1924 in music

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Contents

1 Events

2 Published popular music

Events

October 17 - Leos Janacek's String Quartet No. 1, Kreutzer Sonata, is premiered in Prague

Published popular music

"Adoring You" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
"Alabamy Bound" w. B. G. De Sylva & Bud Green m. Ray Henderson
"All Alone" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Amapola" w. Joseph M. Lacalle (Sp) Albert Gamse (Eng) m. Joseph M. Lacalle
"At The End of The Road" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
"Bagdad" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now" Ager, Yellen
"Big Boy" m. Milton Ager
"The Blues Have Got Me" Silver, Turk
"California, Here I Come" w.m. Al Jolson, Buddy de Sylva and Joseph Meyer
"Call Of The South" Berlin
"Charley, My Boy" w.m. Gus Kahn & Ted Fio Rito
"Copenhagen" w. Walter Melrose m. Charlie Davis
"Cover Me Up With The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
"Deep In My Heart, Dear" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Over Night" w. Billy Rose & Marty Bloom m. Ernest Breuer
"Doo Wacka Doo" w. Clarence Gaskill & Will Donaldson m. George Horther
"Doodle Doo Doo" w.m. Art Kassel & Mel Stitzel
"Drinking Song (Drink! Drink! Drink!)" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"The End Of The Road" w.m. Harry Lauder & William Dillon
"Everybody Loves My Baby" w.m. Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams
"Fascinating Rhythm" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Follow The Swallow" w. Billy Rose & Mort Dixon m. Ray Henderson
"Golden Days" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"The Half Of It Dearie Blues" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp Of Savannah)" w.m. Milton Ager, Charles Bates, Bob Bigelow & Jack Yellen
"He's The Hottest Man In Town" Owen Murphy, Jay Gorney
"Honest And Truly" w. Leo Wood m. Fred Rose
"How Come You Do Me Like You Do?" w.m. Gene Austin & Roy Bergere
"I Want To Be Happy" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
"I Wonder What's Become Of Sally" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
"I'll See You In My Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
"I'm A Little Blackbird Looking For A Bluebird" w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyers & Arthur Johnson
"I'm Coming At Your Call" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"In Shadowland" w. Sam W. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ruth Brooks & Fred E. Ahlert
"Indian Love Call" (first published as "The Call") w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
"It Had To Be You" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
"Jealous" w. Tommy Malie & Dick Finch m. Jack Little
"Jimtown Blues" w.m. Fred Rose
"June Brought The Roses" w. Ralph Stanley m. John Openshaw
"June Night" w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer
"Just We Two" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"Keep Smiling At Trouble" w. Al Jolson & B. G. De Sylva m. Lewis E. Gensler
"Lazy" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Let Me Linger Longer In Your Arms" w. Cliff Friend m. Abel Baer
"Little Jazz Bird" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Mama's Gone, Goodbye" w.m. A. J. Piron & Peter Bocage
"The Man I Love" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Mandalay" w.m. Earl Burtnett, Abe Lyman & Gus Arnheim
"Mandy Make Up Your Mind" w. Grant Clarke & Roy Turk m. George W. Meyer
"Memory Lane" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Larry Spier & Con Conrad
"The Mounties" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
"My Best Girl" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"My Dream Girl, I Loved You Long Ago" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
"My Time Is Your Time" w. Eric Little m. Leo Dance
"A New Kind Of Man With A New Kind Of Love For Me" w.m. Sidney Clare & Flatow
"Nobody's Sweetheart Now" w.m. Elmer Schoebel, Ernie Erdman, Gus Kahn & Billy Meyers
"O, Katharina" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Richard Fall
"Oh Lady Be Good" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Oh! Mabel" Gus Kahn, Ted Fio Rito
"Oh! Miss Hannah" w. Thekla Hollingsworth m. Jessie L. Deppen
"The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
"Parisian Pierrot" w.m. Noel Coward
"Prince Of Wails" m. Elmer Schoebel
"The Prisoner's Song" w.m. Guy Massey
"Red Hot Mama" w.m. Gilbert Wells, Bud Cooper & Fred Rose
"Rhapsody In Blue" m. George Gershwin
"Riverboat Shuffle" m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills
"Rose Marie" w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Rudolf Friml
"See See Rider" w.m. Ma Rainey
"Serenade from The Student Prince In Heidelberg" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
"Shanghai Shuffle" w.m. Larry Conley & Gene Rodemich
"Shine" w. Cecil Mack & Lew Brown m. Ford T. Dabney
"So Am I" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"Somebody Loves Me" w. Ballard MacDonald & B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
"South" m. Bennie Moten & Thamon Hayes
"Spain" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
"Stack O'Lee Blues" w.m. by Ray Lopez & Lew Colwell
"Sweet Little You" w.m. Irving Bibo
"Tea For Two" w. Irving Caesar m. Vincent Youmans
"Tell Her In The Springtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
"There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward
"There's Yes! Yes! In Your Eyes" w. Cliff Friend m. Joseph H. Santly
"Totem Tom-Tom" w. Oscar Hammerstein II & Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
"Two Little Babes In The Wood" w.m. Cole Porter
"Wait'll You See My Gal" Sullivan, Wilber
"What'll I Do?" w.m. Irving Berlin
"When My Sugar Walks Down The Street" w.m. Gene Austin, Jimmy McHugh & Irving Mills
"When You And I Were Seventeen" w. Gus Kahn m. Charles Rosoff
"Where The Lazy Daisies Grow" w.m. Cliff Friend
"Why Did I Kiss That Girl?" w. Lew Brown m. Robert A. King & Ray Henderson

