of writers including Robert Benchley, it debuted at the Music Box Theatre in 1921, where it ran for 440 performances.-References:...
  
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• "Limehouse Blues
  Limehouse Blues
  Limehouse Blues is a world famous jazz standard , as well as a 1934 crime film is set in London's Chinese district and starring George Raft and Anna May Wong. The film is named after the tune...
  
  " w. Douglas Furber
  Douglas Furber
  Douglas Furber was a British lyricist and playwright.Furber is best known for the lyrics to the 1937 song The Lambeth Walk and the libretto to the musical Me and My Girl, composed by Noel Gay, from which it came. This show made broadcasting history when in 1939 it became the first full length...
  
   m. Philip Braham
  Philip Braham
  Philip Braham was an English composer of the early twentieth century, chiefly associated with theatrical work.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Lovesick Blues
  Lovesick Blues
  "Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded...
  
  " w. Irving Mills
  Irving Mills
  Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...
  
   m. Cliff Friend
  Cliff Friend
  Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...
  
   
  
• "Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam)" w. Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   m. Milton Ager
  Milton Ager
  Milton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...
  
  
• "March With Me!" w. Douglas Furber m. Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  
• "Mary, Dear" w.m. Harry DeCosta & M. K. Jerome
• "Mister Gallagher And Mister Shean" w.m. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean
  Gallagher and Shean
  Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful double act on vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Edward Gallagher and Al Shean .-Career:...
  
  
• "My Buddy
  My Buddy (song)
  "My Buddy" is a popular song.The music was written by Walter Donaldson, the lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was published in 1922.-Recorded versions:*Gene Autry*Chet Baker *Teresa Brewer *Benny Carter*Rosemary Clooney...
  
  " w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "My Honey's Loving Arms" w. Herman Ruby m. Joseph Meyer
• "My Rambler Rose" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• "My Sweet Hortense" w. Joe Young & Sam Lewis m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "My Word You Do Look Queer" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
• "'Neath The South Sea Moon" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• "Nellie Kelly I Love You" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "On The Alamo" w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   m. Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
  
  
• "On The Gin Gin Ginny Shore" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "Oo-oo Ernest Are You Earnest With Me" w. Sidney Clare
  Sidney Clare
  Sidney Clare was an American comedian, dancer and composer. His best known songs include "On the Good Ship Lollipop" , "You’re My Thrill" , and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" .In 1929, Clare wrote his...
  
   & Harry Tobias
  Harry Tobias
  Harry Tobias was an American lyricist. Like his younger brother Charles, he is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame....
  
   m. Cliff Friend
• "Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w. Harry Graham m. Robert Stolz
• "Rosalie" w.m. Hugo Frey
• "Rose Of The Rio Grande" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren
  Harry Warren
  Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
  
   & Ross Gorman
• "Round On The End And High In The Middle (O-Hi-O)" w.m. Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter and pacifist.-Songs:His hits included*"Peg O' My Heart"*"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"*"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"...
  
   & Bert Hanlon
• "Runnin' Wild" w. Joe Grey & Leo Wood m. A. Harrington Gibbs
• "Say It While Dancing" w. Benny Davis
  Benny Davis
  Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.-Life and career:...
  
   m. Abner Silver
  Abner Silver
  Abner Silver was an American songwriter who worked primarily during the Tin Pan Alley era of the craft. He was born on December 28, 1899, in New York....
  
  
• "Some Sunny Day" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Stumbling" w.m. Zez Confrey
  Zez Confrey
  Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey was an American composer and performer of piano music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys," and "Dizzy Fingers."-Life and career:...
  
  
• "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do" w.m. Clarence Williams, Porter Grainger & Graham Prince
• "That Da Da Strain" w. Mamie Medina m. Edgar Dowell
• "Three O'Clock in the Morning
  Three O'Clock in the Morning
  "Three O’clock in the Morning" is a popular good-night waltz.The lyrics were written by Theodora Morse to music written by Julian Robledo. The song was recorded in 1922 by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra...
  
