Events

• January 5 – 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....
  
   makes his début on Italian radio.
• January 15 – Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen
  Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
  
  's Quatuor pour la fin du temps
  Quatuor pour la fin du temps
  Quatuor pour la fin du temps, also known by its English title Quartet for the End of Time, is a piece of chamber music by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was premiered in 1941...
  
  is premiered in Stalag VIIIA in Silesia
  Silesia
  Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...
  
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• January 20 – Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
  's String Quartet No. 6
  String Quartet No. 6 (Bartók)
  The String Quartet No. 6 by Béla Bartók was written from August to November, 1939 in Budapest.The work is in four movements:#Mesto - Vivace#Mesto - Marcia#Mesto - Burletta#Mesto - Molto tranquillo...
  
  is premièred in New York City.
• February 11 – Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
   receives his first gold disc, for Chattanooga Choo Choo.
• May 10 – London's Queen's Hall, venue for the Promenade Concerts, is bombed by the Luftwaffe. The Proms re-locate to the Royal Albert Hall
  Royal Albert Hall
  The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
  
  .
• August 18 – In a brutal police operation in Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
  
  , over 300 Swing Kids
  Swing Kids
  The Swing Kids were a group of jazz and swing lovers in Germany in the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year-old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well...
  
   are arrested, marking the end of tolerance to swing music.
• Alan Lomax
  Alan Lomax
  Alan Lomax was an American folklorist and ethnomusicologist. He was one of the great field collectors of folk music of the 20th century, recording thousands of songs in the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, the Caribbean, Italy, and Spain.In his later career, Lomax advanced his theories of...
  
   (working for the Library of Congress
  Library of Congress
  The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
  
  ) discovers Muddy Waters
  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
  
   and Son House
  Son House
  Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...
  
  , among others
• Les Paul
  Les Paul
  Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
  
   designs and builds the first solid-body electric guitar.
• Woody Guthrie
  Woody Guthrie
  Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
  
   writes and records "Roll on Columbia
  Roll on Columbia
  "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" is an American folk song written in 1941 by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, who popularized the song through his own recording of it. One of the most popular songs in the history of the United States, it glamorized the harnessing of the Columbia River in the Pacific...
  
  " in Portland, Oregon
  Portland, Oregon
  Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
  
   on a commission from the Bonneville Power Administration
  Bonneville Power Administration
  The Bonneville Power Administration is an American federal agency based in the Pacific Northwest. BPA was created by an act of Congress in 1937 to market electric power from the Bonneville Dam located on the Columbia River and to construct facilities necessary to transmit that power...
  
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• Enrico Gentile
  Enrico Gentile
  Enrico Gentile was an Italian singer of 1940s.In 1940 he founded a vocal quartet named Quartetto Egie together with Tata Giacobetti, Iacopo Jacomelli and Enrico De Angelis. They made their debut on 27 May 1940 at the Valle Theatre in Rome. They performed the song Bambina dall'abito blu...
  
   leaves Quartetto Ritmo
  Quartetto Ritmo
  Quartetto Ritmo was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Egie, after Iacopo Jacomelli left the formation...
  
  . 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....
  
   replaces him and the group is renamed 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...
  
  .
• Dutch Leschan sisters of Trio Lescano
  Trio Lescano
  Trio Lescano or Lescano Trio was a vocal trio singing close harmony. The trio became extremely popular in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s. The trio was an Italian version of American groups such as the Andrews Sisters or Boswell Sisters, and was formed by three Dutch sisters Alexandra , Judith , and...
  
   become Italian citizens.

Albums released

• Songs for John Doe
  Songs for John Doe
  Songs for John Doe was the 1941 debut album and first released product of the Almanac Singers, an influential early folk music group.The album was released in May 1941, at a time when World War II was raging but the United States remained neutral. The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were still at...
  
  – Almanac Singers
  Almanac Singers
  The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who, as their name indicates, specialized in topical songs, especially songs connected with the labor movement...
  
  
• The Maltese Falcon Soundtrack
  The Maltese Falcon Soundtrack
  The music to The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart was written by Adolph Deutsch who later went on the win an Academy Award for his incidental music for Oklahoma! in 1955....
  
  – Adolph Deutsch
  Adolph Deutsch
  Adolph Deutsch was a composer, conductor and arranger. He won Oscars for his background music for Oklahoma! , and for conducting the music for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Annie Get Your Gun...
  
  
• Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger
  Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger
  Released in August 1941, Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger is an album consisting of four 10-inch records by Burl Ives. This record set marked Ives's debut as a recording artist...
  
  – Burl Ives
  Burl Ives
  Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. As an actor, Ives's work included comedies, dramas, and voice work in theater, television, and motion pictures. Music critic John Rockwell said, "Ives's voice .....
  
  

Biggest hit songs

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart Entries
1	Glenn Miller Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...	Chattanooga Choo Choo Chattanooga Choo Choo "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon . It was recorded in a big-band/swing manner by Glenn Miller and his orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, which starred Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle...	1941		US 1940s 1 – Sep 1941, US 1 for 9 weeks Nov 1941, RYM 2 of 1941, US BB 9 of 1941, POP 16 of 1941, Europe 54 of the 1940s
2	Glenn Miller Glenn Miller Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...	A String of Pearls A String of Pearls (song) A String of Pearls is a 1942 #1 song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird, composed by Jerry Gray with lyrics by Eddie DeLange. The song is a Big Band and jazz standard.-Background:...	1941		US 1940s 1 – Jan 1942, US 1 for 2 weeks Feb 1942, US BB 2 of 1941, RYM 13 of 1941, POP 13 of 1941
3	Jimmy Dorsey Jimmy Dorsey James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...	Green Eyes Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes) "Green Eyes" is a popular song, originally written in Spanish under the title "Aquellos Ojos Verdes" by Adolfo Utrera and Nilo Menéndez. The English translation was made by Eddie Rivera and Eddie Woods in 1929....	1941		US 1940s 1 – May 1941, US 1 for 4 weeks Aug 1941, US BB 12 of 1941, POP 12 of 1941, Europe 62 of the 1940s
4	Jimmy Dorsey Jimmy Dorsey James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...	Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) Amapola (song) "Amapola" is a 1924 song by Cádiz-born composer José María Lacalle García , with Spanish lyrics. After the composer died in 1937, English language lyrics were written by Albert Gamse....	1941		US 1940s 1 – Mar 1941, US 1 for 10 weeks Mar 1941, US BB 18 of 1941, POP 21 of 1941, Europe 75 of the 1940s
5	Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...	God Bless the Child God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song) "God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939, first recorded on May 9, 1941 under the Okeh label.Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in...	1941		US BB 3 of 1941, POP 3 of 1941, RYM 5 of 1941, RIAA 58, Scrobulate 89 of jazz, Acclaimed 341, WXPN 814

Top hit records

• "A Weekend In Havana" by Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda
  Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
  
  
• "A String of Pearls
  A String of Pearls (song)
  A String of Pearls is a 1942 #1 song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird, composed by Jerry Gray with lyrics by Eddie DeLange. The song is a Big Band and jazz standard.-Background:...
  
  " by Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "Amapola
  Amapola (song)
  "Amapola" is a 1924 song by Cádiz-born composer José María Lacalle García , with Spanish lyrics. After the composer died in 1937, English language lyrics were written by Albert Gamse....
  
  " by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "Blue Champagne" by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" – Andrews Sisters
• "Chattanooga Choo Choo
  Chattanooga Choo Choo
  "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon . It was recorded in a big-band/swing manner by Glenn Miller and his orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, which starred Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle...
  
  " by Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "Daddy" by Sammy Kaye
  Sammy Kaye
  Sammy Kaye , born Samuel Zarnocay, Jr., was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Dolores" recorded by
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
    
    
  • Tommy Dorsey
    Tommy Dorsey
    Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
    
    
• "Elmer's Tune" by Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "God Bless The Child" by Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  
• "Green Eyes" by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "High On A Windy Hill" by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "The Hut-Sut Song
  The Hut-Sut Song
  The Hut-Sut Song is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights....
  
  " by Mel Tormé
  Mel Tormé
  Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...
  
  
• "I Don't Want to Set the World On Fire" recorded by
  • Horace Heidt
    Horace Heidt
    Horace Heidt was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio and television through the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:Born in Alameda, California, Heidt attended Culver...
    
    
  • The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
    
    
• "I Hear a Rhapsody" recorded by
  • Charlie Barnet
    Charlie Barnet
    Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle".-Early life:...
    
    
  • Jimmy Dorsey
    Jimmy Dorsey
    James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
    
    
• "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" – Andrews Sisters
• "Intermezzo" by Earl Hines
  Earl Hines
  Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, was an American jazz pianist. Hines was one of the most influential figures in the development of modern jazz piano and, according to one source, is "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".-Early...
  
  
• "Lament To Love" by Harry James
  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James was a trumpeter who led a jazz swing band during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.-Biography:He was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a...
  
  
• "Let Me Off Uptown" by Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa
  Gene Krupa was an American jazz and big band drummer and composer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Maria Elena
  Maria Elena
  "María Elena" is a 1932 popular song written by Lorenzo Barcelata . It was published by Peer International Corporation of Mexico...
  
  " by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "Music Makers" by Harry James
  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James was a trumpeter who led a jazz swing band during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.-Biography:He was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a...
  
  
• "My Sister and I" by Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
  
• "Oh! Look at Me Now
  Oh! Look at Me Now
  "Oh! Look at Me Now" is a 1941 song composed by Joe Bushkin, with lyrics by John DeVries. It is strongly associated with Frank Sinatra, who first recorded it with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, in an arrangement by Sy Oliver...
  
  " by Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
  
   and Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  
• "Pan Pan" by Louis Jordan
  Louis Jordan
  Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
  
  
• "Perfidia
  Perfidia
  "Perfidia" is a popular song written by Alberto Domínguez , a Mexican composer and arranger born in the state of Chiapas, about love and betrayal. Aside from the original Spanish, other renditions exist, including English and instrumental versions. The English lyrics are by Milton Leeds...
  
  " by Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat
  Xavier Cugat was a Spanish-American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a successful businessman...
  
