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Clarinetist George Lewis in 1950 was prominent in the revived popularity of traditional jazz.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1950.

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.^{[citation needed]}
Malcolm Sargent becomes chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.^[1]
Isaak Dunayevsky is named People's Artist of the USSR.
Mitch Miller signs as A&R man with Columbia Records.
Patti Page becomes the first (and only) artist to have a Number One record on the Pop, R&B and Country charts concurrently.
Al Cernick is signed to Columbia by Mitch Miller, who changes the singer's name to Guy Mitchell.
Columbia Records lures Jo Stafford away from Capitol.
Georgia Gibbs leaves the Majestic label and scores her first charting single with Coral.
Bandleader Les Baxter founds the school of "Outer Space" exotica.
Sam Cooke replaces R. H. Harris as lead singer of The Soul Stirrers.

Albums released

American Folk Songs – Jo Stafford
Auld Lang Syne – Bing Crosby
Autumn in New York – Jo Stafford
Barber Shop Ballads – The Mills Brothers
Bird & Diz – Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Blue of the Night – Bing Crosby
Capitol Collectors Series – Jo Stafford
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert – Benny Goodman
Charlie Parker with Strings – Charlie Parker
Christmas Greetings – Bing Crosby
Cole Porter Songs – Bing Crosby
Country Feelin – Dinah Shore
Drifting and Dreaming – Bing Crosby
Ella Sings Gershwin – Ella Fitzgerald
The Fat Man – Fats Domino
Frankie Laine (Ver 2) – Frankie Laine
Going My Way – Bing Crosby
Historical America in Song – Burl Ives
King Cole Trio – King Cole Trio
King Cole Trio Volume 2 – King Cole Trio
Live at Carnegie Hall – Benny Goodman
Oh! Susanna – Al Jolson
Porgy and Bess – Various Artists
Sing a Song of Christmas – The Ames Brothers
Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra – Frank Sinatra
Songs By Gershwin – Bing Crosby
Songs of Faith – Jo Stafford
Songs for Sunday Evening – Jo Stafford
Tea for Two – Doris Day
Two Loves Have I – Frankie Laine
Voice of the Xtabay – Yma Sumac
Young Man with a Horn – Doris Day

No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of Billboard magazine's charts in 1950.

First week	Number of weeks	Title	Artist
January 7, 1950	1	"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"	Gene Autry
January 14, 1950	4	"I Can Dream, Can't I?"	The Andrews Sisters
February 11, 1950	1	"Rag Mop"	The Ames Brothers
February 18, 1950	4	"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"	Red Foley
March 18, 1950	4	"Music! Music! Music!"	Teresa Brewer
April 15, 1950	2	"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake"	Eileen Barton
April 29, 1950	11	"The Third Man Theme"	Anton Karas
July 15, 1950	5	"Mona Lisa"	Nat King Cole
August 19, 1950	13	"Goodnight, Irene"	Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers
November 18, 1950	2	"Harbor Lights"	Sammy Kaye
December 2, 1950	4	"The Thing"	Phil Harris
December 30, 1950	9	"The Tennessee Waltz"	Patti Page

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1950.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Chart entries
1	Nat King Cole	Mona Lisa	1950	US 1940s 1 – Jun 1950, US 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1950, Oscar in 1950, US BB 2 of 1950, RYM 2 of 1950, POP 2 of 1950, DDD 4 of 1950, Italy 48 of 1951, RIAA 109, Acclaimed 1292
2	Patti Page	Tennessee Waltz	1950	US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 9 weeks Dec 1950, US BB 4 of 1950, DDD 5 of 1950, Global 7 (10 M sold) – 1950, POP 7 of 1950, RYM 77 of 1951, RIAA 198, Acclaimed 1447
3	Phil Harris	The Thing	1950	US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1950, Peel list 1 of 1950, US BB 12 of 1950, POP 12 of 1950, RYM 108 of 1950
4	Red Foley	Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	1950	US 1940s 1 – Jan 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1950, DDD 17 of 1950, US BB 18 of 1950, POP 25 of 1950, RYM 117 of 1950
5	Teresa Brewer	Music! Music! Music!	1950	US 1940s 1 – Feb 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Mar 1950, US BB 3 of 1950, POP 3 of 1950

