1918 in music

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See also: 1917 in music, other events of 1918, 1919 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top hit recordings
4 Classical music
5
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7 Births
8 Deaths

Events

March 3 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest
May 24 - Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.
Toivo Kuula is killed in the Finnish Civil War.
First documented racially integrated jazz recording session.
Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year

Published popular music

"After You've Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"Bagdad" w.Harold Atteridge m.Al Jolson
"Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
"Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"Dallas Blues" w. Hart A. Wand m. Lloyd Garrett
"Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
"Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
"The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson
"Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest Ball
"Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
"Ding Dong" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
"Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
"Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
"Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!" w.m. Robert Lloyd
"Good-bye, France" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
"Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by Edward Rowland
"How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
"I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy
"I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks
"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" w. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer
"I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson
"In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
"Ja-Da w.m. Bob Carleton
"K-K-K-Katy" w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
"Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
"Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
"Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
"My Baby Boy" w. Will Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Pete Wendling
"Oh! Frenchy!" w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
"Oh! How I Hate To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin
"On The Road To Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
"Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. Joe Jordan (musician), Nick LaRocca & J. Russell Robinson
"Oui Oui Marie" w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"The Rose Of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddingan m. Joseph A. Brennan
"Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
"Somebody Stole My Gal" w.m. Leo Wood
"Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
"Tell That To The Marines" w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz
"That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
"That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
"There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
"They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Those Draftin' Blues" w.m. Maceo Pinkard
"Till We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
"Tishomigo Blues" Spencer Williams
"Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
"When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
"When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
"Without You" w. Nora Bayes m. Irving Fisher
"Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
"You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Gus Kahn & Egbert van Alstyne

Top hit recordings

"Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
"Over There" by Enrico Caruso
"After You've Gone" by Marion Harris
"Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
"Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr

Classical music

Frederick Delius - A Song Before Sunrise
Alexander Glazunov - Romance of Nina
Augustin Barrios Mangoré - Un sueño en la foresta
Karol Szymanowski - Songs of the Muezzin the Mad

Charles Wakefield Cadman - Shanewis
Giacomo Puccini - Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
Gabriel von Wayditch - Jesus Before Herod

As You Were London production
The Better 'Ole Broadway production
Buzz-Buzz London production
The Canary Broadway production
The Girl Behind The Gun Broadway production
Hullo, America London production
The Lilac Domino London production
Oh, Lady! Lady! Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on February 1, transferred to the Casino Theatre on June 17 and ran for a total of 219 performances.
Phi-Phi Paris production
Sinbad Broadway production

Births

January 27 - Skitch Henderson, bandleader
January 27 - Elmore James, blues musician
February 15 - Hank Locklin, singer
March 23 - Alberto Caracciolo, tango musician
March 29 - Pearl Bailey, singer
April 3 - Sixten Ehrling, conductor
April 6 - Big Walter Horton, blues musician
May 15 - Eddy Arnold
May 17 - Birgit Nilsson, soprano
June 8 - Robert Preston, star of musicals
July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci, violinist
July 27 - Leonard Rose, cellist
August 18 - Cisco Houston, folk singer
August 25 - Leonard Bernstein
August 31 - Alan Jay Lerner, US lyricist
September 13 - Dick Haymes, singer
September 22 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist
September 23 - Lola Graham, pianist
September 26 - John Zacherle
October 11 - Jerome Robbins, choreographer
October 17 - Rita Hayworth, actress, dancer and singer
December 19 - Professor Longhair
December 23 - José Greco, flamenco dancer and choreographer

Deaths

March 15 - Lili Boulanger, composer
March 25 - Claude Debussy, composer
May 5 - Bertha Palmer, writer and musician
June 10 - Arrigo Boito, composer
August 12 - Anna Held, singer
August 26 - Cecil Coles, composer
October 7 - Hubert Parry, composer
October 16 - Felix Arndt, pianist & tunewriter

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