  
• "Piano Concerto in B Flat" by Freddy Martin
  Freddy Martin
  Frederick Alfred Martin was an American bandleader and tenor saxophonist.-Early life:Martin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised largely in an orphanage and with various relatives, Martin started out playing drums, then switched to C-melody saxophone and later tenor saxophone, the latter the one...
  
  
• "Racing With The Moon" by Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Saxa-Woogie" by Louis Jordan
  Louis Jordan
  Louis Thomas Jordan was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the...
  
  
• "Song of the Volga Boatmen" by Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "Take the "A" Train" by Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
  
  
• "There I Go" by Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Yes Indeed! by Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
  
  
• "You and I" by Glenn Miller
  Glenn Miller
  Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
  
  
• "You Made Me Love You" by Harry James
  Harry James
  Henry Haag “Harry” James was a trumpeter who led a jazz swing band during the Big Band Era of the 1930s and 1940s. He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone.-Biography:He was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a...
  
  

Published popular music

• "All That Meat And No Potatoes" w.m. Fats Waller
  Fats Waller
  Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
  
   & Ed Kirkeby
  Ed Kirkeby
  Ed Kirkeby band leader, vocalist, manager, and salesman, is best remembered as the manager of Fats Waller. He was one of the first recording managers at Columbia Records to record jazz and organized the California Ramblers to record it. He used several pseudonyms for recording including Ted...
  
  
• "The Anniversary Waltz
  The Anniversary Waltz
  The Anniversary Waltz is a popular song written by Dave Franklin, the lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1941. It has been covered by Vera Lynn and Connie Francis....
  
  " w. Al Dubin
  Al Dubin
  Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...
  
   m. Dave Franklin
• "Apollo Jump" m. Ernest Puree, Prince Robinson & Lucius "Lucky" Millinder
  Lucky Millinder
  Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder was an American rhythm and blues and swing bandleader. Although he could not read or write music, did not play an instrument and rarely sang, his showmanship and musical taste made his bands successful...
  
  
• "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry" w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "Baby Mine
  Baby Mine
  Baby Mine is a 1917 silent film comedy directed by both John S. Robertson and Hugo Ballin and starring Madge Kennedy. The picture marked Kennedy's screen debut and was one of the first films produced by Samuel Goldwyn as an independent after founding his own studio. It is based on a 1910 Broadway...
  
  " w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
  
   m. Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...
  
  
• "Be Honest With Me" w.m. Fred Rose
  Fred Rose (musician)
  Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...
  
   & Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
  
  
• "Blue Champagne" w.m. Jimmy Eaton, Grady Watts & Frank Ryerson
• "Blues In The Night
  Blues in the Night
  "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues...
  
  " w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
  
  
• "Boa Noite" w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune. This song can be considered an early jump blues recording...
  
  " w.m. Don Raye
  Don Raye
  Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
  
   & Hughie Prince
• "Botch-A-Me" w. (Eng) Eddie Stanley (Ital) R. Morbelli & L. Astore m. R. Morbelli & L. Astore
• "Casey Junior" w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
  
   m. Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...
  
   from the animated feature Dumbo
  Dumbo
  Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
  
  
• "Chattanooga Choo Choo
  Chattanooga Choo Choo
  "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a song by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon . It was recorded in a big-band/swing manner by Glenn Miller and his orchestra and featured in the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade, which starred Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle...
  
  " w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "Cherry" w.m. Charles N. Daniels
• "Chica Chica Boom Chic" w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?
  Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?
  "Could You Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?" is a humorous song written and composed by Noel Coward in 1943.Like much of Coward's work it displays skill at wordplay and evokes a feeling of both good humour and patriotic pride...
  
  " w.m. Noël Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  
• "Daddy" w.m. Bobby Troup
  Bobby Troup
  Robert William "Bobby" Troup Jr. was an American actor, jazz pianist and songwriter. He is best known for writing the popular standard " Route 66", and for his role as Dr...
  
  
• "Deep in the Heart of Texas
  Deep in the Heart of Texas
  "Deep in the Heart of Texas" is an American popular song elaborating on the merits of the state of Texas.The 1941 song features lyrics by June Hershey and music by Don Swander. The song was recorded by Perry Como with Ted Weems and His Orchestra on December 9 of that year for Decca Records in Los...
  
  " w. June Hershey m. Don Swander
• "Down Forget-Me-Not Lane" w.m. Horatio Nicholls, Charlie Chester & Reg Morgan
• "Elmer's Tune" w.m. Elmer Albrecht, Sammy Gallop & Dick Jurgens
  Dick Jurgens
  Dick Henry Jurgens was an American swing music bandleader, who enjoyed great popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s....
  
  
• "Everything Happens To Me" w. Tom Adair m. Matt Dennis
• "Five Guys Named Moe" w. Larry Wynn m. Jerry Bresler
• "God Bless The Child" w.m. Arthur Herzog Jr & Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  
• "Goodbye Mama, I'm Off To Yokohama" w.m. J. Fred Coots
  J. Fred Coots
  John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....
  
  
• "He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings" w. Eric Maschwitz m. Michael Carr
  Michael Carr (composer)
  Michael Carr , real name Maurice Alfred Cohen, was a British light music composer born in Leeds. He is best remembered for the song "South of the Border ", written with Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.Among Carr's other compositions were The Shadows instrumental hits "Man of...
  
  
• "Hey Little Hen" w.m. Ralph Butler & Noel Gay
  Noel Gay
  Noel Gay was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows...
  
  
• "How About You?
  How About You?
  "How About You?" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Ralph Freed. It was introduced in the 1941 film Babes on Broadway by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and has also featured in The Fisher King with Robin Williams. The music of the song appears in the film All About Eve...
  
  " w. Ralph Freed m. Burton Lane
  Burton Lane
  Burton Lane was an American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful work is the musical Finian's Rainbow, "the score for which Lane will always be most remembered."-Biography:...
  
  
• "Humpty Dumpty Heart" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
  James Van Heusen
  Jimmy Van Heusen , was an American composer. He wrote songs mainly for films and television , and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.-Life and career:...
  
  
• "The Hut-Sut Song
  The Hut-Sut Song
  The Hut-Sut Song is a novelty song from the 1940s with nonsense lyrics. The song was written in 1941 by Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens. The first and most popular recording was by Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights....
  
  " w.m. Leo V. Killion, Ted McMichael & Jack Owens, The Cruising Crooner
• "I Could Write a Book
  I Could Write a Book
  "I Could Write a Book" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey , where it was introduced by Gene Kelly and Leila Ernst.-Notable recordings:*Betty Carter - The Audience with Betty Carter *Harry Connick, Jr...
  
  " w. Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz Hart
  Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
  
   m. Richard Rodgers
  Richard Rodgers
  Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
  
  . Introduced by Gene Kelly
  Gene Kelly
  Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer...
  
   and Leila Ernst in the musical Pal Joey
  Pal Joey
  Pal Joey is a 1940 epistolary novel by John O'Hara, which became the basis of the 1940 stage musical comedy and 1957 motion picture of the same name, with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart....
  
  . Performed in the 1953 film version by Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  .
• "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" w.m. Eddie Seiler, Sol Marcus, Bennie Benjamin
  Bennie Benjamin
  Claude A. Benjamin was a songwriter, often teaming with George David Weiss. He was born on November 4, 1907 in Christiansted on the island of St. Croix . At the age of twenty, he moved to New York City. There, he studied the banjo and guitar with Hy Smith...
  
   & Eddie Durham
• "I Don't Want To Walk Without You
  I Don't Want to Walk without You
  "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" is a popular song.The music was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Frank Loesser. The song was published in 1941 and became a number one pop hit for Harry James and his orchestra in 1942. Tommy Tucker recorded the song on December 2, 1941.There have been...
  
  " w. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  
• "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
  "I Got It Bad " is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941...
  
  " w. Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster
  Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
  
   m. Duke Ellington
  Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
  
  
• "I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest" w. Mickey Stoner & Martin Block m. Harold Green
• "I Know Why (And So Do You)" w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "I Remember You
  I Remember You (1941 song)
  "I Remember You" is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.The song was one of several introduced in the movie The Fleet's In...
  
  " w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "I Said No!" w. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   m. Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  
• "I See A Million People" w. Robert Sour m. Una Mae Carlisle
  Una Mae Carlisle
  Una Mae Carlisle was an American jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter.Fats Waller discovered Carlisle when she was still in her teens, while she worked as a local Cincinnati performer live and on radio...
  
  
• "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi
  I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
  "I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi " is a 1941 song. It was written for the 1941 film, That Night in Rio, and was popularized by Carmen Miranda...
  
  " w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "I'll Remember April
  I'll Remember April (song)
  "I'll Remember April" is a popular song. The music for the song was written by Gene de Paul, and the lyrics were written by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye....
  
  " w. Don Raye
  Don Raye
  Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
  
   & Patricia Johnston m. Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
  
  
• "It Happened In Sun Valley
  It Happened in Sun Valley
  "It Happened in Sun Valley" is a 1941 song composed by Harry Warren, music, and Mack Gordon, lyrics, which was recorded and featured by Glenn Miller and his Orchestra in the movie Sun Valley Serenade...
  
  " w. Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon
  Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
  
   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,...
  
  
• "It's So Peaceful In The Country" w.m. Alec Wilder
  Alec Wilder
  Alec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• "I Understand
  I Understand (1941 song)
  "I Understand" is a popular song with music by Mabel Wayne and lyrics by Kim Gannon, published in 1941.It has been recorded by Dave Brubeck, Nat "King" Cole, Ray Conniff, Jimmy Dorsey, The Four Aces, and Frank Sinatra....
  
  " w. Kim Gannon
  Kim Gannon
  James Kimball "Kim" Gannon was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of The Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from St...
  
   m. Mabel Wayne
  Mabel Wayne
  Mabel Wayne was an American songwriter. She is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where she is credited as being the first woman composer to publish a hit song....
  
  
• "I've Got Sixpence" w.m. Elton Box & Desmond Cox
• "Jenny
  The Saga of Jenny
  "The Saga of Jenny" is a popular song written for the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark, with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.The music is marked "Allegretto quasi andantino"; Gershwin describes it as "a sort of blues bordello"....
  