Top hit records

"A-Razz-A-Ma-Tazz" – Georgia Gibbs
"All My Love (Bolero)" – Patti Page
"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" – Al Jolson
"Ballin' The Jack", recorded by
- Georgia Gibbs
- Danny Kaye
"Be My Love" – Mario Lanza
"Bewitched" – Doris Day
"Black Lace" – Frankie Laine
"Boo-Hoo" – Guy Lombardo & The Lombardo Trio
"A Bushel And A Peck" – Perry Como & Betty Hutton
"Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!)" – The Ames Brothers
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" – Red Foley
"Cry Of The Wild Goose" – Frankie Laine
"Daddy's Little Girl" – The Mills Brothers
"Dear, Dear, Dear" – Frankie Laine
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" – Frankie Laine
"A Dreamer's Holiday" – Buddy Clark & The Girlfriends
"Enjoy Yourself" – Guy Lombardo (Kenny Gardner & The Lombardo Trio vocals)
"Goodnight, Irene" – The Weavers sell four million copies
"Harbor Lights" – Sammy Kaye
"Here Comes Santa Claus" – Andrews Sisters
"L'Hymne à L'Amour (Hymn To Love)" – Édith Piaf
"I Can Dream, Can't I?" – The Andrews Sisters
"I Love You For That" – Patti Page & Frankie Laine
"I Wanna Be Loved" – The Andrews Sisters
"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" – Eileen Barton
"I'm Movin' On" – Hank Snow
"It Isn't Fair" – Sammy Kaye (Don Cornell vocal)
"Let's Go West Again" – Al Jolson
"A Man Gets Awfully Lonesome" – Frankie Laine
"Mona Lisa" – Nat King Cole
"Music, Maestro, Please" – Frankie Laine
"Music! Music! Music!" – Teresa Brewer
"My Foolish Heart, recorded by
- Billy Eckstine
- Gordon Jenkins
"My Heart Cries For You" – Guy Mitchell
"Nevertheless" – The Mills Brothers
"No Other Love" – Jo Stafford
"The Old Piano Roll Blues" Al Jolson & The Andrews Sisters
"Patricia" – Perry Como
"Peter Cottontail" – Gene Autry
"Play A Simple Melody" – Gary Crosby & Friend (Bing Crosby)
"Rag Mop" – The Ames Brothers
"Red Hot Mama" – Georgia Gibbs
"The Roving Kind" – Guy Mitchell
"Sentimental Me" – The Ames Brothers
"Sleepy Ol' River" – Frankie Laine
"Someday", recorded by
- The Mills Brothers
- Vaughn Monroe
"Sometime" – The Mariners
"Stars & Stripes Forever" – Frankie Laine
"Swingin' In A Hammock" – Guy Lombardo (Don Rodney & The Lombardo Trio vocals)
"The Tennessee Waltz" – Patti Page
"There's No Tomorrow" – Tony Martin
"The Thing" – Phil Harris
"Thinking of You" – Don Cherry
"The Third Man Theme", recorded by
- Anton Karas
- Guy Lombardo
"With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming" – Patti Page

