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  • January 1 - Pianist and composer Abram Chasins
    Abram Chasins

    Abram Chasins was an American composer and pianist.Born in New York, he studied at the Juilliard School, Columbia University and Curtis Institute of Music, under teachers including Ernest Hutcheson, Rubin Goldmark and J?zef Hofmann....
     makes his professional debut playing his own piano concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra
    Philadelphia Orchestra

    The Philadelphia Orchestra is an orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is historically considered to be one of the "Big Five " American orchestras....
    .
  • January 11 - Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Szymanowski

    Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Poland composer and pianist....
    's Stabat Mater
    Stabat Mater (Szymanowski)

    Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater was composed in 1925-1926 for soprano, alto and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and orchestra. The work is divided into six movement and uses Jozef Janowski's Polish translation of the Blessed Virgin Mary hymn, Stabat Mater:...
     is premiered.
  • May 3 - Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
    's Concert champêtre
    Concert champêtre

    Concert champ?tre is a harpsichord concerto by Francis Poulenc, which also exists in a version for piano solo with very slight changes in the solo part....
     for harpsichord
    Harpsichord

    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
     and orchestra is premiered in Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    .
  • May 17 - Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
    's Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)

    Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 3 in C minor in 1928....
     is premiered in Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
    .
  • December 31 - Guy Lombardo
    Guy Lombardo

    Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian bandleader and violinist.Forming The Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen Lombardo, Lebert Lombardo, and Victor Lombardo and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven."...
     plays "Auld Lang Syne
    Auld Lang Syne

    "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scotland poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song . It is well known in many English-speaking countries and is often sung to celebrate the start of the new year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day....
    " for the first time
  • Charley Patton's musical career begins
  • T-Bone Walker
    T-Bone Walker

    Aaron Thibeaux Walker or T-Bone Walker or Oak Cliff T-Bone was an United States blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar....
    's recording career begins
  • Memphis Minnie
    Memphis Minnie

    Memphis Minnie McCoy-Lawler was an United States Blues guitarist, vocalist, and composer....
    's recording career begins
  • Amédé Ardoin
    Amédé Ardoin

    Am?d? Ardoin was a Louisiana Creole musician, known for his high singing voice and virtuosity on the Cajun accordion. He is credited by Louisiana music scholars with laying the groundwork for Cajun music in the early 20th century....
     makes the first recordings of zydeco
    Zydeco

    'Zydeco' is a form of American roots or traditional music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 20th century from forms of Louisiana Creole music....
     in Louisiana
    Louisiana

    The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
    .
  • Manuel de Falla
    Manuel de Falla

    Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spain composer of European classical music....
     relocates to Granada
    Granada

    Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada , in the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia, Spain....
    .


Top blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 records


  • "That Crawling Baby Blues" - Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson

    "Blind" Lemon Jefferson was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues."...
  • "Travelin' Blues" - Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell

    William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell , was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a 12-string guitar fingerstyle Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956....
  • "Christmas In Jail" - Leroy Carr
    Leroy Carr

    Leroy Carr was an United States blues singer, songwriter and pianist who developed a laid-back, crooning technique and whose popularity and style influenced musician like Nat King Cole and Ray Charles....
  • "Hot Fingers" - Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson

    Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an United States blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos....
  • "High Water Everywhere" - Charley Patton


Published popular music


  • "Ain't Misbehavin'
    Ain't Misbehavin' (song)

    "Ain't Misbehavin" is a 1929 song written by Harry Brooks , Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller and Andy Razaf . Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later performed the song in the 1943 film Stormy Weather ....
    " w. Andy Razaf
    Andy Razaf

    Andy Razaf , was an African American composer, poet, and lyricist of such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin' " and "Honeysuckle Rose "....
     m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
    Fats Waller

    Fats Waller was an United States Jazz piano, organ , composer and comedy entertainer....
     & Harry Brooks
  • "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke
    Grant Clarke

    Grant Clarke was an American songwriter.Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians....
     m. Harry Akst
    Harry Akst

    Harry Akst was an United States songwriter who started out his career as a pianist in vaudeville accompanying singers such as Nora Bayes, Frank Fay and Al Jolson....
  • "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers
    Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)

    Jimmie Rodgers was a country singer in the early 20th century known most widely for his rhythmic yodeling. Among the first country music superstars and pioneers, Rodgers was also known as "The Singing Brakeman", "The Blue Yodeler", and "The Father of Country Music"....
  • "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
     m. Art Kassel
  • "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison
    Carson Robison

    Carson Jay Robison was an United States country music singer and songwriter. Although his impact is generally forgotten today, he played a large role in promoting country music in its early years through his work on numerous recordings and appearances on radio....
     & Frank Luther
    Frank Luther

    Frank Luther was an United States country music singer, dance band vocalist, playwright, songwriter and pianist.Born Francis Luther Crow on a farm near Lakin, Kansas, Kansas, forty miles from the Colorado line, he was raised on a farm near Hutchinson, Kansas, where his father, William R....
  • "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell
    Sidney D. Mitchell

    Sidney D. Mitchell was a Hollywood film industry lyricist and composer. He is best known for his collaborations with Lew Pollack on movie scores at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s....
     m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad
    Con Conrad

    Con Conrad was an United States songwriter and producer....
  • "Bilbao Song" w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer

    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
     w. (Ger) Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht

    was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
     m. Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill

    Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
     English lyrics 1961
  • "Black And Blue" w. Andy Razaf
    Andy Razaf

    Andy Razaf , was an African American composer, poet, and lyricist of such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin' " and "Honeysuckle Rose "....
     m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
    Fats Waller

    Fats Waller was an United States Jazz piano, organ , composer and comedy entertainer....
  • "Bolero" m. Maurice Ravel
    Maurice Ravel

    Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and pianist of Impressionist music known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his melodies, orchestral and instrumental Texture and effects....
  • "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed

    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
     m. Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown

    Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown was an United States songwriter, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s....
  • "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
  • "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift
    Kay Swift

    Kay Swift was an United States composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a complete musical theater. Written in 1930, Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; Fine and Dandy has become a jazz standard....
  • "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed

    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
     m. Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown

    Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown was an United States songwriter, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s....
  • "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman
  • "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis
    Benny Davis

    Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs.Davis was born in New York City. He started performing in vaudeville acts when he was 14 years old and later performed as Blossom Seeley?s accompanist with Benny Fields? tours....
     m. J. Fred Coots
    J. Fred Coots

    John Frederick Coots was an United States 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....
  • "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis

    Sam M. Lewis was an United States singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York on October 25, 1885. Lewis began his music career by singing in cafes throughout New York City, and began writing songs in 1912....
     & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
    Harry Warren

    Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
  • "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow
    Sam Coslow

    Sam Coslow was an United States songwriter, singer and film producer. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager....
  • "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....
  • "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
     m. Charlie Henderson
  • "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept
    Sam H. Stept

    Samuel Howard Stept was an American songwriter who wrote for Broadway, Hollywood and the big bands. He became known simply as Sam Stept or Sam H....
  • "Do What You Do" 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....
     & Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
    Victor Schertzinger

    Victor L. Schertzinger was an United States 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 ....
  • "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis
    Vivian Ellis

    Vivian Ellis was an England musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the theme "Coronation Scot"....
  • "Feeling Sentimental" 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. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "Funny, Dear, What Love Can Do" w.m. Charles Straight, Joe Bennett & George Little
  • "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You?" w. Andy Razaf & Don Redman
    Don Redman

    Donald Matthew Redman was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer.Redman was born in Piedmont, West Virginia. His father was a music teacher, his mother was a singer....
     m. Don Redman
  • "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose
    Billy Rose

    Billy Rose was an United States impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon " ....
     & Edward Eliscu
    Edward Eliscu

    Edward Eliscu was a lyricist, playwright, producer and actor. He attended the City College of New York where he attained a Bachelor of Science degree....
     m. Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans

    Vincent Youmans was an United States popular composer and Broadway theatre producer....
  • "Happy Days Are Here Again
    Happy Days Are Here Again

    "Happy Days Are Here Again" is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp.....
    " w. Jack Yellen
    Jack Yellen

    Jack Selig Yellen was a Jewish-United States lyricist and screenwriter.Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old....
     m. Milton Ager
    Milton Ager

    Milton Ager was an United States pianist and composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician....
  • "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
    Harry Warren

    Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
  • "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen
    Jack Yellen