  " (aka "The Saga of Jenny") w. 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. Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  . Introduced by Gertrude Lawrence
  Gertrude Lawrence
  Gertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.-Early life:...
  
   in the musical Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine, Allure, who is undergoing psychoanalysis...
  
  . Performed in the 1944 film version by Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers
  Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century....
  
  
• "Jersey Bounce" m. Bobby Plater, Tiny Bradshaw, Edward Johnson & Robert B. Wright
• "Jim
  Jim (song)
  "Jim" is a popular song with music by Caesar Petrillo and Edward Ross, lyrics by Nelson Shawn. The song was published in 1941....
  
  " w. Nelson Shawn m. Caesar Petrillo & Edward Ross
• "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" w. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   m. Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "Knock Me A Kiss" w.m. Mike Jackson
• "Let's All Meet At My House" w. Johnny Burke m. James Van Heusen
  James Van Heusen
  Jimmy Van Heusen , was an American composer. He wrote songs mainly for films and television , and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.-Life and career:...
  
  
• "Let's Get Away from It All
  Let's Get Away from It All
  "Let's Get Away from It All" is a popular song with music by Matt Dennis and lyrics by Tom Adair, published in 1941.The song is best known in a version by Frank Sinatra, but many others have recorded it and it is considered a pop standard....
  
  " w. Tom Adair
  Tom Adair
  Thomas "Tom" Montgomery Adair was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Newton, Kansas, worked at a power company and the Saturday Evening Post, writing numerous poems, while penning the songs in his spare time. In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo...
  
   m. Matt Dennis
  Matt Dennis
  Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music. In 1933 he joined Horace Heidt's...
  
  
• "Let's Not Talk About Love" w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  
• "London Pride
  London Pride (song)
  "London Pride" is a song written and composed by Noël Coward.- Composition :Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz. According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform of a damaged railway station in London, and was "overwhelmed by a wave of sentimental...
  
  " w.m. Noël Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
  
• "Ma! I Miss Your Apple Pie" w.m. Carmen Lombardo
  Carmen Lombardo
  Carmen Lombardo was the younger brother of bandleader Guy Lombardo. He was a vocalist and composer whose compositions included the 1928 classic "Sweethearts on Parade", which was number one for three weeks in 1929 on the U.S...
  
   & John Jacob Loeb
• "Misirlou
  Misirlou
  Misirlou , is a popular Greek song with popularity in five styles of music: Greek rebetiko, Middle-Eastern belly dancing, Jewish klezmer, American surf rock, and international orchestral easy listening .- History :...
  
  " w. (Eng) Milton Leeds, S. K. Russell & Fred Wise m. N. Roubanis
• "Moonlight Cocktail
  Moonlight Cocktail
  "Moonlight Cocktail" is a big band song popular during World War II. It was composed by Luckey Roberts with lyrics by Kim Gannon. The song was originally recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The song had its first public...
  
  " w. Kim Gannon
  Kim Gannon
  James Kimball "Kim" Gannon was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of The Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from St...
  
   m. C. Luckeyth "Lucky" Roberts
  Luckey Roberts
  Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, better known as Luckey Roberts was an American composer and stride pianist who worked in the jazz, ragtime, and blues styles.-Biography:...
  
  
• "My Adobe Hacienda" w.m. Louise Massey & Lee Penny
• "My Ship" w. 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. Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  
• "My Sister and I" w.m. Hy Zaret
  Hy Zaret
  Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
  
  , Joan Whitney & Alex Kramer
  Alex Kramer (songwriter)
  Alex J. Kramer was a Canadian songwriter....
  
  
• "Oh! Look at Me Now
  Oh! Look at Me Now
  "Oh! Look at Me Now" is a 1941 song composed by Joe Bushkin, with lyrics by John DeVries. It is strongly associated with Frank Sinatra, who first recorded it with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, in an arrangement by Sy Oliver...
  
  " w. John De Vries m. Joe Bushkin
• "Please Take A Letter Miss Brown" Paul Cunningham, Ernie Burnett
• "Racing With The Moon" w. Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Monroe
  Vaughn Wilton Monroe was an American baritone singer, trumpeter and big band leader and actor, most popular in the 1940s and 1950s. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for recording and radio.-Biography:...
  
   & Pauline Pope m. Johnny Watson
• "Rancho Pillow" Charles Newman & Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...
  
  
• "Remember Pearl Harbor" w.m. Don Reid & Sammy Kaye
  Sammy Kaye
  Sammy Kaye , born Samuel Zarnocay, Jr., was an American bandleader and songwriter, whose tag line, "Swing and sway with Sammy Kaye", became one of the most famous of the Big Band Era.-Biography:...
  
  
• "Road To Zanzibar" w. Johnny Burke m. Jimmy Van Heusen from the film Road To Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio....
  
  
• "Rose O'Day" w.m. Charles Tobias
  Charles Tobias
  -Biography:Born in New York City, Tobias grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts with brothers Harry Tobias and Henry Tobias, also songwriters.He started his musical career in vaudeville. In 1923, he founded his own music publishing firm and worked on Tin Pan Alley...
  
   & Al Lewis
  Al Lewis (lyricist)
  Al Lewis is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well. Professionally he was most active during the 1920s working into the 1950s. During this time, he most often collaborated with popular songwriters Al Sherman and Abner Silver...
  
  
• "Sand In My Shoes" w. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   m. Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "The Shrine Of Saint Cecilia" w. Carroll Loveday m. Nils Perne (Jokern)
• "A Sinner Kissed An Angel" w. Mack David
  Mack David
  Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...
  
   m. Larry Shayne
• "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat" w.m. Leon René, Otis René & Emerson Scott
• "So Near and Yet So Far
  So Near and Yet So Far
  "So Near and Yet So Far" is a song written by Cole Porter, for the 1941 film You'll Never Get Rich, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire....
  
  " w.m. Cole Porter
  Cole Porter
  Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
  
  . Introduced by Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
   in the film You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich is a 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The film was directed by Sidney Lanfield...
  
  .
• "Starlight Serenade" w.m. Sonny Miller, Frederick Tysh & Hans May
• "The Story Of A Starry Night" w.m. Jerry Livingston
  Jerry Livingston
  Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter, and dance orchestra pianist.-Biography:...
  
  , Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman
  Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...
  
   & Mann Curtis
• "A String Of Pearls
  A String of Pearls (song)
  A String of Pearls is a 1942 #1 song recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra on RCA Bluebird, composed by Jerry Gray with lyrics by Eddie DeLange. The song is a Big Band and jazz standard.-Background:...
  
  " w. Eddie De Lange m. Jerry Gray
  Jerry Gray (Arranger)
  Jerry Gray was an American violinist, arranger, composer, and leader of swing dance orchestras bearing his name. He is widely known for his work with popular music during the Swing era. His name is inextricably linked to two of the most famous bandleaders of the time, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller...
  
  
• "Sun Valley Jump" m. Jerry Gray
  Jerry Gray (Arranger)
  Jerry Gray was an American violinist, arranger, composer, and leader of swing dance orchestras bearing his name. He is widely known for his work with popular music during the Swing era. His name is inextricably linked to two of the most famous bandleaders of the time, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller...
  
   from the film Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 musical film starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Academy...
  
  
• "Take The "A" Train" w.m. Billy Strayhorn
  Billy Strayhorn
  William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...
  
  
• "Tangerine
  Tangerine (1941 song)
  "Tangerine" is a popular song.The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941.It was introduced in the 1942 movie, The Fleet's In, produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Schertzinger, and starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie...
  
  " w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "Tenement Symphony" w. Sid Kuller & Ray Golden m. Hal Borne
• "That Lovely Weekend" w.m. Ted Heath
  Ted Heath (bandleader)
  Ted Heath, musician and big band leader, led Britain's greatest post-war big band recording more than 100 albums and selling over 20 million records...
  
   & Moira Heath
• "There Goes That Song Again" Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...
  
  
• "There, I've Said It Again" w.m. Redd Evans
  Redd Evans
  Redd Evans was a music lyricist whose songs have been recorded by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Doris Day amongst many others....
  
   & Dave Mann
• "This Is New" w. 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. Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  
• "This Time the Dream's on Me
  This Time the Dream's on Me
  "This Time the Dream's on Me" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was written for the 1941 film Blues in the Night.-Notable recordings:*Chet Baker *June Christy - Something Cool *Harry Connick Jr....
  
  " w. Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   m. Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
  
  . Introduced by Priscilla Lane in the film Blues in the Night
  Blues in the Night
  "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues...
  
  .
• "(Lights Out) 'Til Reveille" w. Stanley Cowan m. Stanley Cowan & Bobby Worth
• "Tonight We Love" w. Bobby Worth m. Freddy Martin
  Freddy Martin
  Frederick Alfred Martin was an American bandleader and tenor saxophonist.-Early life:Martin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Raised largely in an orphanage and with various relatives, Martin started out playing drums, then switched to C-melody saxophone and later tenor saxophone, the latter the one...
  
   & Ray Austin
• "Tschaikovsky ( And Other Russians)" w. 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. Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  . Introduced by Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
   in the musical Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine, Allure, who is undergoing psychoanalysis...
  
  
• "Two In Love" w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man...
  
  
• "Violets For Your Furs" w. Tom Adair m. Matt Dennis
• "The Waiter And The Porter And The Upstairs Maid" w.m Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
  
• "Walking The Floor Over You" w.m. Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
  
  
• "We're The Couple In The Castle" w. Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   m. Hoagy Carmichael
  Hoagy Carmichael
  Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...
  
  
• "When I See an Elephant Fly" w. Ned Washington
  Ned Washington
  Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...
  
   m. Oliver Wallace
• "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" w.m. Wiley Walker & Gene Sullivan
• "When They Sound The Last All Clear" w.m. Hugh Charles, Louis Elton
• "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
  (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover
  " The White Cliffs of Dover" is a popular World War II song made famous by Vera Lynn with her 1942 recording—one of her best known recordings. Written in 1941 by Walter Kent and Nat Burton, the song was also among the most popular Second World War tunes...
  