  " w. Dorothy Terris m. Julian Robledo
• "Throw Me A Kiss" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• "Thru' The Night" w. Virginia K. Logan m. Frederic Knight Logan
• "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" w.m. Dan Russo, Ted Fio RitoGus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   & Ernie Erdman
• "Trees" w. Joyce Kilmer
  Joyce Kilmer
  Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his religious faith, Kilmer is remembered most for a short poem entitled "Trees" , which was published in...
  
   m. Oscar Rasbach
  Oscar Rasbach
  Oscar Rasbach was an American pianist and composer and arranger of art songs and works for piano.-Biography:...
  
  
• "'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
  Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
  "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" is a popular song with music by John Turner Layton, Jr. and lyrics by Henry Creamer. First published in 1922, Creamer and Layton advertised it as "A Southern Song, without A Mammy, A Mule, Or A Moon", a dig at some of the Tin Pan Alley clichés of the era.It was...
  
  " w. Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   m. Turner Layton
  Turner Layton
  Turner Layton , born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American songwriter, singer and pianist. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard...
  
  
• "The West, A Nest, And You" w. Larry Yoell m. Billy Hill
• "When Hearts Are Young" w. Cyrus Wood m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
   & Al Goodman
• "When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down" w.m. Richard Howard
• "When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Blues" w.m. Jack Frost & Jimmy McHugh
  Jimmy McHugh
  James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
  
  
• "Who Cares?" w. Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   m. Milton Ager
  Milton Ager
  Milton Ager was an American composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician. After spending time as an accompanist to silent...
  
  
• "Wonderful One
  Wonderful One
  "Wonderful One" is a popular song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on January 25, 1923 in New York and was released as Victor 19019-B. The record reached no. 3 on the Billboard chart....
  
  " w. Dorothy Terris
  Theodora Morse
  Theodora Morse was an American song writer and composer.She was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated to produce a number of popular songs.-Background:...
  
   m. Paul Whiteman
  Paul Whiteman
  Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz"...
  
   & Ferde Grofe
  Ferde Grofé
  Ferde Grofé was a prominent American composer, arranger and pianist. During the 1920s and 1930s, he went by the name Ferdie Grofé.-Early life:...
  
  
• "You Know You Belong To Somebody Else" w. Eugene West m. James V. Monaco
• "You Remind Me Of My Mother" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "You Tell Her, I S-t-u-t-t-e-r" w. Billy Rose
  Billy Rose
  William "Billy" Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"...
  
   m. Cliff Friend
  Cliff Friend
  Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...
  
  

Top hits on records

• "April Showers" by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Hot Lips
  Hot Lips
  "Hot Lips" is a popular song written by jazz trumpeter Henry Busse, Henry Lange, and Lou Davis. The song was a #1 hit for Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra...
  
  " by Paul Whiteman
  Paul Whiteman
  Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz"...
  
  's Orchestra
• "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" recorded by
  • Billy Jones
    Billy Jones (singer)
    William Reese Jones was a tenor who recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program....
    
     & Ernie Hare
    Ernie Hare
    Thomas Ernest Hare was a bass/baritone who recorded prolifically during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program.-Career:...
    
    
  • Billy Murray
    Billy Murray (singer)
    William Thomas "Billy" Murray was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century...
    
    
  • Gallagher and Shean
    Gallagher and Shean
    Gallagher & Shean was a highly successful double act on vaudeville and Broadway in the 1910s and 1920s, consisting of Edward Gallagher and Al Shean .-Career:...
    
    
• "My Buddy" by Henry Burr
  Henry Burr
  Henry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
  
  
• "Oh, Is She Dumb!/Susie" by Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
  
  
• "On the Alamo" by Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
  
   & His Orchestra
• "Three O'Clock In the Morning" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
• "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" by Margaret Young
  Margaret Young
  Margaret Young was a popular singer and comedienne in the United States in the 1920s.-Recording career:...
  
  

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Atterberg
  Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Swedish composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Brahms, Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes.-Biography:Atterberg was born in Gothenburg as the son of the...
  