    Jack Selig Yellen was a Jewish-United States lyricist and screenwriter.Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old....
     m. Milton Ager
    Milton Ager

    Milton Ager was an United States pianist and composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician....
  • "He's So Unusual
    He's So Unusual

    "He's So Unusual" is a song from the late 1920s performed by Helen Kane, who was the inspiration for the Betty Boop character. The song was written by Al Sherman, Al Lewis and Abner Silver....
    " w.m. Al Sherman
    Al Sherman

    Al Sherman was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members....
    , Al Lewis
    Al Lewis (lyricist)

    Al Lewis was born on April 18, 1901 in New York City, New York. Lewis is thought of mostly as a Tin Pan Alley era lyricist; however, he did write music on occasion as well....
     and Abner Silver
    Abner Silver

    Abner Silver was an American songwriter who worked primarily during the Tin Pan Alley era of the craft. He was born on December 28, 1899 in New York, NY....
  • "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz
    Howard Dietz

    Howard Dietz was an United States publicist, lyricist, and Libretto....
     m. Arthur Schwartz
    Arthur Schwartz

    Arthur Schwartz was an United States composer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood....
  • "Honeysuckle Rose
    Honeysuckle Rose (song)

    "Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1928 song composed by Fats Waller, with lyrics written by Andy Razaf.Fats Waller's 1934 recording was inducted in the List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients E-I in 1999....
    " w. Andy Razaf
    Andy Razaf

    Andy Razaf , was an African American composer, poet, and lyricist of such well-known songs as "Ain't Misbehavin' " and "Honeysuckle Rose "....
     m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
    Fats Waller

    Fats Waller was an United States Jazz piano, organ , composer and comedy entertainer....
  • "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she later...
     m. Jack King
  • "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields
    Arthur Fields

    Arthur Fields was a United States singer and songwriter.He was born Abe Finkelstein in Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, but grew up mainly in Utica, New York....
    , Fred Hall & Billy Rose
  • "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
    I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan

    "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" is a popular music song.The music was written by Arthur Schwartz; the lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was published in 1929 in music....
    " w. Howard Dietz
    Howard Dietz

    Howard Dietz was an United States publicist, lyricist, and Libretto....
     m. Arthur Schwartz
    Arthur Schwartz

    Arthur Schwartz was an United States composer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood....
    . Introduced by Clifton Webb
    Clifton Webb

    Clifton Webb was an United States actor, dancer and singer....
     in the revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     The Little Show
    The Little Show

    The Little Show is a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. The scenic design was by Jo Mielziner.Produced by William A....
  • "I Have To Have You" Leo Robin
    Leo Robin

    Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
    , Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting

    Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
  • "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony
    Leslie Sarony

    Leslie Sarony was a United Kingdom entertainer, singer and songwriter. Sarony was born in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London.He began his stage career aged 14 with the group Park Eton's Boys....
  • "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan. Introduced in the revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     John Murray Anderson's Almanac
    John Murray Anderson's Almanac

    John Murray Anderson's Almanac opened on December 10, 1953 at New York's Imperial Theatre, New York City, United States. The Broadway revue, which starred Harry Belafonte, Hermione Gingold, Polly Bergen, Orson Bean, Tina Louise, Monique Van Vooren, and Billy DeWolfe closed on June 26, 1954, after 229 performances....
     by Trixie Friganza
    Trixie Friganza

    Trixie Friganza , born Delia O?Callaghan, began her career as an operetta soubrette working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act on the vaudeville circuit....
     and Jimmie Savo. Performed by Doris Day
    Doris Day

    Doris Mary Anne von Kappelhoff is a German-American singer, actress, and animal welfare advocate known as Doris Day. Able to sing, dance, and play comedy and dramatic roles, she became one of the biggest box-office stars....
     in the film Young Man with a Horn
    Young Man with a Horn

    Young Man with a Horn may refer to:* Young Man with a Horn , a novel by Dorothy Baker, loosely based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke* Young Man with a Horn , a film adaptation of the novel...
  • "If I Can't Have You" w. Al Bryan m. George W. Meyer
  • "If I Had A Talking Picture Of You" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "If Love Were All" w.m. Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....
  • "I'll See You Again
    I'll See You Again

    "I'll See You Again" is a song by the English songwriter Sir Noel Coward.It originated in Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet, however soon emerged as a Standard in its own right and became one of Coward's best known compositions....
    " w.m. Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....
  • "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson
    Al Jolson

    Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
    , B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     & Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
     & Leon Zimmerman
  • "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling
    I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling

    "I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling" is a popular music song with music by Fats Waller and Harry Link and lyrics by Billy Rose, published in 1929 in music....
    " w. Billy Rose
    Billy Rose

    Billy Rose was an United States impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon " ....
     m. Fats Waller
    Fats Waller

    Fats Waller was an United States Jazz piano, organ , composer and comedy entertainer....
     & Harry Link
  • "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "Keepin' Myself For You" w. Sidney Clare m. Vincent Youmans.
  • "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Little By Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan. Introduced by Sally O'Neil
    Sally O'Neil

    Sally O'Neil was an United States film actress of the 1920s. She was born as Virginia Louise Noonan, one of 11 children born to a judge in Bayonne, New Jersey....
     and Eddie Quillan
    Eddie Quillan

    Edward "Eddie" Quillan was an United States film actor whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent films and continued through the age of television in the 1980s....
     in the film The Sophomore
  • "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Liza" w. Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
     & Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
    . Intrpoduced by Nick Lucas
    Nick Lucas

    Nick Lucas was an United States singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as "the grandfather of the jazz guitar", whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s....
     in the musical Show Girl
    Show Girl

    Show Girl is a musical theatre with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn, and music by George Gershwin. Its heroine, aspiring Broadway theatre showgirl Dixie Dugan , was a character created by J....
  • "Looking At You" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
    . Introduced by Jessie Matthews
    Jessie Matthews

    Jessie Matthews, Order of the British Empire was an English people actress, dancer and singer of the 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period....
     and Dave Fitzgibbon in the musical Wake Up and Dream
    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream is a musical revue with a book by English playwright John Hastings Turner , music and lyrics by Cole Porter and others. The most famous song from the show is the Cole Porter standard "What Is This Thing Called Love?"....
  • "Louise" w. Leo Robin
    Leo Robin

    Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
     m. Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting

    Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
    . Introduced by Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     in the film Innocents of Paris
  • "Lovable And Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant. Introduced by Jack Oakie
    Jack Oakie

    Jack Oakie was an United States actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on Theatre, radio and television....
    , John Harron
    John Harron

    John Harron was an American actor. He appeared in 167 films between 1918 and 1940.Born in New York, New York, he was the brother of actor Robert Harron, and the sister of actress Mary Harron ....
     and Ned Sparks
    Ned Sparks

    Ned Sparks was a Canada character actor. Sparks was well known for his deadpan expression and deep, gravelly voice....
     in the film Street Girl
    Street Girl

    Street Girl is a 1929 Musical film comedy film/Drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles....
  • "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere" w. Elsie Janis m. Edmund Goulding
  • "March Of The Grenadiers" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger Introduced by Jeanette MacDonald
    Jeanette MacDonald

    Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
     in the film The Love Parade
    The Love Parade

    The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
  • "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting
  • "Mean to Me
    Mean to Me (Fred E. Ahlert song)

    "Mean To Me" is a popular music song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Roy Turk, published in 1929 in music.The song is a popular standard, recorded by many artists....
    " w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
  • "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
    Fats Waller

    Fats Waller was an United States Jazz piano, organ , composer and comedy entertainer....
  • "Miss Hannah" w.m. Don Redman & John Nesbitt
  • "Miss You" w.m. Harry Tobias, Charles Tobias & Henry Tobias
  • "Moanin' Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Libby Holman
    Libby Holman

    Libby Holman was an United States Torch song and Actor who was, in her time, considered both a scandalous tarnished lady and a tragedy-prone millionairess....
     in the revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
         The Little Show
    The Little Show

    The Little Show is a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. The scenic design was by Jo Mielziner.Produced by William A....
  • "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans. Introduced by Mayo Methot in the musical Great Day
    Great Day

    Great Day is an unreleased film which was to star Joan Crawford, Anita Page, and Johnny Mack Brown, and is an unusual example of a production that was started and shut down before its completion....
  • "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin
    Leo Robin

    Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
     m. Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting

    Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
     & Newell Chase. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     in the film     Playboy of Paris
  • "My Kinda Love
    My Kinda Love