Top R&B hits on record

"Double Crossin' Blues" – Little Payne

Published popular music

"Adelaide's Lament" w.m. Frank Loesser
"African Bolero" m. John Serry, Sr.
"American Beauty Rose" w.m. Hal David, Redd Evans & Arthur Altman
"Be My Love" w. Sammy Cahn m. Nicholas Brodszky
"The Best Thing For You" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Blind Date" w.m. Sid Robin
"A Bushel And A Peck" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Candy And Cake" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" w.m. Harry Stone & Jack Stapp
"Choo'n Gum" w. Mann Curtis m. Vic Mizzy
"Cold, Cold Heart" w.m. Hank Williams
"The Cry Of The Wild Goose" w.m. Terry Gilkyson
"Dearie" w.m. Bob Hilliard & David Mann
"Freight Train" w. Paul James & Fred Williams m. trad arr. Elizabeth Cotton
"The French Can-Can Polka" w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Jacques Offenbach
"From This Moment On" w.m. Cole Porter
"Frosty the Snowman" w.m. Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins
"Fugue For Tinhorns" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Get Out Those Old Records" w.m. Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb
"Gone Fishin'" w.m. Nick Kenny & Charles Kenny
"Guys and Dolls" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Home Cookin"' w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
"Hoop-Dee-Doo" w. Frank Loesser m. Milton De Lugg
"The Hostess With The Mostes' On The Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin. Introduced by Ethel Merman in the musical Call Me Madam
"I Almost Lost My Mind" w.m. Ivory Joe Hunter
"I Didn't Slip, I Wasn't Pushed, I Fell" w.m. Edward Pola & George Wyle
"I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" w.m. Mack David
"I Leave My Heart in an English Garden" w.m. Harry Parr-Davies and Christopher Hassall from the musical Dear Miss Phoebe
"I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat" w.m. Alan Livingston, Billy May & Warren Foster
"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake" w.m. Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill & Clem Watts
"If I Were A Bell" w.m. Frank Loesser
"I'll Know" w.m. Frank Loesser
"I'll Never Be Free" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
"I'm Movin' On" w.m. Hank Snow
"It Is No Secret" w.m. Stuart Hamblen
"It's A Lovely Day Today" w.m. Irving Berlin
"I've Never Been In Love Before" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Ivory Rag" Lou Busch, Jack Elliott
"La Culebra" m. John Serry, Sr.
"Little White Duck" w.m. Walt Barrows & Bernard Zaritsky
"The Loveliest Night Of The Year" w. Paul Francis Webster m. Juventino P. Rosas
"Luck Be a Lady" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Lucky Lucky Lucky Me" Berle, Arnold
"Marry The Man Today" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Marrying For Love" w.m. Irving Berlin
"More I Cannot Wish You" w.m. Frank Loesser
"My Heart Cries For You" w.m. Carl Sigman & Percy Faith
"My Time Of Day" w.m. Frank Loesser
"No Other Love" adapt from Chopin's Etude No 3 in E, Opus 10. w.m. Bob Russell & Paul Weston
"The Old Piano Roll Blues" w.m. Cy Coben
"The Oldest Established" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Orange Colored Sky" w.m. Milton De Lugg & William Stein
"Patricia" w.m. Benny Davis
"Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)" w.m. Stuart Hamblen
"The Roving Kind" adapt. w.m. Jessie Cavanaugh & Arnold Stanton
"Sam's Song" w. Jack Elliott m. Lew Quadling
"Shot Gun Boogie" w.m. Tennessee Ernie Ford
"Silver Bells" w.m. Jay Livingston & Ray Evans. Introduced by Bob Hope in the 1951 Musical film The Lemon Drop Kid.
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat" w.m. Frank Loesser. Introduced by Stubby Kaye in the musical Guys and Dolls.
"Sixty Minute Man" w.m. Billy Ward & Rose Marks
"Sleigh Ride" w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
"Sue Me" w.m. Frank Loesser
"The Syncopated Clock" w. Mitchell Parish m. Leroy Anderson
"Take Back Your Mink" w.m. Frank Loesser. Introduced by Vivian Blaine in the musical Guys and Dolls.
"The Thing" w.m. Charles R. Grean
"Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" adapt. trad Hebrew w. (Eng) Mitchell Parish m. Issachar Miron (Stefan Michrovsky) & Julius Grossman
"You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry" w.m. Bob Merrill & Terry Shand
"You're Just In Love" w.m. Irving Berlin

