Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally.... song
Song
A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments .... .
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.... , the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and 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.... . The song was published in 1926
1926 in music
Events* May 12 - Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 premiere, Leningrad. The composer is 19 years old.* June 26 - V?clav Talich conducts the world premi?re of Leo? Jan?cek's Sinfonietta in Prague... .
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Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally.... song
Song
A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments .... .
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.... , the lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and 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.... . The song was published in 1926
1926 in music
Events* May 12 - Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 premiere, Leningrad. The composer is 19 years old.* June 26 - V?clav Talich conducts the world premi?re of Leo? Jan?cek's Sinfonietta in Prague... .
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom singer. She performed the theme music to the James Bond films Goldfinger , Diamonds Are Forever , and Moonraker ....
Ben Bernie , born Bernard Anzelevitz, was an American jazz violinist and radio personality, often introduced as The Old Maestro. He was noted for his showmanship and memorable bits of snappy dialogue.... and his Orchestra (vocal: Lambert & Hillpot) (1927
1927 in music
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Arthur Briggs was a black United States Jazz trumpeter and orchestra leader who performed in Europe.Briggs played with Will Marion Cook at the end of the 1910s.... ' Savoy Syncopators (vocal: Al Bowlly
Al Bowlly
Albert Allick 'Al' Bowlly was a popular United Kingdom Jazz singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000 recordings between 1927 and 1941.... ) (1927
1927 in music
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Hadda Brooks , was a noted United States pianist, vocalist and composer. Her first single, "Swingin' the Boogie", which she composed, was issued in 1945....
Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an United States musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist.... (1957
Albert Edwin Condon , better known as Eddie Condon, was a jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader. A leading figure in the so-called "Chicago school" of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion.... and his Band (1952
1952 in music
Events*Pierre Schaeffer publishes his A la recherche d'une musique concr?te , an explanation of his experimental approach to composing.*Joni James begins her recording career at MGM... )
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.... (1955
1955 in music
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Ruth Etting was an United States singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings.Her signature tunes were "Shine On Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me ", and her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly like you", and "Shaking the Blues Away".... (1927
1927 in music
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Connie Francis is an United States pop singer best known for several international hit songs including "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where the Boys Are", and "Stupid Cupid".... (1961
1961 in music
Events*January 15 - Motown Records signs The Supremes*January 20 - Francis Poulenc's Gloria is premiered in Boston*February 12 - The Miracles' "Shop Around" becomes Motown's first million-selling single... )
Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.... and Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli.... (1964
1964 in music
Events*January 1 - Top of the Pops premieres on BBC television.*January 3 - Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show.... )
Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners.... Orchestra (1957
Dolores Hope is a singer, philanthropist and the widow of actor Bob Hope.She was born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. She is of Italian people and Irish people descent....
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-09722, Jack Hilton.jpgJack Hylton was a United Kingdom band leader and impresario.He was born in the Great Lever area of Bolton, Lancashire and died in Marylebone, London.... and his orchestra (1927
1927 in music
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Harry James was an United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work instantly identifiable....
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... (Stage production, 1925
1925 in music
Events* February 25 - Art Gillham - The Whispering Pianist records the first electrical recordings to be released for Columbia Records using the Western Electric system .... )
Dick Henry Jurgens was an American swing music bandleader, who enjoyed great popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s.Dick Jurgens was born in Sacramento, California to Dietrich Heinrich Jurgens and Clara Matilda Jurgens.... and his Orchestra (vocal: Ray Mcintosh) (1950
1950 in music
Events*January 3 - Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.*August - Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival.... )
Peggy King is a former pop music singer and Television personality.She is best remembered as the female singer on The George Gobel Show. She also appeared in American Bandstand, Maverick , The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Jack Benny Show....
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association .... (1957
Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
Joni Mitchell, Order of Canada is a Canada musician, songwriter, and Painting.Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Western Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto.... (2000
2000 in music
See also:* 2000 in music * :Category:Musical groups established in 2000* :Category:Record labels established in 2000... )
Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music.... (1959
1959 in music
Events* 1959 Jimi Hendrix buys first electric guitar: a White Single pickup Supro Ozark 1560 S.*January 5 The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook are held.... )
John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona.... (1958
1958 in music
Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959.... )
Charles Ellsworth Russell, much better known by his nickname Pee Wee Russell, was a jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but eventually focused solely on clarinet....
Dinah Shore was an United States singer, actress, and Celebrity. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman and both Jimmy Dorsey and his brother Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo succe... (1949
1949 in music
Events*December 24 - At the start of the Holy Year, Charles Gounod's Inno e Marcia Pontificale is adopted as the new papal anthem.*December 29 - Les Paul and Mary Ford marry.... )
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers".... (with Billy May) (1958
1958 in music
Events*January 28 - Little Richard begins attending classes at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama*January 29 - Bo Diddley records "Say Man", a #3 R&B hit when it is released in the Fall of 1959.... )
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers".... (with Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle
Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was a well-known United States bandleader, arrangement and Orchestration whose career spanned from the late 1940s, struggled with the advent of rock n roll, and saw a career revival in the early 1980s.... ) (1960
1960 in music
Events*January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army*February 6 - Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California.... )
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers".... (with Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter was an United States musician.Easy listening arrangement and composer, Winterhalter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.... ) (1949
1949 in music
Events*December 24 - At the start of the Holy Year, Charles Gounod's Inno e Marcia Pontificale is adopted as the new papal anthem.*December 29 - Les Paul and Mary Ford marry.... )
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Edward "Sonny" Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. He was also one of the most well-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording over 100 records in his lifetime....
Barbra Streisand is an United states singer and film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, political activist, film producer and film director....
Paul Whiteman was an United States orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and viola, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918.... and his Orchestra (Instrumental) (1927
1927 in music
Events* January 8 - Alban Berg's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna.* July 1 - B?la Bart?k's Piano Concerto No. 1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtw?ngler conducting.... )
Lester Willis Young , nicknamed 'Prez', was an United States jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He was also known to play the trumpet, violin, and drums....