    "My Kinda Love" is a popular music song with music by Louis Alter and lyrics by Jo Trent, published in 1929 in music....
    " w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter
    Louis Alter

    Louis Alter was an United States piano, songwriter and composer. Alter was 13 when he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Stuart Mason....
  • "My Love Parade" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
  • "My Mother's Eyes" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer
  • "My Sin" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Nobody's Using It Now" Clifford Grey, Victor Schertzinger
  • "On The Amazon" w. Clifford Grey & Greatrex Newman m. Vivian Ellis
  • "Orange Blossom Time" w. Joe Goodwin m. Gus Edwards
  • "Pagan Love Song" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
  • "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine" w. Al Dubin m. Joe Burke
  • "Paris, Stay the Same" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
  • "Piccolo Pete" w.m. Phil Baxter
    Phil Baxter

    Phil Baxter was an American songwriter, singer and band leader. Born on September 5, 1896 in Navarro County, Texas, he graduated from Daniel Baker College....
  • "Puttin' on the Ritz
    Puttin' on the Ritz

    "Puttin' on the Ritz" is a pop music written and published in 1929 in music by Irving Berlin and introduced by Harry Richman in the musical film Puttin' on the Ritz ....
    " w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Raisin' the Roof" w. Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields

    Dorothy Fields was an United States libretto and lyrics.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway theatre musical theaters and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters....
     m. Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh

    James Francis McHugh was a United States composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs....
  • "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
  • "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie
    Edgar Leslie

    Edgar Leslie was an American songwriter. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G....
     m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar
    Irving Caesar

    Irving Caesar , was a prominent United States lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for "Swanee ," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two ," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written....
     m. Cliff Friend
    Cliff Friend

    Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series....
  • "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar
    Irving Caesar

    Irving Caesar , was a prominent United States lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for "Swanee ," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two ," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written....
  • "Seventh Heaven" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Lew Pollack
  • "She's Such A Comfort To Me" w. Douglas Furber, Max Lief, Nathaniel Lief & Donovan Parsons m. Arthur Schwartz
  • "She's Wonderful" w. Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
     m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "A Ship Without A Sail
    A Ship Without a Sail

    "A Ship Without a Sail" is a 1929 popular music song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical Heads Up! , where it was introduced by Jack Whiting....
    " w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
    . Introduced by Jack Whiting in the musical     Heads Up!
    Heads Up!

    Heads Up is Toronto duo Death from Above 1979's debut recording, a six song Extended play released by Vancouver Record label Ache Records on December 15, 2002....
    . Performed in the film version by Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
  • "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
  • "Canto Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona
  • "Singin' in the Bathtub
    Singin' in the Bathtub

    Singing in the Bathtub is a song written in 1929 by Michael H. Cleary, with lyrics by Herb Magidson and Ned Washington for the film The Show of Shows ....
    " w. Herb Magidson
    Herb Magidson

    Herb Magidson is a popular music lyricist.He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980....
     & Ned Washington
    Ned Washington

    Ned Washington was an United States lyricist....
     m. Michael H. Cleary
  • "Singin' in the Rain
    Singin' in the Rain (song)

    "Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929 in music. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was performed as early as 1927....
    " w. Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed

    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
     m. Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown

    Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown was an United States songwriter, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s....
  • "So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" w. Billy Moll m. Harry Barris
  • "S'posin"' w. Andy Razaf m. Paul Denniker
  • "Spread A Little Happiness" w.m. Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers & Greatrex Newman
  • "Star Dust
    Stardust (song)

    "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
    " w. Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish

    Mitchell Parish was an United States lyricist....
     m. Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
     Music 1927.
  • "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Then You've Never Been Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ted Fiorito
  • "Thinking Of You
    Thinking of You

    "Thinking of You" is a popular music song. It was written by Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar. It was introduced in the Broadway theater show The Five O'Clock Girl ....
    " w. Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar

    Bert Kalmar was an United States lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a Magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life....
     m. Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby

    Harry Ruby was an United States songwriter and screenwriter.Born in New York, Ruby failed in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player....
  • "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin
    Leo Robin

    Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
     & Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting

    Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
  • "Turn on the Heat" w. B. G. DeSylva & Lew Brown
    Lew Brown

    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
    . Introduced by Sharon Lynn and Frank Richardson in the film     Sunny Side Up
    Sunny side up

    Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
    .
  • "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin
    Leo Robin

    Leo Robin was an United States composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Academy Award for Best Song-winning song "Thanks for the Memory", sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938....
     m. Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting

    Richard A. Whiting was a composer of popular music songs.He was born in Peoria, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He attended the Harvard Military School in Los Angeles, California....
  • "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe
  • "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine
    Wedding Bells Are Breaking up That Old Gang of Mine

    "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up " is a popular music Barbershop music song, also known as just "That Old Gang Of Mine". The song laments the loss of childhood friendships when growing up into adulthood....
    " w. Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal

    Irving Kahal, [b 5 March 1903 in Houtzdale, d 7 February 1942 in New York] was a popular lyricist active in the 1920's and '30's. He is best remembered for his collaborations with composer Sammy Fain which started in 1926 when Kahal was working in vaudeville sketches written by Gus Edwards ....
     & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain

    Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
  • "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
  • "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "What Wouldn't I Do For That Man?" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Jay Gorney
  • "When It's Springtime In The Rockies" w. Mary Hale Woolsey & Milton Taggert m. Robert Sauer
  • "Why Can't I?" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Why Was I Born?
    Why Was I Born?

    "Why Was I Born?" is a 1929 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II.It was written for the show Sweet Adeline ....
    " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "With A Song in My Heart
    With a Song in My Heart (song)

    "With A Song in My Heart" is a show tune from the 1929 in music Rodgers and Hart musical theatre Spring is Here.In the original Broadway production it was introduced by John Hundley and Lillian Taiz....
    " w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Without A Song
    Without a Song

    "Without a Song" is a popular music song.The music was written by Vincent Youmans, the lyrics by Billy Rose and Edward Eliscu. The song was published in 1929 in music....
    " w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose
    Billy Rose

    Billy Rose was an United States impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon " ....
     m. Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans

    Vincent Youmans was an United States popular composer and Broadway theatre producer....
  • "You Do Something To Me
    You Do Something to Me

    "You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical play Fifty Million Frenchmen ....
    " w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
    . Introduced by William Gaxton
    William Gaxton

    William Gaxton , born Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, California, was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. He appeared in some ten films and eleven shows....
     in the musical     Fifty Million Frenchmen
    Fifty Million Frenchmen

    Fifty Million Frenchmen is a Musical theater written by Cole Porter and produced by Warner Bros. President Harry Warner on Broadway theatre in 1929....
  • "You Were Meant For Me
    You Were Meant for Me (1929 song)

    "You Were Meant for Me" is a popular music song with music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Arthur Freed, published in 1929 in music.It was first introduced in the 1929 in film musical film The Broadway Melody. It was later sung by Charles King for the feature film The Hollywood Revue of 1929....
    " w. Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed

    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an United States lyricist and a Hollywood film producer....
     m. Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown

    Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown was an United States songwriter, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s....
  • "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
  • "Zigeuner" w.m. Noël Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....


Classical music

  • Kurt Atterberg
    Kurt Atterberg

    Kurt Magnus Atterberg was a Sweden composer. He is best known for his symphonies, operas and ballets. Atterberg once said that: "The Russians, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger were my ideals." His music combines their influences with Swedish folk tunes....
     - Symphonic Poem Älven, Op. 33
  • Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber

    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....
     -     Serenade [for quartet or string orchestra]
  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
     - The Two Violin Rhapsodies
  • Arnold Bax
    Arnold Bax

    Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Royal Victorian Order , was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of Romantic music and Impressionism, always with a strong Celtic influence....
     - Symphony No. 3
    Symphony No. 3 (Bax)

    The Symphony No. 3 by Arnold Bax was completed in 1929. It was dedicated to Henry Joseph Wood and is perhaps the most performed and most immediately approachable of Arnold Bax's symphonies....
    ; Sonata for Two Pianos; Legend, for Viola and Piano
  • Amy Beach
    Amy Beach

    Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an United States composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music....
     - String Quartet, Op. 89
  • Conrad Beck
    Conrad Beck

    Conrad Beck was a Switzerland composer.Beck was the son of a pastor. His stay in Paris between 1924 and 1933 proved crucial to his artistic development, where he studied with Jacques Ibert and also made contact with Arthur Honegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Albert Roussel....
     - Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
  • Boris Blacher
    Boris Blacher