Classical music

Hendrik Andriessen – Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
Malcolm Arnold – English Dances for orchestra, op. 27
Alexander Arutiunian – Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Arno Babadjanian – Heroic Ballade
Ernest Bloch – Suite hébraïque
Karl-Birger Blomdahl – Symphony No. 3 Facetter
Pierre Boulez –
- Polyphonie X
- Le soleil des eaux, for soprano, chorus and orchestra (second version)
John Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts
Arnold Cooke – Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello
George Crumb – A Cycle of Greek Lyrics for voice and piano
Jesús Guridi – Cuarteto en la menor
Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Symphony No. 5 Symphonie Concertante
Hans Henkemans – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Ernst Krenek – Suite for String Trio Parvula Corona Musicalis
Bohuslav Martinů –
- Concerto No. 2 for two violins and orchestra
- Duo No. 2, for Violin and Viola
- Intermezzo for Large Orchestra
- Sinfonietta La Jolla, in A major, for piano and chamber orchestra
- Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, in D minor
Luigi Nono – Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell’op.41 di A. Schönberg, for chamber orchestra
Vincent Persichetti – Divertimento for Band
Allan Pettersson – First Concerto for Strings
Walter Piston – Symphony No.4
Arnold Schoenberg –
- Psalm 130 “De profundis”, op. 50b
- Modern Psalm, op. 50c (unfinished)
- Style and Idea (collection of essays and other works, translated by Dika Newlin)
Humphrey Searle – Poem for 22 Strings
John Serry, Sr. – Eight Accordion Quartet Arrangements
Karlheinz Stockhausen –
- Choral ("Wer uns trug mit Schmerzen in dies Leben"), for a cappella choir, Nr. 1/9 (1950)
- Chöre für Doris, for a cappella choir, Nr. ¹/₁₁ (1950)
- Drei Lieder, for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Nr. 1/10 (1950)

Opera

Luigi Dallapiccola – Il Prigionero (The Prisoner)
Norman Dello Joio – The Triumph of Saint Joan
Lukas Foss – The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (opera in two scenes, libretto by Jean Karsavina, premiered on May 18, 1950, at Indiana University)
Vittorio Giannini – The Taming of the Shrew
Gian-Carlo Menotti – The Consul

Musical theatre

Carousel (Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics and Book: Oscar Hammerstein II.) London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on June 7 and ran for 566 performances.
Dear Miss Phoebe London production opened at the Phoenix Theatre on October 13 and ran for 283 performances
Guys and Dolls (Music and Lyrics: Frank Loesser Book: Abe Burrows & Jo Swerling). Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on November 24 and ran for 1200 performances.
The Highwayman Music, Lyrics & Book: Edmond Samuels. Australian production opened at the Kings Theatre, Melbourne on November 18
Out Of This World Broadway production opened at the New Century Theatre on December 21 and ran for 157 performances.
Peter Pan Lyrics and Music: Leonard Bernstein. Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on April 24 and ran for 321 performances

Musical films

Dorothy Kirsten and Bing Crosby in "Mr. Music".

Annie Get Your Gun starring Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern and Keenan Wynn.
Bhai Bahen, starring Geeta Bali and Bharat Bhushan.
Cinderella, animated film featuring the voice of Ilene Woods and Verna Felton.
Come Dance with Me featuring Anne Shelton and Anton Karas
Fancy Pants starring Bob Hope and Lucille Ball
I'll Get By starring June Haver, Gloria DeHaven and Dennis Day, and featuring Harry James.
Mr Music starring Bing Crosby and featuring Peggy Lee, Groucho Marx and Dorothy Kirsten.
Pagan Love Song starring Esther Williams and Howard Keel
Singing Guns released February 28 starring Vaughn Monroe, Ella Raines, Walter Brennan and Ward Bond
There's a Girl in My Heart starring Lee Bowman, Elyse Knox, Gloria Jean and Peggy Ryan
Three Little Words starring Fred Astaire, Red Skelton and Vera Ellen, and featuring Helen Kane dubbing for Debbie Reynolds.
The Toast of New Orleans starring Kathryn Grayson and Mario Lanza
Two Weeks With Love starring Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Louis Calhern, Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter.
The West Point Story starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae

