1929 in music
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See also: 1928 in music, other events of 1929, 1930 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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[edit] Events
- May 3 - Francis Poulenc's Concert champêtre for harpsichord and orchestra is premiered in Paris
- May 17 - Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3 is premiered in Paris
- December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time
- Charley Patton's musical career begins
- T-Bone Walker's recording career begins
- Memphis Minnie's recording career begins
- Amédé Ardoin makes the first recordings of zydeco in Louisiana.
- Manuel de Falla relocates to Granada.
[edit] Top blues records
- "That Crawling Baby Blues" - Blind Lemon Jefferson
- "Travelin' Blues" - Blind Willie McTell
- "Christmas In Jail" - Leroy Carr
- "Hot Fingers" - Lonnie Johnson
- "High Water Everywhere" - Charley Patton
[edit] Published popular music
- "Adios Muchachos" Raven, Cesar Vedani m. Julio Sanders
- "Ain't Misbehavin'" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks
- "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst
- "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers
- "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel
- "The Banjo (That Man Joe Plays)" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" w.m. Carson Robison & Frank Luther
- "Big City Blues" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad
- "Bilbao Song" w. (Eng) Johnny Mercer w. (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill English lyrics 1961
- "Black And Blue" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
- "Bolero" m. Maurice Ravel
- "Broadway Melody" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Can Broadway Do Without Me?" w.m. Jimmy Durante
- "Can't We Be Friends?" w. Paul James m. Kay Swift
- "Chant Of The Jungle" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Corrine, Corrina" w. J. Mayo Williams & Bo Chatman
- "Cross Your Fingers" w. Arthur Swanstrom & Benny Davis m. J. Fred Coots
- "Cryin' For The Carolines" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
- "Daddy Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Sam Coslow
- "Dear Little Cafe" w.m. Noel Coward
- "Deep Night" w. Rudy Vallee m. Charlie Henderson
- "Do Something" w. Bud Green m. Sam H. Stept
- "Do What You Do" w. Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn m. George Gershwin
- "Don't Ever Leave Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
- "Dream Lover" w. Clifford Grey m. Victor Schertzinger
- "Every Little Moment" w.m. Vivian Ellis
- "Feeling Sentimental" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
- "Find Me A Primitive Man" w.m. Cole Porter
- "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 m. Don Redman
- "Great Day!" w. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans
- "Happy Days Are Here Again" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
- "Have A Little Faith In Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren
- "Here Am I" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
- "He's A Good Man To Have Around" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
- "High And Low" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
- "Honeysuckle Rose" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
- "How Am I To Know?" w. Dorothy Parker m. Jack King
- "I Got A Code In My Dose" w.m. Arthur Fields, Fred Hall & Billy Rose
- "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
- "I Have To Have You" Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting
- "I Lift Up My Finger" w.m. Leslie Sarony
- "I May Be Wrong" w. Harry Ruskin m. Henry Sullivan
- "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 m. Ray Henderson
- "If Love Were All" w.m. Noel Coward
- "I'll See You Again" w.m. Noel Coward
- "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
- "I'm A Gigolo" w.m. Cole Porter
- "I'm In Seventh Heaven" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
- "I'm Just A Vagabond Lover" w.m. Rudy Vallee & Leon Zimmerman
- "I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling" w. Billy Rose m. Fats Waller & Harry Link
- "Kansas City Kitty" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
- "Keepin' Myself For You" w. Sidney Clare m. Vincent Youmans
- "Let Me Sing And I'm Happy" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Little By Little" w.m. Walter O'Keefe & Robert Emmet Dolan
- "The Little Things You Do" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "Liza" w. Gus Kahn & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
- "Looking At You" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Louise" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting
- "Lovable And Sweet" w. Sidney Clare m. Oscar Levant
- "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 in the film The Love Parade
- "Maybe Who Knows" John Tucker, Joe Schuster, Ruth Etting
- "Mean To Me" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
- "The Minor Drag" m. Thomas "Fats" Waller
- "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
- "More Than You Know" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans
- "My Ideal" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase
- "My Kinda Love" w. Jo Trent m. Louis Alter
- "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 m. Ray Henderson
- "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
- "Puttin' on the Ritz" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Raisin' the Roof" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
- "Reaching For Someone" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
- "Rockin' Chair" w.m. Hoagy Carmichael
- "Romance" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
- "Satisfied!" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
- "Serenade of Love" by Irving Caesar
- "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 m. Walter Donaldson
- "A Ship Without A Sail" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "Should I?" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Siboney" w. Dolly Morse m. Ernesto Lecuona
- "Singin' In the Bathtub" w.m. Herb Magidson, Ned Washington & Michael H. Cleary
- "Singin' in the Rain" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "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" w. Mitchell Parish m. Hoagy Carmichael Music 1927.