  " w. Nat Burton m. Walter Kent
• "Why Don't We Do This More Often?
  Why Don't We Do This More Often?
  "Why Don't We Do This More Often?" is a popular song with music was written by Allie Wrubel and lyrics by Charles Newman, published in 1941. The song is considered a standard, having been recorded by many artists. In the Warner Brothers cartoon "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid", Bugs Bunny and Beaky...
  
  " w. Charles Newman m. Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel
  Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...
  
  
• "Winter Weather" w.m. Ted Shapiro
  Ted Shapiro
  Ted Shapiro was a United States popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher.Shapiro was born in New York City. He became a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and accompanied notable star vaudeville singers of the day, including Nora Bayes and Eva Tanguay. In 1921 he was hired as accompanist...
  
  
• "You And I" w.m. Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man...
  
  
• "You Don't Know What Love Is
  You Don't Know What Love Is
  "You Don't Know What Love Is," a popular song of the Great American Songbook, has one the craziest histories of any song. It was written by Don Raye and Gene de Paul for the Abbott and Costello 1941 Universal picture Keep 'Em Flying, in which it was sung by Carol Bruce...
  
  " w. Don Raye
  Don Raye
  Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...
  
   m. Gene De Paul
  Gene de Paul
  Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....
  
  

Classical music

• Joseph Achron
  Joseph Achron
  Joseph Yulyevich Achron, also seen as Akhron was a Russian composer and violinist of Jewish origin, settled in USA. His preoccupation with Jewish elements and his desire to develop a 'Jewish' harmonic and contrapuntal idiom, underscored and informed much of his work...
  
   – Concerto for Piano Solo
• Richard Addinsell
  Richard Addinsell
  Richard Stewart Addinsell was a British composer, best known for film music, primarily his Warsaw Concerto, composed for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight .-Life:...
  
   – Warsaw Concerto
  Warsaw Concerto
  The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film Dangerous Moonlight . It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell...
  
  
• Hanns Eisler
  Hanns Eisler
  Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...
  
   – Fourteen Ways of Describing the Rain
• Roberto Gerhard
  Roberto Gerhard
  Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder was a Catalan Spanish composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Robert Gerhard.-Life:...
  
   – Sinfonía homenaje a Pedrell
• Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Glière
  Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...
  
   – Pochodnyj marš (Field march) for wind orchestra, op. 76
• Vítězslav Novák
  Vítezslav Novák
  Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
  
   – De Profundis
• Harry Partch
  Harry Partch
  Harry Partch was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.-Early...
  
   – Barstow
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
   – String Quartet No. 2 in F, Op. 92
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
   – Symphony No. 7 C major, Op. 60 "Leningrad"
  Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich)
  Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 dedicated to the city of Leningrad was completed on 27 December 1941. In its time, the symphony was extremely popular in both Russia and the West as a symbol of resistance and defiance to Nazi totalitarianism and militarism...
  
  

Musical theater 

• Apple Sauce London 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 Palladium
  London Palladium
  The London Palladium is a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster. From the roster of stars who have played there and many televised performances, it is arguably the most famous theatre in London and the United Kingdom, especially for musical variety...
  
   on March 5
• Banjo Eyes
  Banjo Eyes
  Banjo Eyes is a musical based on the play Three Men on a Horse by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. It has a book by Joseph Quinlan and Izzy Ellinson, music by Vernon Duke, and lyrics by John La Touche and Harold Adamson....
  
  Broadway production opened on December 25 at the Hollywood Theatre
  Mark Hellinger Theatre
  The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a generally used name of a former legitimate Broadway theater, located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. Since 1991, it has been known as the Times Square Church...
  
   and ran for 126 performances.
• Best Foot Forward
  Best Foot Forward (musical)
  Best Foot Forward is a 1941 Broadway musical by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, with book by John Cecil Holm. Produced by George Abbott, the production opened on 1 October 1941 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre where it was staged for 326 performances....
  
  Broadway production opened on October 1 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  Ethel Barrymore Theatre
  The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 243 West 47th Street in midtown-Manhattan, named for actress Ethel Barrymore....
  
   and ran for 326 performances.
• Get a Load of This 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 on November 19 at the Hippodrome Theatre
  Hippodrome, London
  The Hippodrome is a building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square in the City of Westminster, London. The name was used for many different theatres and music halls, of which the London Hippodrome is one of only a few survivors...
  
   and ran for 698 performances.
• High Kickers Broadway production opened on October 31 at the Broadhurst Theatre
  Broadhurst Theatre
  The Broadhurst Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 235 West 44th Street in midtown Manhattan.It was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, a well-known theatre designer who had been working directly with the Shubert brothers; the Broadhurst opened 27 September 1917...
  
   and ran for 171 performances.
• It Happens on Ice 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 on July 15 at the Center Theatre and ran for 386 performances.
• Lady Behave London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre
  His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating more than 1400. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the city's Union Terrace Gardens. It was designed by Frank Matcham and opened in 1906...
  
   on July 24 and ran for 401 performances
• Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark
  Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine, Allure, who is undergoing psychoanalysis...
  
  Broadway production opened on January 23 at the Alvin Theatre and ran for 467 performances.
• Let's Face It!
  Let's Face It!
  Let's Face It! is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields is based on the 1925 play The Cradle Snatchers by Russell Medcraft and Norma Mitchell....
  
  Broadway production opened on October 29 at the Imperial Theatre and ran for 547 performances.
• Sons O' Fun Broadway Revue opened on December 1 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....
  
   and ran for 742 performances.

Musical films

• Babes on Broadway
  Babes on Broadway
  Babes on Broadway is a 1941 musical film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and directed by Busby Berkeley, with Vincente Minnelli directing Garland's big solo numbers. The film, which features Fay Bainter and Virginia Weidler, was the third in the "Backyard Musical" series about kids who put...
  
  
• Birth of the Blues
• Blues in the Night
  Blues in the Night (1941 film)
  Blues in the Night is a 1941 American musical drama film released by Warner Brothers, directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Priscilla Lane, Richard Whorf, Betty Field, Lloyd Nolan, Elia Kazan, and Jack Carson...
  
  
• The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier (film)
  -Cast:* Nelson Eddy as Karl Lang, aka Vassily Vassilievitch* Risë Stevens as Maria Lanyi, Karl's Wife* Nigel Bruce as Bernard Fischer, Critic* Florence Bates as Madame 'Pugsie' Helene* Dorothy Raye as Magda...
  
  
• Dumbo
  Dumbo
  Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
  
  
• He Found a Star
  He Found a Star
  He Found a Star is a 1941 British musical film directed by John Paddy Carstairs and starring Vic Oliver, Sarah Churchill and Evelyn Dall. A frustrated stage manager quits his job and sets up a theatrical agency with the help of his secretary.-Cast:...
  
  starring Vic Oliver
  Vic Oliver
  Vic Oliver was an actor and radio comedian.He was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of Viktor von Samek and came to England via America....
  
  , Sarah Churchill
  Sarah Churchill (actress)
  Sarah Millicent Hermione Tuchet-Jesson, Baroness Audley, usually known as Sarah Churchill , was a British actress and dancer.- Early life :...
  
   and Evelyn Dall
  Evelyn Dall
  Evelyn Dall was an American singer and actress.-Career:Born in The Bronx, New York City Dall began her career in short films and in supporting roles on Broadway. In 1935, she was invited to become the female vocalist for Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra, in the UK, where she remained until 1946...
  
  
• Hold That Ghost
  Hold That Ghost
  Hold That Ghost is a 1941 comedy horror film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers, and Shemp Howard....
  
  starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...
  
   and Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...
  
   and featuring The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...
  
   and Ted Lewis
  Ted Lewis (musician)
  Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...
  
   and his Band
• In the Navy
  In The Navy (film)
  -Plot:Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts , a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world.Aboard the battleship...
  
  starring Bud Abbott
  Bud Abbott
  William Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...
  
  , Lou Costello
  Lou Costello
  Louis Francis "Lou" Costello was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott...
  
  , Dick Powell
  Dick Powell
  Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, director and studio boss.Despite the same last name he was not related to William Powell, Eleanor Powell or Jane Powell.-Biography:...
  
   and The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...
  
  
• Kiss the Boys Goodbye starring Don Ameche
  Don Ameche
  Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor with a career spanning almost sixty years.-Personal life:...
  
   and Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
  
• Lady Be Good
  Lady Be Good (1941 film)
  Lady Be Good is the title of an MGM musical film which was released in 1941.The film starred dancer Eleanor Powell along with Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore, and Red Skelton. It was directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Arthur Freed...
  
  
• Moon Over Miami
  Moon Over Miami (film)
  Moon Over Miami is a 1941 Technicolor musical film directed by Walter Lang, with Betty Grable and Don Ameche in leading roles and co-starring Robert Cummings, Carole Landis, Jack Haley, and Charlotte Greenwood. It was one of Haley's last appearances in a major, large-budgeted film; after 1943 he...
  
  
• Navy Blues starring Ann Sheridan
  Ann Sheridan
  -Life and career:Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas on February 21, 1915, she was a student at the University of North Texas when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit part in a...
  
  , Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
  
  , Martha Raye
  Martha Raye
  Martha Raye was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television....
  
   and Jack Haley
  Jack Haley
  John Joseph "Jack" Haley was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and Kansas farmworker Hickory in The Wizard of Oz.-Career:...
  
  
• Playmates
  Playmates (1941 film)
  Playmates is a comedy film directed by David Butler, and starring Kay Kyser and John Barrymore. This was Barrymore's final film.-Cast:*Kay Kyser as Kay Kyser*John Barrymore as John Barrymore*Lupe Vélez as Carmen Del Toro...
  
  
• Rise and Shine starring Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie
  Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
  
  , Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell
  Linda Darnell was an American film actress.Darnell was a model as a child, and progressed to theater and film acting as an adolescent. At the encouragement of her mother, she made her first film in 1939, and appeared in supporting roles in big budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s...
  
  , George Murphy
  George Murphy
  George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician.-Life and career:He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and Nora Long. He was educated at Peddie School, Trinity-Pawling School, and...
  
   and Milton Berle
  Milton Berle
  Milton Berlinger , better known as Milton Berle, was an American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , in 1948 he was the first major star of U.S. television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr...
  