   - Cello Concerto
• Vittorio Giannini
  Vittorio Giannini
  Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...
  
   - Stabat Mater
• Hamilton Harty
  Hamilton Harty
  Sir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...
  
   - Piano Concerto
• Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith
  Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
  
   - String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 22
• Manuel Infante
  Manuel Infante
  Manuel Infante was a Spanish composer long resident in France.A native of Osuna, Infante studied piano and composition with Enrique Morera, and settled in Paris in 1909. While there, he presented numerous concerts of Spanish music; a Spanish nationalist element is predominant in his own works...
  
   - Sevillana "Impresiones de fiesta en Sevilla"
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - Fynsk Foraar
  Fynsk Foraar
  Fynsk Foraar , for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Opus 18, is Carl Nielsen's last major choral work. Written to accompany a prizewinning text by Aage Bernsten, it was first performed in Odense's Kvæghal on 8 July 1922 where it was conduced by Georg Høeberg.-Background:Aage Bernstein, a medical...
  
  
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - Wind Quintet
  Wind Quintet (Nielsen)
  Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet or, more correctly, the Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon, Opus 43, was composed early in 1922 in Gothenburg, Sweden, where it was first performed privately at the home of Herman and Lisa Mannheimer on 30 April 1922.-Background:According to his...
  
  
• William Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
   - Façade
  Façade (poem)
  Façade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Façade – An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions....
  
  (subsequently revised)

Opera

• Jean Cras
  Jean Cras
  Jean Émile Paul Cras was a 20th century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions were inspired by his native Brittany, his travels to Africa, and most of all, by his sea voyages...
  
   - Polyphème
  Polyphème
  Polyphème is an opera composed by Jean Cras with a libretto by Albert Samain. It was written by Cras during World War I and was premiered in Paris in 1922, giving Cras a burst of notoriety in the French press.-Text:...
  
  
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   - Amadis
  Amadis (Massenet)
  Amadis is an opera in three acts with prologue by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie based on the Spanish knight-errantry romance Amadis de Gaula, originally of Portuguese origin, by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo....
  
  
• The Fakir of Benares
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - Mavra
  Mavra
  Mavra is a one-act opera buffa composed by Igor Stravinsky, and one of the earliest works of Stravinsky's 'neo-classical' period. The libretto of the opera, by Boris Kochno, is based on Aleksandr Pushkin's The Little House in Kolomna. Mavra is about 25 minutes long, and features two arias, a...
  
  

Musical theater

• The Cabaret Girl
  The Cabaret Girl
  The Cabaret Girl is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by George Grossmith, Jr. and P. G. Wodehouse. It was produced by Grossmith and J. A. E...
  
  (Music: Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  , Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse
  P. G. Wodehouse
  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
  
   and George Grossmith, Jr.
  George Grossmith, Jr.
  George Grossmith, Jr. was a British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies...
  
  ) London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on September 19 and ran for 361 performances
• The Hotel Mouse
  The Hotel Mouse
  The Hotel Mouse is 1923 British silent crime film directed by Fred Paul and starring Lillian Hall-Davis, Campbell Gullan and Warwick Ward. It was based on a play by Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon.-Cast:* Lillian Hall-Davis - Mauricette...
  
  Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   production opened at the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...
  
   on March 13 and ran for 88 performances
• Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly
  Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 musical comedy film based on the stage musical by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923. The film was written by Jack McGowan and directed by Norman Taurog...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances
• Make It Snappy Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on April 13 and ran for 96 performances. Starring Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
  
  , Lew Hearn, J. Harold Murray
  J. Harold Murray
  .J. Harold Murray was an American baritone. For more than a decade, during the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties, he contributed to the development of musical theater by bridging vaudeville, operetta and the modern American musical...
  