Births

July – August

July 5 – Huey Lewis, singer and songwriter
July 10 – Greg Kihn, rock musician, radio personality and novelist.
July 12 – Eric Carr (Kiss) (d. 1991)
July 14 – Gwen Guthrie, singer-songwriter (d. 1999)
July 18 – Glenn Hughes (The Village People) (d. 2001)
July 19 – Freddy Moore, singer-songwriter
July 23 – Blair Thornton (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
August 12 – Kid Creole, singer
August 13 – Pluto Shervington, reggae singer
August 18 – Dennis Elliott (Foreigner)
August 25 – Willy DeVille, singer and songwriter (d. 2009)

September – October

September 10 – Joe Perry, Aerosmith
September 14 – Paul Kossoff, guitarist (Free) (d. 1976)
September 17 – Fee Waybill (The Tubes)
October 1 – Elpida, singer
October 2 – Mike Rutherford, musician and songwriter (Genesis)
October 8 – Robert Kool Bell, singer (Kool and The Gang)
October 20 – Tom Petty, singer, guitarist

November – December

November 1 – Dan Peek (America)
November 11 – Jim Peterik (Ides of March, Survivor)
November 18 – Graham Parker, singer
November 21
- Marie Bergman, Eurovision singer
- Livingston Taylor, singer-songwriter
November 22
- Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
- Steven Van Zandt (aka "Little Steven", "Miami Steve") (E Street Band)
December 1 – Keith Thibodeaux, drummer and actor
December 5 – Camarón de la Isla, flamenco singer
December 6 – Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer and director
December 8 – Dan Hartman, singer-songwriter (d. 1994)
December 9 – Joan Armatrading, singer-songwriter
December 20 – Arturo Márquez, composer
December 28 – Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star) (d. 2010)

Deaths

January 28 – Kansas Joe McCoy, blues musician and songwriter (born 1905)
February 10 – Armen Tigranian, Armenian composer (born 1879)
February 26 – Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
February 28 – Ernst Abert Couturier, cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer (born 1869)
March – Kate Carney, English singer and comedian (born 1869)
March 8 – Jaroslav Kocián, violinist, composer and teacher (born 1883)
April 2 - Adolf Wiklund, Swedish composer (born 1879)
April 3 – Kurt Weill, composer in many styles (born 1900)
April 8 – Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer
April 23 – Gemma Bellincioni, operatic soprano (born 1864)
May 7 – Bertha "Chippie" Hill, blues singer and vaudeville performer (born 1905)
May 13 – Pauline de Ahna, operatic soprano (born 1863)
June 9 – Joe Burke, pianist and composer (born 1884)
June 26 – Antonina Nezhdanova, coloratura soprano (born 1873)
July 1 – Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, developer of eurhythmics
July 7 – Fats Navarro, jazz musician (born 1923)
July 11 – Buddy DeSylva, songwriter (born 1895)
July 21 – Al Hoffman, songwriter
July 26 – Papa Charlie McCoy, blues musician
July 30 – Guilhermina Suggia, cellist
August 3 – Georg Høeberg, composer and conductor (born 1872)
August 8 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Soviet composer and teacher of Polish birth (born 1881)
August 26 – Giuseppe De Luca, operatic baritone
September 5 – Al Killian, trumpeter and bandleader (born 1916)
October 11 – Emil Votoček, chemist, composer and music theorist (born 1862)
October 15 – Clément Doucet, pianist
October 23 – Al Jolson, singer and actor
October 26 - Evelyn Suart, English pianist (born 1881)
November 20 – Francesco Cilea, opera composer (born 1866)
November 23 - Percival Mackey, English pianist, composer and bandleader (born 1894)
December 2 - Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist and composer (born 1917; Hodgkin's disease)^[2])
December 9 – Georg Hann, operatic bass-baritone (born 1897)
December 26 – Ben Black, songwriter and impresario (born 1889)
December 31 – Charles Koechlin, composer and teacher (born 1867)
date unknown
- Jaime de Angulo, ethnomusicologist (born 1887)
- Auguste Aramini, French singer (born 1875)
- Edouard Espinosa, dancer, choreographer and teacher
- Cenobio Hernandez, composer (b. 1863)
- Georges Mager, trumpet player (b. 1885)
- Ray Perry, jazz musician (b. 1915)

Notes

↑ Ronald Crichton, "Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
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