  
• Road to Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar
  Road to Zanzibar is a 1941 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour, and marked the second picture in the popular "Road to …" series made by the trio....
  
  
• San Antonio Rose
  San Antonio Rose (film)
  San Antonio Rose is a 1941 American black-and-white musical film starring Jane Frazee and featuring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Shemp Howard as a one-shot comedy team .-Cast:*Jane Frazee - Hope Holloway*Robert Paige - Con Conway...
  
  starring Robert Paige
  Robert Paige
  Robert Paige was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin...
  
  , Jane Frazee
  Jane Frazee
  Mary Jane Frehse , known as Jane Frazee, was an American actress, singer, and dancer.-Professional life:...
  
  , Eve Arden
  Eve Arden
  Eve Arden was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in...
  
   and The Merry Macs
  The Merry Macs
  The Merry Macs were an American close-harmony pop music quartet active from the 1920s till the 1960s and best known for the hits “Mairzy Doats,” “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” and "Sentimental Journey." They also sang on recordings with Bing Crosby....
  
  
• Sis Hopkins starring Judy Canova
  Judy Canova
  Judy Canova , born Juliette Canova, was an American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films...
  
  , Bob Crosby
  Bob Crosby
  George Robert "Bob" Crosby was an American dixieland bandleader and vocalist, best known for his group the Bob-Cats.-Family:...
  
  , Jerry Colonna and Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward
  Susan Hayward was an American actress.After working as a fashion model in New York, Hayward travelled to Hollywood in 1937 when open auditions were held for the leading role in Gone with the Wind . Although she was not selected, she secured a film contract, and played several small supporting...
  
  
• Smilin' Through
  Smilin' Through (1941 film)
  Smilin' Through is a 1941 MGM musical film based on the 1919 play of the same name by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin.The film was a remake of a previous 1932 version by MGM and was the third and final film version of the play. It starred Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne and Ian Hunter...
  
  
• Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade
  Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 musical film starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, and Lynn Bari. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Academy...
  
  
• Sunny
  Sunny (1941 film)
  Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny...
  
  
• Sweetheart of the Campus
  Sweetheart of the Campus
  Sweetheart of the Campus is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Edward Dmytryk.-Cast:* Ruby Keeler as Betty Blake* Ozzie Nelson as Ozzie Norton* Harriet Hilliard as Harriet Hale...
  
  
• That Night in Rio
  That Night in Rio
  That Night in Rio is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche . It is one of several film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler...
  
  
• They Met in Argentina
• Time Out for Rhythm
  Time Out for Rhythm
  Time Out for Rhythm is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Rudy Vallée, Ann Miller and The Three Stooges. Alan Hale, Jr., best known for his role as Skipper Jonas Grumby on Gilligan's Island, also makes a brief appearance early on, marking one of his first film appearances.To date, there has been...
  
  
• Too Many Blondes starring Rudy Vallee
  Rudy Vallée
  Rudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
  
   and Helen Parrish
  Helen Parrish
  Helen Parrish was an American movie actress, the daughter of stage and bit film actress Laura Parrish.-Career:...
  
  
• Week-End in Havana
  Week-End in Havana
  Week-End in Havana is a 1941 Fox musical film directed by Walter Lang. The movie stars Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda. It was the second of three pictures the two stars made together and the second Faye film to have a Latin-American theme, typical for Fox musicals of the early 1940s...
  
  
• You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich
  You'll Never Get Rich is a 1941 Hollywood musical comedy film with a wartime theme starring Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The film was directed by Sidney Lanfield...
  
  starring Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
  , Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars...
  
   and Robert Benchley
  Robert Benchley
  Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor...
  
  . Directed by Sidney Lanfield
  Sidney Lanfield
  Sidney Lanfield was a film director known for directing comedy films and later television programs.The one-time musician's first directing job was for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox...
  
  .
• You're the One starring Bonnie Baker
  Bonnie Baker (singer)
  Bonnie Baker was an American jazz and popular music singer, often credited as Wee Bonnie Baker. Her biggest hit was "Oh Johnny, Oh!" which she recorded with the Orrin Tucker Orchestra in 1939....
  
  , Orrin Tucker
  Orrin Tucker
  Robert Orrin Tucker was an American bandleader born in St. Louis, Missouri, whose theme song was "Drifting and Dreaming". His biggest hit was "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" , sung by vocalist "Wee" Bonnie Baker....
  
   & his Orchestra, Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...
  
   and Jerry Colonna
• Ziegfeld Girl
  Ziegfeld Girl (film)
  Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 American film starring James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner, and co-starring Tony Martin, Jackie Cooper, Eve Arden, and Philip Dorn. Released by MGM, it was directed by Robert Z...
  
  
• Zis Boom Bah
  Zis Boom Bah
  Zis Boom Bah is a 1941 American film directed by William Nigh.The film is also known as College Sweethearts.- Cast :*Grace Hayes as Grace Hayes*Peter Lind Hayes as Peter Kendricks*Mary Healy as Mary Healy*Huntz Hall as Skeets Skillhorn...
  
  starring Grace Hayes, Peter Lind Hayes
  Peter Lind Hayes
  Peter Lind Hayes was an American vaudeville entertainer, songwriter, and film and television actor. He was born Joseph Conrad Lind in San Francisco, California....
  
  , Mary Healy
  Mary Healy
  Mary Healy is a retired American actress, singer, and variety entertainer born in New Orleans, Louisiana. The former Miss New Orleans beauty pageant winner, whose first major screen role was in Second Fiddle , was married to fellow entertainer Peter Lind Hayes from 1940 until his death in 1998...
  
  , Skeets Gallagher
  Richard "Skeets" Gallagher
  Richard "Skeets" Gallagher was an American actor.He was educated at Rose Polytechnic Institute and Indiana University. He first studied civil engineering and then to become a lawyer but ended up on the stage...
  
   and Benny Rubin
  Benny Rubin
  Benny Rubin was an American comedian and film actor. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Rubin made more than 200 radio, film and television appearances over a span of 50 years.-Radio and television:...
  
  , and directed by William Nigh
  William Nigh
  William Nigh was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".He was born in Berlin, Wisconsin....
  
  

Births

• January 3 – Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks
  Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
  
  , singer, arranger and composer
• January 9 – Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
  , folk singer
• January 12 – Long John Baldry
  Long John Baldry
  John William "Long John" Baldry was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No...
  
  , R&B singer (died 2005)
• January 15 – Captain Beefheart
  Captain Beefheart
  Don Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...
  
  , musician and artist
• January 18 – David Ruffin
  David Ruffin
  Davis Eli "David" Ruffin was an American soul singer and musician most famous for his work as one of the lead singers of the Temptations from 1964 to 1968...
  
   (The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  ) (died 1991)
• January 20 – Ron Townson
  Ron Townson
  Ronald "Ron" Townson was an American vocalist. He was an original member of The 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late '60s and early '70s....
  
  , The 5th Dimension
• January 21 – Richie Havens
  Richie Havens
  Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...
  
  , folk singer
• January 24
  • Aaron Neville
    Aaron Neville
    Aaron Neville is an American soul and R&B singer and musician. He has had four top-20 hits in the United States along with four platinum-certified albums...
    
    , The Neville Brothers
    The Neville Brothers
    The Neville Brothers, an American R&B and soul group, was formed in 1977 in New Orleans, Louisiana.-History:The group notion started in 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art , Charles , Aaron , and Cyril The Neville Brothers, an American R&B and soul group, was formed in 1977 in...
    
    
  • Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond
    Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
    
    , singer-songwriter
• February 4 – John Steel
  John Steel (drummer)
  For other persons named John Steele, see John Steele .John Steel was the original drummer of the band, The Animals, and is the owner of the rights to the band's name, by virtue of a trademark registration.Steel went to the Gateshead Grammar School...
  
  , The Animals
  The Animals
  The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade, and later relocated to London...
  
  
• February 5 – Barrett Strong
  Barrett Strong
  Barrett Strong is an American singer and songwriter. Strong was the first artist to record a hit for Motown, although he is best remembered for his work as a songwriter, particularly in association with producer Norman Whitfield.-His career:Strong was among the first artists signed to Berry...
  
  , singer and songwriter
• February 6 – Dave Berry
  Dave Berry (musician)
  Not to be confused with English 1960s singer Mike Berry.Dave Berry is a British pop singer and former teen idol of the 1960s...
  
  , singer
• February 11
  • Earl Lewis (The Channels
    The Channels
    The Channels were an American doo wop group from New York City.The Channels formed in 1955 around the singers Larry Hampden, Billy Morris, and Edward Doulphin; they started as a quintet with two additional part-time members, but soon after they permanently added Earl Michael Lewis and Clifton...
    
    )
  • Sergio Mendes
    Sergio Mendes
    Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
    
    , Latin American musician
  • Tom Rush
    Tom Rush
    Tom Rush is an American folk and blues singer, songwriter, musician and recording artist.- Life and career :Rush was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father was a teacher at St. Paul's School, in Concord, New Hampshire. Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University after...
    
    , folk & blues singer
• February 15 – Brian Holland
  Brian Holland
  Brian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...
  
  , songwriter
• February 17 – Gene Pitney
  Gene Pitney
  Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...
  
  , singer and songwriter (died 2006)
• February 18
  • Herman Santiago
    Herman Santiago
    Herman Santiago is a rock and roll pioneer and songwriter who claimed to have written the iconic hit "Why Do Fools Fall In Love".-Early years:Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York...
    
     (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
    The Teenagers
    The Teenagers are an American integrated doo wop group, most noted for being one of rock music's earliest successes, presented to international audiences by DJ Alan Freed...
    
    )
  • Irma Thomas
    Irma Thomas
    Irma Thomas is an American Grammy Award-winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans"....
    
    , soul singer
• February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...
  
  , singer and composer
• February 24 – Joanie Sommers
  Joanie Sommers
  Joanie Sommers , is an American singer and actress with a long career of jazz, standards and popular material and extensive show-business credits...
  
  , singer and actress
• March 6 – Palle Mikkelborg
  Palle Mikkelborg
  Palle Mikkelborg , is a Danish jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger and record producer. He started playing professionally in 1960, and has since been a dominant figure on the Danish and international progressive jazz scene...
  