  , Nan Halperin, Georgie Hale and Tot Qualters.
• The Music Box Revue of 1922
  Music Box Revue
  Music Box Revue was a musical theatre revue with music by Irving Berlin. Featuring contributions from a number of writers including Robert Benchley, it debuted at the Music Box Theatre in 1921, where it ran for 440 performances.-References:...
  
  opened at the Music Box Theatre
  Music Box Theatre
  The Music Box Theater is a Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C. Howard Crane and constructed by composer Irving Berlin and producer Sam H. Harris specifically to...
  
   on October 23 and ran for 330 performances
• Phi-Phi
  Phi-Phi
  Phi-Phi is an opérette légère in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar. The piece was one which founded the new style of French comédie musicale, the first to really use the latest rhythms of jazz along with a plot which emphasised...
  
  London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre
  Pavilion Theatre
  Pavilion Theatre may refer to:*Pavilion Theatre , Scotland*Pavilion Theatre , part of the Bournemouth International Centre complex*Pavilion Theatre , southern England...
  
   on August 16 and ran for 132 performances
• Queen O' Hearts Broadway production opened at the Cohan Theatre on October 10 and ran for 40 performances
• Whirled into Happiness
  Whirled into Happiness
  Whirled into Happiness is a musical comedy with music by Robert Stolz, and book and lyrics by Harry Graham, adapted from Stolz's Der Tanz ins Glück, with a libretto by Robert Bodanzky and Bruno Hardt-Warden...
  
  London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on May 18 and ran for 246 performances

Births

• January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Rampal
  Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."-Early years:...
  
  , flautist (d. 2000)
• January 16 - Ernesto Bonino
  Ernesto Bonino
  Ernesto Pietro Bonino was an Italian singer of pop and jazz standards whose peak of popularity was during the 1940s and 50s....
  
  , Italian singer
• February 1 - Renata Tebaldi
  Renata Tebaldi
  Renata Tebaldi was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period...
  
  , operatic soprano (d. 2004)
• February 16 - Sir Geraint Evans
  Geraint Evans
  Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans was a Welsh baritone or bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff and Wozzeck...
  
  , operatic baritone (d. 1992)
• February 17 - Tommy Edwards
  Tommy Edwards
  Tommy Edwards was a singer and songwriter. His biggest-selling record was with the multi-million-selling song, "It's All in the Game."-Career:...
  
  , singer (d. 1969)
• February 19 - Fredell Lack
  Fredell Lack
  Fredell Lack is an American violinist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she is retired from a position as the C. W...
  
  , US violinist
• March 28 - Felice Chiusano
  Felice Chiusano
  Felice Chiusano was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a popular Italian vocal quartet.-Biography:Chiusano was born in Fondi, in the province of Latina of southern Lazio....
  
  , Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...
  
  ) (d. 1990)
• April 4 - Elmer Bernstein
  Elmer Bernstein
  Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...
  
  , film composer (d. 2004)
• April 5 - Gale Storm
  Gale Storm
  Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...
  
  , singer and actress (d. 2009)
• April 7 - Mongo Santamaría
  Mongo Santamaría
  Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All...
  
  , percussionist (d. 2003)
• April 14 - Ali Akbar Khan
  Ali Akbar Khan
  Ali Akbar Khan , often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad , was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod...
  
  , Indian sarod player (d. 2009)
• April 22 - Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus
  Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1979)
• May 17 - Dennis Brain
  Dennis Brain
  Dennis Brain was a British virtuoso horn player and was largely credited for popularizing the horn as a solo classical instrument with the post-war British public...
  
  , horn virtuoso (d. 1957)
• May 25 - Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen
  Kitty Kallen is an American popular singer who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, "Little Things Mean a Lot" in 1954.-Career:...
  
  , US singer
• May 29 - Iannis Xenakis
  Iannis Xenakis
  Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
  
  , composer (d. 2001)
• June 10 - Judy Garland
  Judy Garland
  Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 1969)
• June 24 - Tata Giacobetti
  Tata Giacobetti
  Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra, a very famous Italian vocal quartet.-Biography:...
  
  , Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra
  Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...
  
  ) (d. 1988)
• August 11 - Ron Grainer
  Ron Grainer
  Ronald Erle “Ron” Grainer was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his film and television music.- Biography :...
  