Top hits on record

"Arkansaw Blues/Blue Blues" by the Mound City Blue Blowers
"The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart
"Rhapsody In Blue" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra with George Gershwin
"San" by Paul Whiteman & His Jazz Band
"San/Red Hot!" by the Mound City Blue Blowers & Frank Trumbauer
"Show Me The Way (To Go Home)" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
"What'll I Do?" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

Classical music

Jacques Ibert - Escales
Ottorino Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 2
Carl Ruggles - Men and Mountains
Erik Satie - Relâche (ballet)
Jean Sibelius - Symphony no. 7 in C major, opus 105
Edgar Varèse - Octandre

Opera

Leos Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen
Arnold Schoenberg - Die Gluckliche Hand

Musical theater

Gräfin Mariza (Countess Maritza) - Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on February 28 and ran for 396 performances
Lady, Be Good! (Cole Porter) - Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 1 and ran for 330 performances
Madame Pompadour Broadway production opened on November 11 at the Martin Beck Theatre and ran for 79 performances
No, No, Nanette (Irving Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans) - Chicago production. Pre-Broadway tryout started in April.
Primrose London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 11 and ran for 255 performances
Rose-Marie Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on September 2 and ran for 557 performances
The Student Prince In Heidelberg (Sigmund Romberg) - Broadway production

opened at the Al Jolson Theatre on December 2 and ran for 608 performances

Births

January 6 - Earl Scruggs
January 20 - Slim Whitman
April 3 - Doris Day, US actress and singer
April 3 - Murray Dickie, opera singer and director
April 16 - Henry Mancini
May 10 - Teddy Riley, Jazz trumpeter
May 22 - Charles Aznavour
June 20 - Chet Atkins
June 29 - Flo Sandon's, Italian singer
July 13 - Carlo Bergonzi, operatic tenor
July 22 - Margaret Whiting, US singer
August 14 - Lee Adams, US lyricist
August 20 - Jim Reeves
August 29 - Dinah Washington
September 12 - Ella Mae Morse, US singer
September 18 - Eugenie Baird
September 20 - Jackie Paris, US jazz singer
December 24 - Lee Dorsey

Deaths

February 15 - Lionel Monckton, English composer
June 11 - Théodore Dubois, composer
July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
November 4 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer
November 29 - Giacomo Puccini, composer