  , jazz trumpeter and composer
• March 8 – Ivana Loudová
  Ivana Loudová
  Ivana Loudová is a Czech composer.Loudová was born at Chlumec nad Cidlinou. She studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts under Miloslav Kabeláč and Emil Hlobil...
  
  , composer
• March 12 – Paul Kantner
  Paul Kantner
  Paul Lorin Kantner is an American rock musician, known for co-founding the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off band Jefferson Starship.- Overview :...
  
   (Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane
  Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
  
  ), (KBC Band
  KBC Band
  The KBC Band was formed in 1985 by former Jefferson Airplane members Paul Kantner , Marty Balin and Jack Casady . Other members included Keith Crossan , Tim Gorman , Mark "Slick" Aguilar and Darrell Verdusco...
  
  )
• March 15 – Mike Love
  Mike Love
  Michael Edward "Mike" Love is an American singer/songwriter and musician with The Beach Boys. He was a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to perform with the band to the present day...
  
   (The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  )
• March 17 – Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Clemons
  Clarence Anicholas Clemons, Jr. , also known as The Big Man, was an American musician and actor. From 1972 until his death, he was a prominent member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, playing the tenor saxophone. He released several solo albums and in 1985, had a hit single with "You're a...
  
   (E Street Band
  E Street Band
  The E Street Band has been rock musician Bruce Springsteen's primary backing band since 1972.The band has also recorded with a wide range of other artists including Bob Dylan, Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Air Supply, Dire Straits, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Nicks, Tom Morello, Sting, Ian...
  
  )
• March 18 – Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett
  Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
  
  , soul singer (died 2006)
• March 28 – Alf Clausen
  Alf Clausen
  Alf Clausen is an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, of which he has been the sole composer since 1990...
  
  , orchestra conductor (The Simpsons
  The Simpsons
  The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
  
  )
• April 3 – Jan Berry (Jan and Dean
  Jan and Dean
  Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence...
  
  )
• April 5 – David LaFlamme
  David LaFlamme
  David LaFlamme is a virtuoso violinist in both classical and rock music.David's mother was from a Mormon family in Salt Lake City, and when he was eight years old, the family moved there to be near her family...
  
   (It's a Beautiful Day
  It's a Beautiful Day
  It's a Beautiful Day is a band formed in San Francisco, California in 1967, the brainchild of violinist David LaFlamme.LaFlamme, a former soloist with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, had previously been in the band Orkustra, and unusually, played a five-string violin...
  
  )
• April 8 – J.J. Jackson, VJ
• April 9 - Kay Adams, country singer
• April 19 – Roberto Carlos
  Roberto Carlos (singer)
  Roberto Carlos Braga is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer and composer, who has achieved a great deal of success and recognition in his 50 year career, also known as King of Latin Music....
  
  , singer
• April 28
  • Peter Anders, The Tradewinds
  • Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy...
    
    , actress and singer
• April 30 – Johnny Farina (Santo & Johnny
  Santo & Johnny
  Santo & Johnny were an Italian-American rock and roll duo from Brooklyn, New York, comprising brothers Santo and Johnny Farina.They are best known for their instrumental "Sleep Walk", which became a regional hit and eventually reached the top of the Billboard pop chart when it was released...
  
  )
• May 4 – Richard Burns
  Richard Burns
  Richard Alexander Burns was an English rally driver. He was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the 2001 World Rally Champion, having previously finished runner-up in the series in 1999 and 2000. He also helped Mitsubishi to the world manufacturers' title in 1998, and Peugeot in 2002...
  
   (The Hondells
  The Hondells
  The Hondells were an American surf rock band who hit the Top 10 with the 1964 single "Little Honda"."Little Honda", written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love of The Beach Boys, was inspired by the popularity of Honda motor bikes in Southern California during the early 1960s. The band recorded the song...
  
  )
• May 8 – John Fred
  John Fred
  John Fred was a blue-eyed soul, Cajun swamp pop and bubble-gum pop performer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, best known for the song, "Judy in Disguise ".-Career:...
  
  , vocalist (John Fred & His Playboy Band) (died 2005)
• May 9
  • Peter Birrell (Freddie & The Dreamers)
  • Danny Rapp
    Danny Rapp
    Daniel Joseph "Danny" Rapp was an American musician and the frontman for the group Danny & the Juniors. The group is best known for their 1957 hit "At the Hop".He was born in Philadelphia, Pa , the youngest of seven siblings...
    
     (Danny and the Juniors)
• May 11 – Eric Burdon
  Eric Burdon
  Eric Victor Burdon is an English singer-songwriter best known as a founding member and vocalist of rock band The Animals, and the funk rock band War and for his aggressive stage performance...
  
  , R&B singer (The Animals
  The Animals
  The Animals were an English music group of the 1960s formed in Newcastle upon Tyne during the early part of the decade, and later relocated to London...
  
  )
• May 13
  • Ritchie Valens
    Ritchie Valens
    Ritchie Valens was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist....
    
    , singer (died 1959)
  • Joe Brown
    Joe Brown (singer)
    Joe Brown, MBE is an English entertainer.He has worked as a rock and roll singer and guitarist for more than five decades. He was a stage and television performer in the late 1950s and a UK recording star in the early 1960s...
    
    , singer and guitarist
• May 21 – Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley
  Ronald Isley is an American singer and is known as the lead singer and founding member of the family music group The Isley Brothers.-Career:...
  
   (The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers
  The Isley Brothers are a highly influential, successful and long-running American music group consisting of different line-ups of six brothers, and a brother-in-law, Chris Jasper...
  
  )
• May 24 – Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan
  Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
  
  , folk singer and songwriter; Konrad Boehmer, composer
• June 1 – Edo de Waart
  Edo de Waart
  Edo de Waart is a Dutch conductor, and the Music Director of both the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra....
  
  , conductor
• June 2
  • William Guest (Gladys Knight & the Pips
    Gladys Knight & the Pips
    Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles on Motown's "Soul" record label and Buddah Records from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight...
    
    )
  • Charlie Watts
    Charlie Watts
    Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder.-Early life:...
    
    , drummer (The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...
    
    )
• June 5 – Martha Argerich
  Martha Argerich
  Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...
  
  , pianist
• June 9 – Jon Lord
  Jon Lord
  Jonathan Douglas "Jon" Lord is an English composer, pianist and Hammond organ player.Jon Lord, also known as 'Hammond Lord', is a classically trained piano player. He is recognised for his Hammond organ blues-rock sound and for his pioneering work in fusing rock and classical or baroque forms...
  
  , keyboard player and composer
• June 10 – Shirley Owens
  Shirley Owens
  Shirley Alston Reeves was the lead member of the hit singing group, The Shirelles. As well as Owens, the Shirelles consisted of classmates of hers from Passaic High School, New Jersey: Addie "Micki" Harris, Doris Kenner Jackson, and Beverly Lee. Through marriages, she became Shirley Alston and...
  
   (The Shirelles
  The Shirelles
  The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...
  
  )
• June 12
  • Chick Corea
    Chick Corea
    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
    
    , jazz musician
  • Roy Harper
    Roy Harper
    Roy Harper is an English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since the mid 1960s...
    
    , singer-songwriter
  • Reg Presley
    Reg Presley
    Reg Presley is an English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer with prominent 1960s rock and roll band The Troggs, whose best known hit was "Wild Thing", though their only UK number one single was "With A Girl Like You"...
    
    , singer and songwriter (The Troggs
    The Troggs
    The Troggs are an English rock band from the 1960s that had a number of hits in UK and the US. Their most famous songs include, "Wild Thing", "With a Girl Like You", and "Love Is All Around"...
    
    )
• June 13 – Esther Ofarim, singer
• June 15 – Harry Nilsson
  Harry Nilsson
  Harry Edward Nilsson III was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. On all but his earliest recordings he is credited as Nilsson...
  
  , singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
• June 16 – Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Dozier
  Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...
  
  , songwriter
• July 5 – Terry Cashman
  Terry Cashman
  Terry Cashman is a record producer and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1981 hit, "Talkin' Baseball." While the song is well recognized today, it was all but ignored by typical Top 40 radio during its chart life, making only the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.Cashman was the lead singer...
  
  , record producer and singer-songwriter
• July 7 – Jim Rodford
  Jim Rodford
  Jim Rodford is a musician who played with The Kinks, The Swinging Blue Jeans and was a founding member of Argent...
  
   (Argent
  Argent (band)
  Argent are an English rock band founded in 1969 by keyboardist Rod Argent, formerly of The Zombies.-Career:The first three demos from Argent, recorded in the autumn of 1968 featured Mac MacLeod on bass guitar though he was not meant to become a member of the group.Original members of the band were...
  
  )
• July 9 – Donald McPherson (Main Ingredient)
• July 16 – Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker
  Desmond Dekker was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces , he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with "Israelites". Other hits include "007 " and "It Miek"...
  
  , reggae musician (died 2006)
• July 17
  • Spencer Davis
    Spencer Davis
    Spencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
    
    , instrumentalist (The Spencer Davis Group)
  • Gribouille
    Gribouille
    Marie-France Gaîté , better known as Gribouille, was a singer.As a teenager, she suffered from mental disorder and for a time was confined against her will to a psychiatric hospital in Lyon. With medication, she was able to function well enough to leave her hometown and moved on to Paris...
    
    , singer (died 1968)
• July 18
  • Martha Reeves
    Martha Reeves
    Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B and Pop singer and former politician, and was the lead singer of the Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. During her tenure with The Vandellas, they scored over a dozen hit singles, including "Jimmy Mack", "Dancing in the Street" and "Nowhere to Run"...
    
    , vocalist
  • Lonnie Mack
    Lonnie Mack
    Lonnie Mack is an American rock, blues and country guitarist and vocalist....
    
    , rock and blues guitarist
• July 19 – Vicki Carr, singer
• July 22 – George Clinton
  George Clinton (musician)
  George Clinton is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer and the principal architect of P-Funk. He was the mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic during the 1970s and early 1980s, and launched a solo career in 1981. He has been cited as one of the foremost...
  