    Boris Blacher was a Germany composer....
     -     Jazz Koloraturen
  • Ernest Bloch
    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch was a Switzerland-born United States composer....
     -     Helvetia (Symphonic Poem); Abodah for Violin
  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     - Rhapsody for String Quartet
  • Alan Bush
    Alan Bush

    Alan Dudley Bush was a United Kingdom composer and pianist.Bush was born in Dulwich, London, first attending Highgate School and then the Royal Academy of Music....
     -     Dialectic Op. 15 for String Quartet
  • Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland was an American classical music composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a balance between modernism music and American folk styles....
     - Symphonic Ode
  • Henry Cowell
    Henry Cowell

    Henry Cowell was an United States composer, music theory, pianist, teacher, publisher, and impresario. His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:...
     - Piano Concerto
  • Cornelis Dopper
    Cornelis Dopper

    Cornelis 'Kees' Dopper was a Netherlands composer, Conductor and teacher....
     - Incidental Music to Vondel’s     Lucifer
  • Pierre-Octave Ferroud
    Pierre-Octave Ferroud

    Pierre-Octave Ferroud was a France composer of classical music.He was born in Chasselay, Rh?ne, near Lyon. He went to Lyon, to Strasbourg where he studied with Guy Ropartz, and again to Lyon where he was for a time an associate and "disciple" of Florent Schmitt, and a pupil of Georges Martin Witkowski....
     - Violin Sonata
  • Alexander Gretchaninov
    Alexander Gretchaninov

    Alexander Tikhonovich Gretchaninov was a Russian Romantic music composer....
     - String Quartet No. 4 in F Op. 124
  • Paul Juon
    Paul Juon

    Paul Juon was a Moscow-born composer and student of Anton Arensky, Sergei Taneyev and Woldemar Bargiel. His younger brother Konstantin Yuon was a notable painter....
     -     Litaniae for Piano, Violin and Cello in C sharp minor
  • Wilhelm Kempff
    Wilhelm Kempff

    Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff was a world-renowned Germany virtuoso pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well-known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he recorded at least once....
     - Symphony No. 2
  • Ernst Krenek
    Ernst Krenek

    Ernst Krenek was an Austrian composer. He explored atonality and other Contemporary classical music styles and wrote a number of books, including Music Here and Now , a study of Johannes Ockeghem , and Horizons Circled: Reflections on my Music ....
     - Triophantasie, Opus 63
  • Igor Markevitch
    Igor Markevitch

    Igor Markevitch was a Ukrainians composer and conducting....
     - Sinfonietta in F; Piano Concerto
  • Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinu

    Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
     - String Quartet No. 3 H.183, Violin Sonata No. 1 H.355
  • Olivier Messiaen
    Olivier Messiaen

    Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organ , and ornithology. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at the age of 11 and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupr? among his teachers....
     - Diptyque pour orgue
  • Darius Milhaud
    Darius Milhaud

    Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as the Groupe des Six - and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century....
     - Concerto No. 1 for Viola and Orchestra, Op. 108
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti
    Ildebrando Pizzetti

    Ildebrando Pizzetti was an Italy composer of classical music.Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880. He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi and Gian Francesco Malipiero....
     -     Rondo Veneziano
  • Francis Poulenc
    Francis Poulenc

    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a France composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music....
     -     Aubade
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
     -     Prodigal Son, op. 46 (1928-29, ballet)
  • Silvestre Revueltas
    Silvestre Revueltas

    Silvestre Revueltas was a Mexico composer of European classical music, violinist and conducting....
     -     Pieza para Orquesta
  • Julius Röntgen
    Julius Röntgen

    Julius R?ntgen was a German-Dutch composer of classical music....
     - Piano Concerto in E major
  • Albert Roussel
    Albert Roussel

    File:Roussel.gifAlbert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a France composer. Although Roussel spent seven years as a midshipman, only turning to music as an adult, he became one of the most prominent French composers of the inter-war period....
     - Petite Suite Op. 39; Trio Op. 40 for flute, viola and cello
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
     - Piano Piece Op. 33a
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
     - Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op. 20
    Symphony No. 3 (Shostakovich)

    The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major by Dmitri Shostakovich was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and Academy Capella Choir under Aleksandr Gauk on 6 November 1931....
  • Ernst Toch
    Ernst Toch

    Ernst Toch was a composer of european classical music and film scores....
     - Bunte Suite, Op. 48; Cello Sonata, Op. 50; Kleine Ouvertüre zu der Fächer (Little Overture to the (opera the) Fan), Op. 51
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer of all time....
     -     Mômo Precoce, fantasy for piano and orchestra
  • William Walton
    William Walton

    Sir William Turner Walton Order of Merit was a United Kingdom composer and Conductor .His style was influenced by the works of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev as well as jazz music, and is characterized by rhythmic vitality, bittersweet harmony, sweeping Romantic music melody and brilliant orchestration....
     - Viola Concerto
    Viola Concerto (Walton)

    The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 for the famous violist Lionel Tertis. The concerto was modelled on Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No....
  • Egon Wellesz
    Egon Wellesz

    Egon Joseph Wellesz was an Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and an eminent scholar of Byzantine music....
     - String Quartet No. 4 Op. 28


Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

  • Hans Chemin-Petit
    • Der gefangene Vogel
    • Lady Monika
  • Paul Hindemith
    Paul Hindemith

    Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and Conducting....
     -     Neues vom Tage
    Neues vom Tage

    Neues vom Tage is an opera in three parts by Paul Hindemith, with a German language libretto by Marcellus Schiffer.The opera is a satire of modern life, celebrity and marriage, involving parodies of both Puccini's music and Berlin cabaret....
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
     -     The Gambler
    The Gambler (Prokofiev)

    The Gambler is an opera in four acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the story of the The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky....
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
     -     Von Heute auf Morgen
    Von heute auf morgen

    Von heute auf morgen is a one act opera composed by Arnold Schoenberg, to a German libretto by "Max Blonda," the pseudonym of Gertrud Schoenberg, the composer's wife....
     (completed January 1 1929)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ralph Vaughan Williams Order of Merit was an England composer of symphony, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film Film score. He was also a collector of England folk music and folk song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes,...
     -     Sir John in Love
    Sir John in Love

    Sir John in Love is an opera in four acts by the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The libretto, by the composer himself, is based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor....


Musical theater


  • Bitter Sweet
    Bitter Sweet

    Bitter Sweet is an operetta in three acts written by Noel Coward and first produced in 1929 at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. It ran for a very successful 967 performances....
     (Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre 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"....
    )
    • London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre
      His Majesty's Theatre

      His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating over 1400. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the City's Union Terrace Gardens....
       on July 12 and ran for 673 performances
    • Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre
      Ziegfeld Theatre

      The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre theatre formerly located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City....
       on November 5 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre
      Shubert Theatre (Broadway)

      The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S....
       on February 17, 1930 for a total run of 159 performances
  • Boom Boom Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre
    Casino Theatre

    The Casino Theatre was a New York City Broadway theatre from 1882 to 1930 in the United States. It was located at 1404 Broadway, at W. 39th Street....
     on January 28 and ran for 72 performances
  • Dear Love opened at the Palace Theatre
    Palace Theatre

    Palace Theatre may refer to:...
     on November 14 and ran for 132 performances
  • Die Dreigroschenoper
    The Threepenny Opera

    The Threepenny Opera is a Musical theatre by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, in collaboration with translator Elisabeth Hauptmann and set designer Caspar Neher....
     Vienna production
  • Fifty Million Frenchmen
    Fifty Million Frenchmen

    Fifty Million Frenchmen is a Musical theater written by Cole Porter and produced by Warner Bros. President Harry Warner on Broadway theatre in 1929....
     Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre
    Lyric Theatre (New York)

    The Lyric was a prominent theater in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1903 and hosted such notable shows in the early decades of the 20th century as Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen....
     on November 27 and ran for 254 performances
  • Follow Thru
    Follow Thru

    Follow Thru is a musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures....
     Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 9 and ran for 401 performances
  • Follow Through
    Follow Thru

    Follow Thru is a musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be produced by Paramount Pictures....
     London production opened at the Dominion Theatre
    Dominion Theatre

    The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles' Circus and Centre Point Tower, in the London Borough of Camden....
     on October 3 and ran for 148 performances
  • Heads Up!
    Heads Up!