  , television composer (d. 1981)
• August 31 - John Hanson
  John Hanson (singer)
  John Hanson was a Canadian-born British tenor and actor, who starred in several West End musicals during the 1950s and 1960s....
  
  , singer and actor (d. 1998)
• September 3 - Salli Terri
  Salli Terri
  Salli C. Terri was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter.-Biography:...
  
  , singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
• September 13 - Yma Sumac
  Yma Súmac
  Yma Sumac was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.Yma...
  
  , Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
• September 16 - Janis Paige
  Janis Paige
  Janis Paige is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. Born Donna Mae Tjaden in Tacoma, Washington, she began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows...
  
  , US singer and actress
• September 18 - Ray Steadman-Allen
  Ray Steadman-Allen
  Lieutenant Colonel Ray Steadman-Allen is a composer of choral and brass band music for the Salvation Army and for band competition....
  
  , composer for Salvation Army bands
• October 17 - Luiz Bonfá
  Luiz Bonfá
  Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer best known for the compositions he penned for the film Black Orpheus.-Biography:...
  
  , guitarist and composer (d. 2001)

Deaths

• January 26 - Luigi Denza
  Luigi Denza
  Luigi Denza , was an Italian composer.Denza was born at Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples. He studied music under Saverio Mercadante and Paolo Serrao at the Naples Conservatory. Later, he moved to London and became a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in 1898...
  
  , composer (b. 1846)
• March 4 - Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
  , star of the Ziegfeld Follies
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
  (b. 1875)
• March 10 - Hans Sitt
  Hans Sitt
  Jan Hanuš Sitt, known as Hans Sitt, , was a Bohemian-German violinist, violist, teacher, and composer. During his lifetime, he was regarded as one of the foremost teachers of violin...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1850)
• March 22 - Nikolay Sokolov, composer (b. 1859)
• April 12 - František Ondříček
  František Ondrícek
  František Ondříček was a Czech violinist and composer. He gave the first performance of the Violin Concerto by Antonín Dvořák, and his achievements were recognised by the rare award of honorary membership of the Philharmonic Society of London in 1891.Ondříček was born in Prague, the son of the...
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1857)
• April 18 - Percy Hilder Miles
  Percy Hilder Miles
  Percy Hilder Miles was an English composer, conductor and violinist. Among his students at the Royal Academy of Music was Rebecca Clarke, and among Miles' associates was Lionel Tertis.Miles had earlier been a student at the Royal Academy of Music, which he joined in June 1893 and where his teachers...
  
  , violinist, composer and teacher (b.1878)
• April 21 - Alessandro Moreschi
  Alessandro Moreschi
  Alessandro Moreschi was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings.-Life:...
  
  , the last known castrato singer of the Vatican.(b. 1858)
• April 29 - Kyrylo Stetsenko
  Kyrylo Stetsenko
  Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became an Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.- Early life and Education :Kyrylo...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1882) (typhus)
• May 2 - Ada Jones
  Ada Jones
  Ada Jones was a popular mezzo-soprano who recorded from 1905 to the early 1920s. She was born in Lancashire, England but moved with her family to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of six in 1879...
  
  , US singer (b. 1873)
• May 7 - Max Wagenknecht
  Max Wagenknecht
  Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music. He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Free State of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life...
  
  , composer for organ and piano (b. 1857)
• May 15 - Harry Williams songwriter and music publisher (b. 1879)
• May 18 - Eugenia Burzio
  Eugenia Burzio
  Eugenia Burzio was an Italian operatic soprano known for her vibrant voice and passionate style of singing.She was particularly prominent in the verismo repertoire, creating the role of Delia Terzaghi in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Goffredo Mameli as well as singing Minnie in the Italian premiere of...
  
  , Italian operatic soprano (b. 1872)
• May 22 - Carl Teike
  Carl Teike
  Carl Albert Hermann Teike was a German composer who wrote over 100 military marches and twenty concert works.-Biography:...
  