  , American musician
• July 25 – Manny Charlton
  Manny Charlton
  Manny Charlton is notable for being a founding member of and the lead guitarist for the Scottish hard rock band, Nazareth from 1968 to 1990.-Charlton with Nazareth:...
  
   (Nazareth
  Nazareth (band)
  Nazareth is a Scottish hard rock band, founded in 1968, that had several hits in the UK in the early 1970s, and established an international audience with their 1975 album Hair of the Dog. Perhaps their best-known hit single was a cover of the ballad "Love Hurts", in 1975...
  
  )
• July 26 – Brenton Wood
  Brenton Wood
  Brenton Wood is an American singer and songwriter, best known for his two 1967 hit singles: "The Oogum Boogum Song" and "Gimme Little Sign".-Career:...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• July 28 – Riccardo Muti
  Riccardo Muti
  Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...
  
  , conductor
• July 30 – Paul Anka
  Paul Anka
  Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...
  
  , singer and songwriter
• August 2 – Doris Coley
  Doris Coley
  Doris Coley was a member of the Shirelles. She initially left the group in 1968, but returned in 1975....
  
   (The Shirelles
  The Shirelles
  The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...
  
  )
• August 3 – Beverly Lee
  Beverly Lee
  Beverly Lee was a member of the all girl vocal pop group, The Shirelles. She was born on August 3, 1941, in Passaic, New Jersey.Today, she holds the trademark for the Shirelles' name.-External links:*...
  
   (The Shirelles
  The Shirelles
  The Shirelles were an African-American girl group that achieved popularity in the early 1960s. They consisted of schoolmates Shirley Owens , Doris Coley , Addie "Micki" Harris , and Beverly Lee...
  
  )
• August 4 – Timi Yuro
  Timi Yuro
  Timi Yuro was an American soul and R&B singer. She is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era.-Early years:...
  
  , soul singer (died 2004)
• August 14 – David Crosby
  David Crosby
  David Van Cortlandt Crosby is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In addition to his solo career, he was a founding member of three bands: The Byrds, Crosby, Stills & Nash , and CPR...
  
   (The Byrds
  The Byrds
  The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
  
  , Crosby, Stills & Nash)
• August 19 – Alain Boublil
  Alain Boublil
  Alain Boublil is a musical theatre lyricist and librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg for musicals on Broadway and London's West End...
  
  , librettist
• August 20 – Dave Brock
  Dave Brock
  David Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
  
   (Hawkwind
  Hawkwind
  Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
  
  )
• August 21 – Tom Coster
  Tom Coster
  Tom Coster is an American keyboardist and composer. Detroit-born and San Francisco-raised, Coster played piano and accordion as a youth, continuing his studies through college and a productive five-year stint as a musician in the U.S...
  
   (Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
  )
• August 24 – Kenny Rogers
  Kenny Rogers
  Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
  
  , country musician
• August 26 – Chris Curtis
  Chris Curtis
  Chris Curtis was an English drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band, The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.-Early years:...
  
   (The Searchers
  The Searchers (band)
  The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....
  
  )
• August 30 – John McNally
  John McNally (musician)
  John McNally is an English guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the original founders of The Searchers in 1957, and is still with the band over 50 years later.-External links:...
  
   (The Searchers
  The Searchers (band)
  The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....
  
  )
• September 8 – Donald Drowty (Dante & the Evergreens
  Dante & the Evergreens
  Dante & the Evergreens was an American pop group formed at Santa Monica College in California in 1959.Dante & the Evergreens came to the attention of Dean Torrence , who took them to his managers, Herb Alpert and Lou Adler. The group's music was arranged by Tony Moon, who also played guitar on...
  
  )
• September 9 – Otis Redding
  Otis Redding
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
  
  , soul singer (died 1967)
• September 10 – Christopher Hogwood
  Christopher Hogwood
  Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA , HonMusD , born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor and harpsichordist
• September 13 – David Clayton-Thomas
  David Clayton-Thomas
  David Clayton-Thomas is a Canadian musician and singer best known as the lead vocalist for the American band; Blood, Sweat & Tears...
  
  , vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears
  Blood, Sweat & Tears is an American music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles...
  
  )
• September 14 – Alberto Naranjo
  Alberto Naranjo
  Alberto Naranjo [nah-rahn'-ho] is a musician. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. His mother, the singer Graciela Naranjo, was a radio, film and television pioneer in her homeland...
  
  , arranger and composer
• September 19 – Cass Elliot
  Cass Elliot
  Cass Elliot , born Ellen Naomi Cohen and also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and member of The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. Elliot was found dead in her room in London, England, from an apparent heart attack after two weeks of sold-out...
  
  , singer (died 1974)
• September 21 – Dickey Lee
  Dickey Lee
  Royden Dickey Lipscomb , known professionally as Dickey Lee , is an American pop/country singer and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage tragedy songs "Patches" and "Laurie ."-Career:Lee made his first recordings in his hometown of Memphis for Tampa...
  
  , country singer-songwriter
• September 24 – Linda McCartney
  Linda McCartney
  Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
  
   (Wings
  Wings (band)
  Wings were a British-American rock group formed in 1971 by Paul McCartney, Denny Laine and Linda McCartney that remained active until 1981....
  
  ) (died 1998)
• October 2 – Ron Meagher
  Ron Meagher
  Ron Meagher is best known as bassist of American rock band The Beau Brummels. When guitarist-songwriter Ron Elliott was putting the band together in 1964, he asked a friend, Kay Dane, if she knew any good bass players....
  
   (The Beau Brummels
  The Beau Brummels
  The Beau Brummels were an American rock band. Formed in San Francisco in 1964, the band's original lineup included Sal Valentino , Ron Elliott , Ron Meagher , Declan Mulligan , and John Petersen...
  
  )
• October 3 – Chubby Checker
  Chubby Checker
  Chubby Checker is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R&B hit "The Twist"...
  
  , singer
• October 13 – Paul Simon
  Paul Simon
  Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
  
  , singer-songwriter
• October 17
  • James Seals (Seals and Crofts
    Seals and Crofts
    Seals and Crofts is a band made up of Jim Seals and Dash Crofts . The soft rock duo was one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. They are best known for their hits "Summer Breeze" and "Diamond Girl"...
    
    )
  • Alan Howard
    Alan Howard
    Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, is an English actor known for his roles on stage, television and film.He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1966 to 1983, and played leading roles at the Royal National Theatre between 1992 and 2000.-Personal life:Howard is the only son of the actor...
    
     (The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
    
    )
• October 21
  • Manfred Lubowitz (Manfred Mann
    Manfred Mann
    Manfred Mann was a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band...
    
    )
  • Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper
    Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
    
    , Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones , Steve Cropper , Lewie Steinberg , and Al Jackson, Jr....
    
    
• October 24 – Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy
  Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...
  
  , singer
• October 28
  • Hank Marvin
    Hank Marvin
    Hank Brian Marvin is an English guitarist, best known as the lead guitarist for The Shadows. The group, which primarily performed instrumentals, was formed as a backing band for vocalist Cliff Richard...
    
    , guitarist (The Shadows
    The Shadows
    The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
    
    )
  • Curtis Lee
    Curtis Lee
    Curtis Lee is an American singer of the early 1960s, who twice over was one of the beneficiaries of 1961 productions by Phil Spector. These were "Pretty Little Angel Eyes" and "Under the Moon of Love" Curtis Lee (born October 28, 1941, Yuma, Arizona, U.S.) is an American singer of the early...
    
    , singer
• October 30 – Otis Williams
  Otis Williams
  Otis Williams is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he has also acted as a sporadic songwriter and record producer. Williams co-founded the Motown vocal group The Temptations in early 1960 as The Elgins, a group in which he continues to perform...
  
  , vocalist (The Temptations
  The Temptations
  The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...
  
  )
• November 2
  • Brian Poole
    The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
    
    , singer (The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes
    The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.-Career:They formed as Brian Poole and the Tremoloes influenced by Buddy Holly and The Crickets...
    
    )
  • Bruce Welch
    Bruce Welch
    Bruce Welch OBE, is an English guitarist, songwriter, producer and singer, best known as a member of The Shadows.-Biography:...
    
    , guitarist and singer (The Shadows
    The Shadows
    The Shadows are a British pop group with a total of 69 UK hit-charted singles: 35 as 'The Shadows' and 34 as 'Cliff Richard and the Shadows', from the 1950s to the 2000s. Cliff Richard in casual conversation with the British rock press frequently refers to the Shadows by their nickname: 'The Shads'...
    
    )
• November 5 – Art Garfunkel
  Art Garfunkel
  Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...
  
  , singer
• November 6 – Doug Sahm
  Doug Sahm
  Douglas Wayne Sahm , was an American musician from Texas. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he was a child prodigy in country music, but became a significant figure in blues rock and other genres. Today Sahm is considered one of the most important figures in what is identified as Tejano music...
  
   (Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet
  Sir Douglas Quintet was a rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite their British sounding name, they came out of San Antonio, Texas. Their career was established when they began working with Texas record-producer Huey P. Meaux, after which the band relocated to the West Coast...
  
  )
• November 8 – Simon Standage
  Simon Standage
  Simon Andrew Thomas Standage is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.- Biography and career :...
  
  , baroque violinist
• November 9 – Tom Fogerty
  Tom Fogerty
  Thomas Richard "Tom" Fogerty was an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist in Creedence Clearwater Revival and the elder brother of John Fogerty, lead singer and lead guitarist in that band....
  
   (Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival
  Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
  
  )
• November 21 – David Porter
  David Porter (musician)
  David Porter is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s...
  
  , soul musician
• November 24
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn (Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B band that was influential in shaping the sound of southern soul and Memphis soul. Original members of the group were Booker T. Jones , Steve Cropper , Lewie Steinberg , and Al Jackson, Jr....
    
    , The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live...
    
    )
  • Pete Best
    Pete Best
    Pete Best is a British musician, best known as the original drummer in The Beatles. He was born in the city of Madras, British India...
    
    , Beatles' original drummer
• November 27 – Eddie Rabbitt
  Eddie Rabbitt
  Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbitt was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974...
  