    Heads Up is Toronto duo Death from Above 1979's debut recording, a six song Extended play released by Vancouver Record label Ache Records on December 15, 2002....
     Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 11 and ran for 144 performances
  • Hold Everything
    Hold Everything

    Hold Everything may refer to:*Hold Everything!, 1928 Broadway musical*Hold Everything ...
     London production opened at the Palace Theatre
    Palace Theatre

    Palace Theatre may refer to:...
     on June 12 and ran for 173 performances
  • Hot Chocolates Broadway revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     opened at the Hudson Theatre
    Hudson Theatre

    The Hudson Theatre is a defunct Broadway theatre theater located at 141 W. 44th St., New York, NY...
     on June 20 and ran for 219 performances
  • The House That Jack Built London revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     opened at the Adelphi Theatre
    Adelphi Theatre

    The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
     on November 8 and ran for 270 performances
  • Das Land Des Lächelns (Franz Lehár
    Franz Lehár

    Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
    ) - Berlin production opened at the Metropol Theater on October 10
  • The Little Show
    The Little Show

    The Little Show is a musical revue with lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz. The scenic design was by Jo Mielziner.Produced by William A....
     Broadway revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     opened at the Music Box Theatre
    Music Box Theatre

    The Music Box Theater is a legitimate Broadway theatre theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.The once most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C....
     on April 30 and ran for 321 performances
  • Love Lies London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
    Gaiety Theatre, London

    The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, England, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand, London. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre, London....
     on March 20 and ran for 347 performances
  • Mr. Cinders
    Mr. Cinders

    Mr. Cinders is a musical theater. The music is by Vivian Ellis & Richard Myers , and the libretto by Clifford Grey & Greatorex Newman. The story is an inversion of the Cinderella fairy tale with the gender roles reversed....
     London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre
    Adelphi Theatre

    The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
     on February 11 and ran for 528 performances
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat

    Show Boat is a musical theatre in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song Bill , which was originally written by Kern and author-lyricist P....
     (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
     and Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
    ) - Paris production
  • Spring Is Here
    Spring Is Here

    "Spring is Here" is a 1928 popular music song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical I Married an Angel , where it was introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal....
     (Music: Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
     Lyrics: Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     Book: Owen Davis
    Owen Davis

    Owen Gould Davis, Sr. was an American dramatist. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film....
    ) Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on March 11 and ran for 104 performances
  • Toad of Toad Hall
    Toad of Toad Hall

    Toad of Toad Hall is the first of several dramatisations of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. It was written by A. A. Milne, with incidental music by Harold Fraser-Simson....
     London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
    Lyric Theatre (London)

    The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B....
     on December 17
  • Top Speed
    Top Speed

    Top Speed is a musical comedy film released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers....
     Broadway production opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on December 25 and transferred to the Royale Theatre on March 10, 1930 for a total run of 104 performances
  • Wake Up and Dream
    Wake Up and Dream

    Wake Up and Dream is a musical revue with a book by English playwright John Hastings Turner , music and lyrics by Cole Porter and others. The most famous song from the show is the Cole Porter standard "What Is This Thing Called Love?"....
     (Music and Lyrics: Cole Porter
    Cole Porter

    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana, Indiana.His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate , Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day ", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "Two Little Babes In The Wood"...
    )
    • London revue
      Revue

      A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
       opened at the Pavilion
      London Pavilion

      The London Pavilion is a building located on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street on the north-east side of, and facing, Piccadilly Circus in London....
       on March 27 and ran for 263 performances
    • Broadway revue
      Revue

      A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
       opened at the Selwyn Theatre on December 30 and ran for 136 performances


Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
s

  • Applause
    Applause (film)

    Applause is a 1929 in film black and white "backstage" Musical film film, shot during the early years of sound films. Based on a novel by Beth Brown, the film was staged and directed by Rouben Mamoulian....
     starring Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan

    Helen Morgan was an U.S. 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....
    . Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
    Rouben Mamoulian

    Rouben Mamoulian was an Armenians-United States film director and theatre director....
    .
  • The Battle of Paris starring Gertrude Lawrence
    Gertrude Lawrence

    Gertrude Lawrence was an English people actress and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End Theatre and on Broadway theatre....
    , Charles Ruggles
    Charles Ruggles

    Charles Sherman ?Charlie? Ruggles was a comic United States actor. In a career spanning six decades, Ruggles appeared in close to 100 feature films....
    , Walter Petrie, Gladys DuBois and Arthur Treacher
    Arthur Treacher

    Arthur Veary Treacher was an England actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He was a veteran of World War I.After the war he established a stage career and in 1928 he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called Great Temptations....
    . Directed by Robert Flory.
  • Broadway
    Broadway (1929 film)

    Broadway is a film directed by P?l Fej?s from a play by George Abbott, Phillip Dunning and Jed Harris. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis , Merna Kennedy and Thomas E....
     starring Glenn Tryon
    Glenn Tryon

    Glenn Tryon , was an American film actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. He appeared in 67 films between 1923 in film and 1951 in film....
    , Merna Kennedy
    Merna Kennedy

    Merna Kennedy was an American actress of the late silent era....
    , Evelyn Brent
    Evelyn Brent

    Evelyn Brent, , was an United States film and stage actress....
     and Otis Harlan
    Otis Harlan

    Otis Harlan was an American comedic actor.Harlan was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1865. He married Nellie Harvey and had a daughter named Maria....
    . Directed by Paul Fejos
    Paul Fejos

    Paul Fejos was a film director in United States.Fejos was born in Budapest, Hungary as P?l Fej?s. He emigrated to the United States in 1924 and became a naturalized citizen in 1930....
    .
  • The Broadway Melody
    The Broadway Melody

    The Broadway Melody is a musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the first musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929-1930....
  • The Cocoanuts
    The Cocoanuts

    The Cocoanuts was the first feature-length Marx Brothers film, produced by Paramount Pictures. The musical comedy stars the four Marx Brothers, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton and Margaret Dumont....
  • The Desert Song
    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Morocco fighters, against French colonial rule....
     starring John Boles
    John Boles (actor)

    John Boles was a United States actor....
    , Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda
    Louise Fazenda

    Louise Fazenda was an United States film actor, appearing chiefly in silent film comedy films....
     and Myrna Loy
    Myrna Loy

    Myrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, but after a few minor roles in silent films, she devoted herself fully to an acting career, and from 1925 gradually established herself as a film actress....
    . Directed by Roy Del Ruth
    Roy Del Ruth

    Roy Del Ruth was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s....
    .
  • Glad Rag Doll
    Glad Rag Doll

    Glad Rag Doll is a 1928 song composed by Milton Ager with lyrics by Jack Yellen and Dan Dougherty. It was Ager and Yellen?s first movie theme song, written for the motion picture of the same name starring Dolores Costello....
  • Glorifying the American Girl
    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 in film musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that highlights Ziegfeld Follies performers....
     starring Mary Eaton
    Mary Eaton

    Mary Eaton was a leading stage actress, singer and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s. A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies and early sound films such as Glorifying the American Girl and The Cocoanuts, but found her career in sharp decline by the mid 1930s....
     and Dan Healy and featuring Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor

    Eddie Cantor was an United States comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway theatre, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children....
    , Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan

    Helen Morgan was an U.S. 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....
     and Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
    .
  • Gold Diggers of Broadway
  • Happy Days
    Happy Days (1929 film)

    Happy Days is an 80 minute musical film, notable for being the first feature film shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. The film features an array of stars who were contracted to William Fox's Fox Film Corporation at that time, including Marjorie White, Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Janet Gaynor, George Jessel , El Brend...
     starring Charles E. Evans and Marjorie White
    Marjorie White

    Marjorie White , was a Canada-born actress of stage and early talkies....
     and featuring Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor

    Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
     and Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell

    Charles Farrell was a notable United States film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven , Street Angel , and Lucky Star ....
  • Hollywood Revue Of 1929
  • Honky Tonk starring Sophie Tucker
    Sophie Tucker

    Sophie Tucker was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia....
  • The Love Parade
    The Love Parade

    The Love Parade is a 1927 in film musical comedy film. The plot concerns the romantic difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her new husband, Count Alfred ....
     starring Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
    , Jeanette MacDonald
    Jeanette MacDonald

    Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy ....
    , Lupino Lane
    Lupino Lane

    Henry William George Lupino or Lupino Lane was a British-born actor and theatre manager from the Lupino family. Lane appeared in a wide range of theatrical and film performances but he is best known for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl which popularised the Lambeth walk....
     and Lillian Roth
    Lillian Roth