  , composer (b. 1864)
• May 31 - Rutland Barrington
  Rutland Barrington
  Rutland Barrington was an English singer, actor, comedian, and Edwardian musical comedy star. Best remembered for originating the lyric baritone roles in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas from 1877 to 1896, his performing career spanned more than four decades...
  
  , baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
  D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
  The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. The company performed nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until it closed in 1982. It was revived in 1988 and...
  
  
• June 5 - Lillian Russell
  Lillian Russell
  Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.Russell was born in Iowa but raised in Chicago...
  
  , US singer and actress (b. 1860)
• June 20 - Vittorio Monti
  Vittorio Monti
  Vittorio Monti was an Italian composer, violinist, and conductor.Monti was born in Naples, where he studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella...
  
  , composer (b. 1868)
• July 24 - George Thorne
  George Thorne
  George Thorne, was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the comic baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, especially on tour and in the original New York City productions...
  
  , baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
  D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
  The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional light opera company that staged Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. The company performed nearly year-round in the UK and sometimes toured in Europe, North America and elsewhere, from the 1870s until it closed in 1982. It was revived in 1988 and...
  
   (b. 1856)
• August 5 - William Seidel
  Seidel Band Instrument Company
  The Seidel Band Instrument Company was a short-lived manufacturer of musical instruments located in Elkhart, Indiana.-History:The company was founded by William F. Seidel . Markneukirchen, lying on the border of the Czech Republic is one of the leading centers of musical instrument manufacturing in...
  
  , Band instrument manufacturer (died 1922 - suicide)
• August 13 - Tom Turpin
  Tom Turpin
  Thomas Million John Turpin was an African-American composer of ragtime music.Tom Turpin was born in Savannah, Georgia, a son of John L. Turpin and Lulu Waters Turpin. In his early twenties he opened a saloon in St...
  
  , ragtime composer (b. 1871)
• August 18 - Dame Genevieve Ward
  Genevieve Ward
  Dame Genevieve Ward DBE , born Lucy Genevieve Teresa Ward, was an American-born British soprano and actress.She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1921.-Life and career:...
  
  , soprano (b. 1837)
• August 19 - Felipe Pedrell
  Felipe Pedrell
  Felip Pedrell , was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain...
  
  , composer (b. 1841)
• August 22 - Sofia Scalchi
  Sofia Scalchi
  Sofia Scalchi was an Italian operatic contralto who could also sing in the mezzo-soprano range. Her career was international, and she appeared at leading theatres in both Europe and America.-Singing career:...
  
  , operatic contralto (b. 1850)
• October 7 – Marie Lloyd
  Marie Lloyd
  Matilda Alice Victoria Wood was an English music hall singer, best known as Marie Lloyd. Her ability to add lewdness to the most innocent of lyrics led to frequent clashes with the guardians of morality...
  
  , British music-hall singer (b. 1870)
• October 27 - Rita Fornia
  Rita Fornia
  Rita Fornia was an American opera singer. She began her career in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century singing coloratura soprano roles. Early on in her career her voice darkened and dropped slightly causing her to focus more within the mezzo-soprano repertoire while still singing some...
  
  , US operatic soprano (b. 1878)
• November 14 - Karl Michael Ziehrer
  Karl Michael Ziehrer
  Karl Michael Ziehrer was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family; most notably Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss....
  
  , composer and bandmaster (b. 1843)
• December 30 - Richard Zeckwer
  Richard Zeckwer
  Richard Zeckwer was a composer and music teacher.He was born in Stendal and studied at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre before moving to Philadelphia, where he died...
  
  , composer and music teacher (b. 1850)
• date unknown - Alfred Lamy
  Alfred Lamy
  Alfred Lamy was a French maker of bows.Son of Joseph Jean Baptiste Lamy was born in Mirecourt, Vosges, France. He was apprenticed in Mirecourt with Bazin and later worked for Cuniot-Hury.Lamy established his own business around 1919....
  
  , maker of violin bows (b. 1886)