- "Sunny Side Up" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
- "Thank Your Father" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
- "Then You've Never Been Blue" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Ted Fiorito
- "Thinking Of You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
- "True Blue Lou" w.m. Sam Coslow, Leo Robin & Richard A. Whiting
- "Wait 'Til You See Ma Cherie" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting
- "Waiting At The End Of The Road" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Wake Up And Dream" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Walk Right In" Cannon, Woods, Darling, Suanoe
- "Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine" w. Irving Kahal & Willie Raskin m. Sammy Fain
- "The Wedding Of The Painted Doll" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?" w.m. Cole Porter
- "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 m. Richard Rodgers
- "Why Do You Suppose?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "Why Was I Born?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
- "With A Song in My Heart" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "Without A Song" w. Edward Eliscu & Billy Rose m. Vincent Youmans
- "You Do Something To Me" w.m. Cole Porter. Introduced by William Gaxton in the musical Fifty Million Frenchmen
- "You Were Meant For Me" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
- "Yours Sincerely" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
- "You've Got That Thing" w.m. Cole Porter
- "Zigeuner" w.m. Noël Coward
[edit] Classical music
- Samuel Barber - Serenade [for quartet or string orchestra]
- Béla Bartók - Piano Concerto No. 1
- Arnold Bax - Symphony No. 3
- Henry Cowell - Piano Concerto
- Pierre-Octave Ferroud - Violin Sonata
- Paul Juon - Litaniae for Piano, Violin and Cello in C sharp minor
- Wilhelm Kempff - Symphony No. 2
- Ildebrando Pizzetti - Rondo Veneziano
- Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 3 E flat major, Op. 20
- William Walton - Viola Concerto
[edit] Opera
[edit] Musical theater
- Bitter Sweet (Noel Coward) - London and Broadway productions
- Boom Boom Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 28 and ran for 72 performances
- Die Dreigroschenoper Vienna production
- Fifty Million Frenchmen Broadway production
- Follow Thru Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 9 and ran for 401 performances
- Follow Through London production opened at the Dominion Theatre on October 3 and ran for 148 performances
- Hold Everything London production
- Hot Chocolates Broadway production
- Das Land Des Lächelns (Franz Lehár) - Berlin production
- The Little Show Broadway production
- Mr Cinders London production
- Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) - Paris production
- Spring Is Here Broadway production
- Toad of Toad Hall London production
- Top Speed 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 London and Broadway productions
[edit] Musical films
- The Broadway Melody
- The Cocoanuts
- The Desert Song
- The Glad Rag Doll
- Glorifying the American Girl
- Gold Diggers of Broadway
- Hollywood Revue Of 1929
- Honky Tonk
- The Love Parade
- On with the Show! starring Arthur Lake, Betty Compson and Joe E. Brown, and featuring Ethel Waters
- Paris released November 7 starring Irène Bordoni, Jack Buchanan and Zasu Pitts.
- Rio Rita
- Sally
- Show Boat
- So Long Letty starring Charlotte Greenwood
- Sunny Side Up
[edit] Recorded popular music
- "Am I Blue?" by Ethel Waters
- "Button Up Your Overcoat" by Helen Kane
- "Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho" by Rudy Vallee
- "I Want To Be Bad" by Annette Hanshaw
- "I'll Get By, As Long As I Have You" by Aileen Stanley
- "I'm The Medicine Man For The Blues" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
- "If I Had A Talking Picture of You" by Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders
- "Louise" by Maurice Chevalier
- "Louise/So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds Got Together" by Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys, featuring Bing Crosby
- "Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
- "Maybe, Who Knows?" by Kate Smith
- "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith
- "Piccolo Pete" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra
- "Singin' in the Rain" by Cliff Edwards
- "Stardust" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
- "What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue?" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- "You'll Do It Someday, So Why Not Now?" by Rudy Vallee
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer and conductor
- January 6 - Wilbert Harrison
- January 28 - Mr Acker Bilk
- February 10 - Jerry Goldsmith, US composer for film and television
- March 4 - Bernard Haitink
- April 6 - André Previn
- April 29 - Peter Sculthorpe, composer
- May 1 - Sonny James
- May 3 - Denise Lor
- May 25 - Beverly Sills
- July 3 - Pedro Iturralde, composer
- June 9 - Johnny Ace
- June 23 - June Carter Cash
- July 9 - Lee Hazlewood
- July 18 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- August 12 - Buck Owens
- August 24 - William Winfield, The Harptones
- September 13 - Nicolai Ghiaurov, operatic bass
- October 2 - Kenneth Leighton, composer
- October 26 - Neal Matthews The Jordanaires
- November 10 - Marilyn Bergman, US songwriter
- November 11 - LaVern Baker
- November 24 - Eileen Barton, American singer
- November 28 - Berry Gordy Jr., record producer
- November 30 - Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand
- December 6 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
- December 25 - Billy Horton, The Silhouettes
- December 25 - Chris Kenner
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Elfrida Andrée, organist, composer and conductor
- January 24 - Jacques Bouhy, operatic baritone
- January 30 - La Goulue, can-can dancer
- February 24 - André Messager, conductor and composer
- March 15 - Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist
- April 15 - Antonio Smareglia, opera composer
- May 17 - Lilli Lehmann, operatic soprano
- June 2 - Don Murray, jazz clarinettist
- June 4 - Harry Frazee, producer of Broadway musicals
- July 3 - Dustin Farnum, singer, dancer and actor
- August 3 - Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
- August 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, ballet impresario
- September 4 - Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudeville impresario
- October 17 - Ada Crossley, singer
- October 27 - A. M. Willner, composer and librettist
- December - Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician
- date unknown
- Henri Berger, composer and royal bandmaster of Hawaii
- Adolph Brodsky, violinist
- Antonio Chacón, flamenco singer
- Frederick Weatherly, songwriter