    Lillian Roth was an United States singer and actress....
  • Marianne starring Marion Davies
    Marion Davies

    Marion Davies was an United States film actress.Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst....
    , Lawrence Gray
    Lawrence Gray

    Lawrence Gray was an United States actor of the 1920s and 1930s.He appeared in over 40 films between 1925 and 1936 although many were B movies....
     and Cliff Edwards
    Cliff Edwards

    Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes....
  • On with the Show!
    On with the Show (1929 film)

    On with the Show! is historically important in cinema history as the first modern sound film photographed entirely in Technicolor. To explain this breakthrough, this film was promoted in 1929 terms as a 100% 'talkie', meaning that it had synchronized Speech communication....
     starring Arthur Lake
    Arthur Lake

    Arthur Lake may refer to:*Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells *Arthur Lake *Arthur Lake , 1970s professional skateboarder...
    , Betty Compson
    Betty Compson

    Betty Compson was an Oscar nominated United States actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive filmography....
     and Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown (comedian)

    Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
    , and featuring Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters

    Ethel Waters was an United States blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues....
  • Paris
    Paris (1929 film)

    Paris is a black and white musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences: four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway theatre musical of the same name....
     released November 7 starring Irène Bordoni
    Irène Bordoni

    File:Ir?ne Bordoni 01.jpgIr?ne Bordoni was a singer and a Broadway theatre and film actress. Born in Ajaccio, Corsica, France from Italian family she had been a child actor, performing in Paris on stage and in silent films for a few years when she came to the United States in 1912....
    , Jack Buchanan
    Jack Buchanan

    Jack Buchanan , was a British people theatre and film actor, singer, producer and director. He was known for three decades as the embodiment of the debonair man-about-town in the tradition of George Grossmith Jr....
     and Zasu Pitts
    ZaSu Pitts

    ZaSu Pitts was an United States film actress who starred in many silent film drama film, although later, her career digressed to comedy film sound films....
    .
  • Rio Rita
    Rio Rita (1929 film)

    Rio Rita is a 1929 in film RKO Pictures musical comedy starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles along with the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey....
     starring Bebe Daniels
    Bebe Daniels

    Bebe Daniels was an United States actor. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England....
     and John Boles
    John Boles (actor)

    John Boles was a United States actor....
  • Sally starring Marilyn Miller
    Marilyn Miller

    Marilyn Miller was one of the most popular Broadway theatre musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences....
    , Alexander Gray
    Alexander Gray

    Air Vice Marshal Alexander Gray Order of the Bath, Military Cross, RAF was a senior Royal Air Force leader during World War II.During the Second World War he occupied the following posts:...
     and Joe E. Brown
    Joe E. Brown (comedian)

    Joseph Evans Brown was an United States actor and comedian. In 1902 at the age of 10, he joined a troupe of circus tumblers known as the Five Marvellous Astons which toured the country on both the circus and vaudeville circuits....
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat (1929 film)

    Show Boat is a film based on the novel by Edna Ferber. It was released by Universal Pictures in two versions, one a silent film and one a part-talkie with a prologue....
  • So Long Letty starring Charlotte Greenwood
    Charlotte Greenwood

    Frances Charlotte Greenwood was an United States actress and dancer.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Greenwood started in vaudeville, and eventually starred on Broadway theatre, movies and radio....
  • Song of Love starring Belle Baker
    Belle Baker

    Belle Baker was an United States singer and actress.Born Bella Becker, she rose to fame as a vaudeville vocalist, appearing on Broadway and in nightclubs, films, radio and television....
    , Ralph Graves
    Ralph Graves

    Ralph Graves , was an American film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1918 in film and 1949 in film.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and died in Santa Barbara, California....
     and Eunice Quedens
    Eve Arden

    Eve Arden was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Awards-winning United States actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she is perhaps best remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging high school teacher in the classic Our Miss Brooks , and as the Rydell High School prin...
  • Sunny Side Up
    Sunny side up

    Sunny side up can refer to:*Fried egg*Sunny Side Up, a 1929 film directed by David Butler starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, noted for its use of an almost wandering mobile camera in a way highly atypical of the early sound period....
     starring Janet Gaynor
    Janet Gaynor

    Janet Gaynor was an American actor.One of the most popular actresses of the silent films era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in the films: Sunrise , Seventh Heaven , and Street Angel ....
    , Charles Farrell
    Charles Farrell

    Charles Farrell was a notable United States film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven , Street Angel , and Lucky Star ....
     and Marjorie White
    Marjorie White

    Marjorie White , was a Canada-born actress of stage and early talkies....
  • Tanned Legs starring Ann Pennington
    Ann Pennington

    Ann Pennington may refer to:*Ann Pennington , popular stage star of the 1910s and 1920s*Ann Pennington , model who posed for Playboy...
    , June Clyde, Arthur Lake
    Arthur Lake

    Arthur Lake may refer to:*Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells *Arthur Lake *Arthur Lake , 1970s professional skateboarder...
    , Dorothy Revier
    Dorothy Revier

    Dorothy Revier was an American actress.She was educated in the public schools of Oakland before going to New York City to study classical dancing....
     and Sally Blane
    Sally Blane

    Sally Blane was an American actress. Blane was the sister of actresses Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young, and half-sister to actress Georgiana Young, the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban....
    . Directed by Marshall Neilan
    Marshall Neilan

    Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an United States motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer....
    .
  • The Vagabond Lover starring Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
    , Sally Blane
    Sally Blane

    Sally Blane was an American actress. Blane was the sister of actresses Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young, and half-sister to actress Georgiana Young, the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban....
     and Marie Dressler
    Marie Dressler

    Marie Dressler was an Academy Awards-winning Canada actress....
    . Directed by Marshall Neilan
    Marshall Neilan

    Marshall Ambrose Neilan was an United States motion picture actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producer....
    .
  • Why Leave Home? starring Sue Carol
    Sue Carol

    Sue Carol was an American actress and talent agent.Carol's film career lasted from the late 1920s into the 1930s, and when it ended she became a talent agent; one of her clients was Alan Ladd to whom she was married from 1942 until his death in 1964....
    , Nick Stuart, Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee

    Dixie Lee born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, was an United States actress, dancer, and singer. Reviews and publicity for Dixie's budding film work were favorable but, according to her son Gary, she couldn't sufficiently overcome her shyness and insecurity...
     and Ilka Chase
    Ilka Chase

    Ilka Chase was an American actress and novelist.Born in New York City and educated at convent and boarding schools in the United States, England, and France, she was the only child of Edna Woolman Chase, the editor in chief of Vogue magazine, and her first husband, Francis Dane Chase....
    . Directed by Raymond Cannon.
  • Words and Music
    Words and Music (1929 film)

    Words and Music is a 1929 in film United States musical film comedy motion picture, directed by James Tinling, and starring Lois Moran, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees, and Frank Albertson....
     starring Lois Moran
    Lois Moran

    Lois Moran was an United States film actress.She was born Lois Darlington Dowlin in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Sedona, Arizona....
    , Helen Twelvetrees
    Helen Twelvetrees

    Helen Twelvetrees was an United States stage and screen performer, considered a top female star in the early days of Sound film....
     and Tom Patricola. Directed by James Tinling.