   (Amos Garrett
  Amos Garrett
  Amos Garrett is a Juno Award-winning American-Canadian musician, performer, and author. He holds dual citizenship and was raised in Toronto and Montreal...
  
  )
• November 29 – Denny Doherty
  Denny Doherty
  Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.-Early career:...
  
  , folk singer (The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas
  The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian/American vocal group of the 1960s . The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and 11 Top 40 hit singles...
  
  ) (died 2007)
• December 2 – Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann
  Manfred Mann
  Manfred Mann was a British beat, rhythm and blues and pop band of the 1960s, named after their South African keyboardist, Manfred Mann, who later led the successful 1970s group Manfred Mann's Earth Band...
  
  )
• December 18 – Sam Andrew
  Sam Andrew
  Sam Andrew is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, artist and founding member and guitarist of Big Brother and the Holding Company. During his career as musician and composer, Andrew has had three platinum albums and two hit singles...
  
  , Big Brother & The Holding Company
• December 19 – Maurice White
  Maurice White
  Maurice White is a Grammy Award–winning American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and Fred White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire...
  
   (Earth, Wind and Fire)
• December 27
  • Leslie Maguire, Gerry & the Pacemakers
    Gerry & the Pacemakers
    Gerry and the Pacemakers were a British beat music group prominent during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein and recorded by George Martin. They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with...
    
    
  • Mike Pinder
    Mike Pinder
    Michael Thomas "Mike" Pinder is an English rock musician, and is a founding member or the British rock group, the Moody Blues. He left the group following the recording of the band's album, Octave, in 1978...
    
    , The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues
    The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed....
    
    
• December 29 – Ray Thomas
  Ray Thomas
  Ray Thomas is an English musician, best known as the flautist and as a singer and composer in the rock band, The Moody Blues.-Career:...
  
   (The Moody Blues)

Deaths

• January 10 – Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
  
  , composer, 61
• January 23 – Dobri Hristov
  Dobri Hristov
  Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....
  
  , composer, 65
• February 13 – Blind Boy Fuller
  Blind Boy Fuller
  Blind Boy Fuller was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.-Life and career:Fulton Allen was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina,...
  
  , blues musician
• February 15 – Guido Adler
  Guido Adler
  Guido Adler was a Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and writer.His father Joachim, a physician, died of typhoid fever in 1857...
  
  , musicologist
• February 19 – Sir 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...
  
  , conductor and composer, 61
• February 21 – La Bolduc
  La Bolduc
  Mary Rose-Anna Travers, was a French Canadian singer and musician. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folksingers. Bolduc is often considered to be Quebec's first singer/songwriter...
  
  , Québécois singer, 46 (cancer)
• March 11 – Sir Henry Walford Davies
  Henry Walford Davies
  Sir Henry Walford Davies KCVO OBE was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Musick from 1934 until 1941.-Early life and education:...
  
  , composer, 71
• March 12 – Ernst Décsey
  Ernst Décsey
  Professor Dr. Ernst Décsey, born Ernst Deutsch , was an Austrian author and music critic.Décsey was born in Hamburg and studied law at the Vienna University...
  
  , music critic, 70
• March 17 – Wassily Sapellnikoff
  Wassily Sapellnikoff
  Wassily Sapellnikoff , was a Russian pianist.A more true transliteration of his name is Vasily Lvovich Sapelnikov, however when he concertised in England he chose the above version....
  
  , pianist
• March 20 – Oskar Baum
  Oskar Baum
  Oskar Baum was a Czech music educator and writer.He became blind at the age of 11.- External links :* http://www.aktion-patenschaften.de/autoren/b02.htm...
  
  , music teacher and writer
• March 27 – Primo Riccitelli
  Primo Riccitelli
  Primo Riccitelli , was an Italian composer.One of six children, he was born in the village of Cognoli, Campli in the Abruzzo Region of Italy. His father, Giuseppe, was a small land owner and his mother, Maria Maiaroli, a homemaker. The one-day old infant was baptized at the local parish hall of...
  
  , Italian composer, 65
• April 6 – Henry Burr
  Henry Burr
  Henry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
  
  , popular singer
• April 17 – Al Bowlly
  Al Bowlly
  Albert Allick Bowlly was a Southern-African singer, songwriter, composer and band leader, who became a popular Jazz crooner during the 1930s in the United Kingdom and later, in the United States of America. He recorded more than 1,000 records between 1927 and 1941...
  
  , popular singer
• April 19 – Johanna Müller-Hermann
  Johanna Müller-Hermann
  Johanna Müller-Hermann was an Austrian composer and pedagogue. She studied under Alexander von Zemlinsky, and was one of the foremost European female composers of orchestral and chamber music in her day...
  
  , Austrian composer and teacher
• April 21 – Agustín Bardi
  Agustín Bardi
  Agustin Bardi was an Argentine Tango musician. He was a pianist, violinist and composer.Bardi was born in Las Flores district of Buenos Aires and was couched in music from a young age....
  
  , tango composer, pianist and violinist, 56 (heart attack)
• May 1
  • Julia Claussen
    Julia Claussen
    Julia Claussen was a Swedish mezzo-soprano.A native of Stockholm, Claussen was educated at the Royal Academy of Music in that city; she also studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin. She made her debut in La favorita in Stockholm on January 19, 1903, and remained with the Royal Swedish Opera for...
    
    , operatic mezzo-soprano
  • 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...
    
    , lyricist
• May 18 – Milka Ternina
  Milka Ternina
  Milka Ternina was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses...
  
  , Croatian dramatic soprano
• May 23 – Slavko Osterc
  Slavko Osterc
  Slavko Osterc , was a Slovenian composer.Osterc was born in Veržej. He studied under Emerik Beran, who was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, in his youth before attending the Prague Conservatory from 1925 to 1927. While there he studied under Karel Boleslav Jirák, Vítězslav Novák, and Alois Hába...
  
  , Slovenian composer
• June 17 – Johan Wagenaar
  Johan Wagenaar
  Johan Wagenaar was a Dutch composer and organist.-Life:Born in Utrecht, out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins...
  
  , organist and composer, 78
• June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  Ignacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...
  
  , pianist and composer, former Prime Minister of Poland, 80
• July 5 – Oskar Fried
  Oskar Fried
  Oskar Fried was a German conductor and composer. An admirer of Gustav Mahler, Fried was the first conductor to record a Mahler symphony...
  
  , conductor and composer
• July 8 – Philippe Gaubert
  Philippe Gaubert
  Philippe Gaubert was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute....
  
  , composer and conductor, 62
• July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton
  Jelly Roll Morton
  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe , known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer....
  
  , jazz pianist, 55 (asthma
• July 30 – Hugo Becker
  Hugo Becker
  for french actor see Hugo BeckerHugo Becker was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist...
  
  , cellist, 78
• August 16 – John Coates
  John Coates (tenor)
  John Coates was a leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. His repertoire ranged from Bach and Purcell to contemporary works, and embraced the major heldentenor roles in Richard Wagner's operas...
  
  , operatic tenor
• September 19 – Enrique Saborido
  Enrique Saborido
  Enrique Saborido , was an Uruguayan tango pianist, composer and dance teacher, who also played violin.-Background and early life:...
  
  , tango pianist and composer, 64
• October 8
  • Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s...
    
    , US singer and actress, 41 (cirrhosis of the liver)
  • 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...
    
    , US lyric writer, 54
• October 26 – Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  , violinist and composer, 53 (heart attack)
• October 29 - Edmée Favart
  Edmée Favart
  Edmée Favart was a French soprano who had a varied and major career in opera and opéra comique and left many recordings of songs from roles she performed on stage.-Life and career:...
  
  , operatic soprano, 62
• October 30 – Leon "Chu" Berry, jazz saxophonist, 33 (car accident)
• November 1 – Félix Mayol
  Félix Mayol
  Félix Mayol was a French singer and entertainer.-Career:Mayol was born in Toulon, France. His parents were both amateur singers and actors, who arranged for Felix to make his debut stage at six years of age....
  
  , singer, 68
• November 16 – Miina Härma
  Miina Härma
  Miina Härma was a widely-recognised Estonian composer. She was the second Estonian second musician with higher education....
  
  , organist and composer, 77
• November 25 – Henri Christiné
  Henri Christiné
  Henri Marius Christiné was a French composer of Swiss birth.The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He began by teaching at the lycée in Geneva, while pursuing his interest in music and playing organ in a local church...
  
  , composer,
• November 29 – Gennaro Papi, Italian opera conductor, 54
• December 3 – Christian Sinding
  Christian Sinding
  Christian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...
  
  , composer, 85
• December 21 – Peetie Wheatstraw
  Peetie Wheatstraw
  Peetie Wheatstraw was the name adopted by the singer William Bunch, an influential figure among 1930s blues singers...
  
  , blues singer, 39 (car accident)
• December 22 – Jurgis Karnavičius, composer, 57
• December 24 – Siegfried Alkan
  Siegfried Alkan
  Siegfried Alkan was a German composer.Alkan was born in Dillingen, Saarland , the son of Johannes Alkan and Johanna Bonn in a family of merchants and musicians. Through his mother he was a distant cousin of the composers Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel and Giacomo Meyerbeer...
  
  , composer, 83
• date unknown
  • Rudy Concepcion
    Rudy Concepción
    Rudy Concepción was a popular Filipino film actor during the 1930s. He was dubbed Ang Idolong Kayumanggi -Biography:He was born Joaquin Concepcion in 1912...
    
    , actor and singer
  • Amalia Paoli
    Amalia Paoli
    Amalia Paoli was a Puerto Rican soprano. She was the sister of the prominent Puerto Rican tenor Antonio Paoli, but was herself a recognized musician in her own right.-First years:Amalia Paoli was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico...
    
    , operatic soprano
  • William H. Potstock
    William H. Potstock
    William Herman Potstock , was a German American musician and composer. His best known work "Souvenir de Sarasate" combines different techniques and is a popular virtuoso piece of intermediate violin students.- Life :Potstock was born in Northern Germany; he emigrated with his family via Bremen ...
    
    , music teacher and composer