Recorded popular music

  • "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
    Ethel Waters

    Ethel Waters was an United States blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues....
  • "Button Up Your Overcoat
    Button Up Your Overcoat

    "Button Up Your Overcoat" is a popular music song. The music was written by Ray Henderson and Irving Berlin, the lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown....
    " by Helen Kane
    Helen Kane

    Helen Kane was an United States popular singer, best known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" trademark and her signature song, "I Wanna Be Loved By You"....
  • "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....
  • "He's So Unusual
    He's So Unusual

    "He's So Unusual" is a song from the late 1920s performed by Helen Kane, who was the inspiration for the Betty Boop character. The song was written by Al Sherman, Al Lewis and Abner Silver....
    " by Helen Kane
    Helen Kane

    Helen Kane was an United States popular singer, best known for her "boop-boop-a-doop" trademark and her signature song, "I Wanna Be Loved By You"....
  • "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
    Annette Hanshaw

    Annette Hanshaw was one of the first great female jazz singers. In the late 1920s she ranked alongside Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith and the Boswell Sisters....
  • "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
    Aileen Stanley

    Aileen Stanley was a United States popular singer.Stanley was born as Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge in Chicago, Illinois. In her childhood, with the urging of her widowed mother, she and her older brother Stanley sang and danced in vaudeville as Stanley and Aileen....
  • "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis
    Ted Lewis (musician)

    Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an United States 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....
     & His Jazz Band
  • "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
    Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders

    Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders was an American jazz and dance band, active from the late 1910s through the 1920s. The group was known simply as The Serenaders until Johnny Hamp became the band leader....
  • "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
  • "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys
    The Rhythm Boys

    The Rhythm Boys were a male singing trio consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker. Crosby and Rinker began performing together in 1925 and were recruited by Paul Whiteman in late 1926....
    , featuring Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  • "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor

    Eddie Cantor was an United States comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway theatre, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children....
  • "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
  • "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
  • "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems
    Ted Weems

    Wilfred Theodore Weems was a United States bandleader and musician.Born in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, Weems learned to play the violin and trombone....
     & His Orchestra
  • "Singin' in the Rain
    Singin' in the Rain (song)

    "Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929 in music. However, it is unclear exactly when the song was written with some claiming that the song was performed as early as 1927....
    " by Cliff Edwards
    Cliff Edwards

    Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes....
  • "Stardust
    Stardust (song)

    "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
    " by Isham Jones
    Isham Jones

    Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, violinist, bassist and songwriter....
     & His Orchestra
  • "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     & His Orchestra
  • "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee
    Rudy Vallée

    Rudy Vall?e was an United Statesn singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Born Hubert Prior Vall?e in Island Pond, Vermont, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vall?e....


Births

  • January 3 - Ernst Mahle
    Ernst Mahle

    Ernst Mahle is a Brazilian composer and orchestra Conductor .Mahle studied music with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart before coming to Brazil in 1951, and then with Hans-Joachim Koellreutter in Piracicaba....
    , Brazilian composer and conductor
  • January 6 - Wilbert Harrison
    Wilbert Harrison

    Wilbert Harrison was an United States singer/pianist/guitarist/harmonica player.Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, North Carolina, Harrison had a Hot 100 number-one hits of 1959 gramophone record in 1959 with the song "Kansas City "....
    , singer (d. 1994)
  • January 22 - Petr Eben
    Petr Eben

    Petr Eben was one of the most distinguished composers in the Czech Republic....
    , composer (d. 2007)
  • January 28 - Mr Acker Bilk
    Acker Bilk

    Acker Bilk Order of the British Empire , born Bernard Stanley Bilk , is a clarinetist. He is known for his trademark goatee, bowler hat, striped waistcoat and his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register clarinet style....
    , jazz musician
  • February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith
    Jerry Goldsmith

    Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was an American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards , and also won four Emmy Awards....
    , composer for film and television (d. 2004)
  • March 4 - Bernard Haitink
    Bernard Haitink

    Bernard Johan Herman Haitink Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire is a Netherlands conducting and violinist....
    , violinist and conductor
  • April 1 - Jane Powell
    Jane Powell

    Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
    , singer and actress
  • April 5 - Joe Meek
    Joe Meek

    Joe Meek was a pioneering England record producer and songwriter acknowledged as one of the world's first and most imaginative independent producers....
    , UK record producer (d. 1967)
  • April 6 - André Previn
    André Previn

    Andr? Previn Order of the British Empire is a German-born American Academy Award and Grammy Award winning pianist, conducting, and composer. He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948....
    , pianist and conductor
  • April 8 - Jacques Brel
    Jacques Brel

    Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgium singer-songwriter. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly regarded by many leading critics of popular music....
    , Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 1978)
  • April 29
    • Halina Lukomska
      Halina Lukomska

      Halina Lukomska is a Poland soprano. She was married to composer Augustyn Bloch....
      , soprano
    • Peter Sculthorpe
      Peter Sculthorpe

      Peter Joshua Sculthorpe Order of Australia Order of the British Empire is a noted Australian composer. He is known primarily for his orchestral and chamber music, such as Kakadu and Earth Cry , which evoke the sounds and feeling of the Australian bushland and outback....
      , composer
  • May 1 - Sonny James
    Sonny James

    Sonny James is an United States country music singer and songwriter. In 2006, James was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame....
    , country singer and songwriter
  • May 3 - Denise Lor
    Denise Lor

    Denise Lor is an United States popular music singer and actress.She was a featured artist on Garry Moore's television show.Ms. Lor was married to and subsequently divorced from TV director and singer Jay Martin, with whom she had sons, Ron and Dennis....
    , singer
  • May 16 - Betty Carter
    Betty Carter

    Betty Carter , born Lillie Mae Jones, was an United States jazz singer renowned for her Musical improvisation technique and idiosyncratic vocal style....
    , jazz singer (d. 1998)
  • May 25 - Beverly Sills
    Beverly Sills

    Beverly Sills was an American operatic soprano who enjoyed success in the 1960s and 1970s. She was famous for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in operas around the world and on recordings....
    , operatic soprano (d. 2007)
  • June 9 - Johnny Ace
    Johnny Ace

    Johnny Ace , born John Marshall Alexander, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, was one of the stars of United States of America rhythm and blues singing....
    , R&B singer (d. 1954)
  • June 23 - June Carter Cash, singer and songwriter, wife of Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
     (d. 2003)
  • July 3 - Pedro Iturralde
    Pedro Iturralde

    Pedro Iturralde, born 1929, is a Spain saxophonist, saxophone teacher, and composer of European classical music.He began his musical studies with his father and performed in his first professional engagements on saxophone at age eleven....
    , composer
  • July 9 - Lee Hazlewood
    Lee Hazlewood

    Lee Hazlewood was an United States country music and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late fifties and singer Nancy Sinatra in the sixties....
    , singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2007)
  • July 18 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
    Screamin' Jay Hawkins

    Jalacy Hawkins, best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American singer. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues," Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him perhaps the first shock rocker....
    , singer (d. 2000)
  • August 12 - Buck Owens
    Buck Owens

    Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens, Jr., was an United States singer and guitarist, who had 21 number-one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts, with his legendary band, the Buckaroos....
    , singer and guitarist (d. 2006)
  • August 16 - Bill Evans
    Bill Evans

    William John Evans was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny...
    , jazz pianist (d. 1980)
  • August 24 - William Winfield (The Harptones
    The Harptones

    The Harptones was an United States doo-wop musical group, which formed in Manhattan in 1953.The group never had a top forty pop hit, or even a record on the national R&B charts, yet they are still considered one of the most influential doo-wop groups, both for their lead singer, Willie Winfield and their pianist/arranger, Raoul Cita....
    )
  • September 13 - Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov

    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous basso singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Giuseppe Verdi....
    , operatic bass (d. 2004)
  • October 2 - Kenneth Leighton
    Kenneth Leighton

    Kenneth Leighton was an England composer.Leighton was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and was a chorister at Wakefield Cathedral from 1937 to 1942....
    , composer (d. 1998)
  • October 12 - Nappy Brown
    Nappy Brown

    Napoleon Brown Culp better known by his stage name Nappy Brown, was an American R & B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard charts No 2, Don't Be Angry and Night Time Is the Right Time....
    , blues singer
  • October 24 - George Crumb
    George Crumb

    George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant-garde music. He is noted as an explorer of unusual timbres and extended technique. Examples include spoken flute and glass marbles poured onto an open piano....
    , composer
  • October 26 - Neal Matthews, Jr.
    Neal Matthews, Jr.

    Neal Matthews, Jr. was an United States singer.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he served with the United States Army during the Korean War where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal....
     (The Jordanaires
    The Jordanaires

    The Jordanaires are an United States singing group formed in 1948 in Springfield, Missouri....
    )
  • November 10 - Marilyn Bergman
    Marilyn Bergman

    Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English studies at New York University....
    , songwriter
  • November 11 - LaVern Baker
    LaVern Baker

    LaVern Baker was an United States rhythm and blues singer....
    , R&B singer (d. 1997)
  • November 12 - Toshiko Akiyoshi
    Toshiko Akiyoshi

    is a Japanese American Jazz piano, composer/arranger and bandleader. Among a very few successful female instrumentalists of her generation in jazz, she is also recognized as a major figure in jazz composition....
    , jazz pianist
  • November 24 - Eileen Barton
    Eileen Barton

    Eileen Barton , was an United States singer best known for her Apostrophe 1950 hit song, "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake."She was born in Brooklyn, New York....
    , singer (d. 2006)
  • November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr., record producer and founder of the Tamla Motown label
  • November 30 - Dick Clark
    Dick Clark (entertainer)

    Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark is an American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman; he served as chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, which he has sold part of in recent years....
    , host of     American Bandstand
    American Bandstand

    American Bandstand is a television show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark , who also served as producer....
  • December 4 - Wilhelm Georg Berger
    Wilhelm Georg Berger

    Wilhelm Georg Berger was a Romanian composer, musicologist, violist and conductor.BiographyWilhelm G. Berger was born in Rupea, Romania....
    , composer (d. 1993)
  • December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
    Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt is an Austrian Conducting, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the classical music era era and earlier....
    , conductor
  • December 23 - Chet Baker
    Chet Baker

    Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player and singer.Specializing in relaxed, even melancholy music, Baker rose to prominence as a leading name in cool jazz in the 1950s....
    , jazz trumpeter and singer (d. 1988)
  • December 25
    • Billy Horton (The Silhouettes
      The Silhouettes

      The Silhouettes were an United States doo wop/Rhythm and blues group whose single "Get a Job " was a #1 chart-topper on the Billboard R&B singles chart and pop music singles record chart in 1958....
      )
    • Chris Kenner
      Chris Kenner

      Chris Kenner was a New Orleans R&B singer and songwriter best known for two classic hits of the early 1960s that became staples in the repertoires of many other artists....
      , R&B singer and songwriter (d. 1976)


Deaths

  • January 11 - Elfrida Andrée
    Elfrida Andrée

    Elfrida Andr?e was a Sweden organist, composer, and conducting.Andr?e was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar....
    , organist, composer and conductor (b. 1841)
  • January 22 - Adolph Brodsky
    Adolph Brodsky

    Adolph Davidovich Brodsky was a Russian violinist.He was born in Taganrog on the Sea of Azov. His grandfather and father were also violinists....
    , violinist (b. 1851)
  • January 24 - Jacques Bouhy
    Jacques Bouhy

    Jacques-Joseph-Andr? Bouhy a Belgium baritone, most famous for being the first to sing the Toreador Song in the role of Escamillo in Carmen....
    , operatic baritone
  • January 30 - La Goulue
    La Goulue

    Louise Weber was a France can-can dancer who performed under the stage name of La Goulue . She also was referred to as the Queen of Montmartre....
    , can-can dancer (b. 1866)
  • February 24 - André Messager
    André Messager

    Andr? Charles Prosper Messager , France composer and musician, was born at Montlu?on....
    , conductor and composer (b. 1853)
  • March 15 - Pinetop Smith
    Pinetop Smith

    Clarence Smith, better known as Pinetop Smith or Pine Top Smith was an influential American boogie-woogie style blues music pianist....
    , jazz pianist (b. 1904) (shot, during a fight in a dance hall)
  • April 4 - Édouard Schuré
    Édouard Schuré

    Eduard Schur? , French philosopher, poet, writer, musical critic and Advertising of esoteric literature. He is known by being the author of "The Great Initiated" in which he describes the path followed by some of the ancient philosophers in search for profound esoteric knowledge, so often called the "mysticism", as describing the process of...
    , poet and music critic (b. 1841)
  • April 15 - Antonio Smareglia
    Antonio Smareglia

    Antonio Smareglia was an Italian opera composer....
    , opera composer (b. 1854)
  • April 30 - Birger Sjöberg
    Birger Sjöberg

    Birger Sj?berg was a modern Swedish poet and songwriter.Originally a journalist, Sj?berg wrote songs in his spare time. His first collection Frida's Book was extremely popular....
    , poet and songwriter (b. 1885)
  • May 17 - Lilli Lehmann
    Lilli Lehmann

    Lilli Lehmann was a Germany operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility.The future opera star's father, August Lehmann, was a singer while her mother, Maria Theresia L?w , was a soprano of Jewish origin....
    , operatic soprano (b. 1848)
  • June 2 - Don Murray
    Don Murray (clarinetist)

    Don Murray was an early jazz clarinet and saxophone player.Don Murray was born in Joliet, Illinois, and attended high school in Chicago. In his teens he made a name for himself as one of the best young jazz clarinetists and saxophonists in the city....
    , jazz
    Jazz

    Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
     clarinettist (b. 1894) (car accident)
  • June 4 - Harry Frazee
    Harry Frazee

    Harry Herbert Frazee was an United States theatrical agent, Theatrical producer and Theatre director, and former owner of the Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923....
    , producer of Broadway musicals (b. 1881)
  • July 3 - Dustin Farnum
    Dustin Farnum

    Dustin Lancy Farnum was an American singer, dancer and an actor in silent movies during the early days of motion pictures. After a great success in a number of stage roles, in 1914 he landed his first film role in the movie 'Soldiers of Fortune', and later in Cecil B....
    , singer, dancer and actor (b. 1874)
  • August 3 - Emile Berliner
    Emile Berliner

    Emile Berliner was a Germany-born United States inventor, best known for developing the gramophone record gramophone . He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gramophone#Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Mon...
    , inventor of the gramophone (b. 1851)
  • August 19
    • Sergei Diaghilev
      Sergei Diaghilev

      Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , also referred to as Serge, was a Russian people art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes from which many famous dancers and choreographers would later arise....
      , ballet impresario (b. 1872)
    • Chris Kelly
      Chris Kelly (jazz)

      Chris Kelly was an United States jazz trumpeter born in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana on Deer Range Plantation, perhaps best-known for his early contributions on the New Orleans jazz scene....
      , jazz musician (b. c. 1890)
    • Meta Seinemeyer
      Meta Seinemeyer

      Meta Seinemeyer was a German operatic soprano.She studied at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin with Ernst Grenzebach, and made her debut at the Deutsche Opernhaus in 1918....
      , operatic soprano (born 1894)
  • August 22 - Lucy Broadwood
    Lucy Broadwood

    Lucy Etheldred Broadwood , was principally an English folksong collector and researcher during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As one of the founder members of the Folk-Song Society and Editor of the Folk Song Journal, she was one of the main influences of the English folk revival of that period....
    , folk song collector and researcher (b. 1858)
  • September 4 - Frederick Freeman Proctor
    Frederick Freeman Proctor

    Frederick Freeman Proctor or F.F. Proctor was a vaudeville impresario who pioneered the method of continuous vaudeville. He opened the Twenty-third Street Theatre in New York City....
    , vaudeville impresario
  • October 3 - Jeanne Eagels
    Jeanne Eagels

    Jeanne Eagels was an actor on Broadway theatre and in several motion pictures. She was a former Ziegfeld Follies Girl who went on to greater fame on Broadway and in the emerging medium of "talkies" ....
    , Ziegfeld girl and actress (b. 1894)
  • October 14 - Henri Berger
    Henri Berger

    Henri Berger was a composer and royal bandmaster of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1872 to his death.Berger was born Heinrich August Wilhelm Berger in Prussia and became a member of Germany's imperial army band....
    , composer and royal bandmaster of Hawaii (b. 1844)
  • October 17 - Ada Crossley
    Ada Crossley

    Ada Jemima Crossley was an Australian singer.Crossley was a daughter of E. Wallis Crossley, a farmer, was born at Tarraville, Gippsland, Victoria ....
    , singer (b. 1874)
  • October 27 - A. M. Willner
    A. M. Willner

    Alfred Maria Willner was an Austrian writer, philosopher, musicologist, composer and librettist. He began composing mostly music for the piano before making a career writing librettos for ballets, operas and operettas....
    , composer and librettist (b. 1859)
  • December - Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson

    "Blind" Lemon Jefferson was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues."...
    , blues musician (b. 1894)
  • December 28 - Hans Kreissig
    Hans Kreissig

    Hans Kreissig was a Germany-born United States piano, music education, and conducting. He is noted for establishing the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1900 and for serving as its first music director....
    , pianist and conductor (b. 1856)
  • date unknown
    • Antonio Chacón
      Antonio Chacón

      Antonio Chac?n was a Spain flamenco singer.Chac?n began earning a living by performing flamenco around 1884. He toured Andalucia with his two friends, the Molina brothers - dancer Antonio Molina, and guitarist Javier Molina....
      , flamenco singer (b. 1869)
    • Frederick Weatherly
      Frederick Weatherly

      Frederick Edward Weatherly was an England lawyer, author, songwriter and radio entertainer. He wrote the lyrics of the well-known ballad Danny Boy which is set to the tune A Londonderry Air....
      , songwriter (b. 1848)