Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 January:   FULGENCIO AQUINO = Venezuelan harpist and composer = [died: 1994]
• 6 January:   BOB COPPER = English folk singer = [died: 2004]
• 25 January:   EWAN MacCOLL = British folk singer and songwriter = [died: 1989]
• 27 January:   JACK BRYMER = English clarinettist = [died: 2003]
• 29 January:   JOHN SERRY, Sr. = American concert accordionist, composer & arranger = [died: 2003]
• 30 January:   DOROTHY DELL = American actress and singer = [died: 1934]
• 4 February:   RAY EVANS = American songwriter = [died: 2007]
• 10 March:   Sir CHARLES GROVES = English conductor = [died: 1992]
• 20 March:
• SISTER ROSETTA THARPE = American gospel singer = [died: 1973]
• SVIATOSLAV RICHTER = Soviet pianist = [died: 1997]
• 25 March:   DOROTHY SQUIRES = Welsh singer = [died: 1998]
• 28 March:   JAY LIVINGSTON = American songwriter = [died: 2001]
• 29 March:   GEORGE CHISHOLM = Scottish jazz trombonist and comedian = [died: 1997]
• 7 April:   BILLIE HOLIDAY = African-American blues singer = [died: 1959]
• 12 April:   HOUND DOG TAYLOR = American Chicago blues musician = [died: 1975]
• 29 April:   DONALD MILLS = American singer of the Mills Brothers = [died: 1999]
• 5 May:   ALICE FAYE = American actress and singer = [died: 1998]
• 8 May:   NAN WYNN = American singer = [died: 1971]
• 25 May:   GINNY SIMMS = American singer = [died: 1994]
• 27 May:   MIDGE WILLIAMS = African-American swing and jazz vocalist = [died: 1952]
• 1 June:   BART HOWARD = American composer and pianist = [died: 2004]
• 9 June:   LES PAUL = American musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar = [died: 2009]
• 12 June:   PRISCILLA LANE = American singer and actress = [died: 1995]
• 17 June:   DAVID "STRINGBEAN" AKEMAN = American country musician = [died: 1973]
• 18 June:   VIC LEGLEY = Dutch composer = [died: 1994]
• 28 June:   DAVID HONEYBOY EDWARDS = American blues musician = [died: 2011]
• 9 July:   DAVID DIAMOND = American classical composer = [died: 2005]
• 23 July:   EMMETT BERRY = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1993]
• 28 July:   FRANKIE YANKOVIC = American polka musician = [died: 1998]
• 31 July:   GEORGE FORREST = American musical theatre writer = [died: 1999]
• 6 August:   JACQUES ABRAM = American pianist = [died: 1998]
• 24 August:   WYNONIE HARRIS = American singer = [died: 1969]
• 26 August:   HUMPHREY SEARLE = English composer = [died: 1982]
• 3 September:   MEMPHIS SLIM = American blues musician = [died: 1988]
• 5 September:   FLORENCIO MORALES RAMOS = Puerto Rican singer, trovador and composer = [died: 1989]
• 12 September:   BILLY DANIELS = American singer = [died: 1988]
• 23 September:   JULIUS BAKER = American flautist = [died: 2003]
• 24 September:   ETTORE GRACIS = Italian conductor = [died: 1992]
• 10 October:   SWEETS EDISON = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1999]
• 31 October:   JANE JARVIS = American jazz pianist and composer = [died: 2010]
• 9 November:   HANKA BIELICKA = Polish singer and actress = [died: 2006]
• 14 November:   BILLY BAUER = American jazz guitarist = [died: 2005]
• 30 November:   BROWNIE McGHEE = American folk-blues singer and guitarist [died: 1996]
• 12 December:   FRANK SINATRA = American singer and actor = [died: 1998]
• 16 December:   GEORGY SVIRIDOV = Russian/Soviet composer = [died: 1998]
• 19 December:   ÉDITH PIAF = French singer = [died: 1963]
• 25 December:   PETE RUGOLO = Italian-born American pianist and bandleader = [died: 2011]

Timeline of Musical Events

• Sometime in 1915:-
• TOM BROWN's band from New Orleans goes to Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band"
• HERBERT HOWELLS is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).
• The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Published Popular Music

• "Alabama Jubilee" = lyrics & music by JACK YELLEN & GEORGE L. COBB
• "All For You" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" = lyrics by JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
• "America, I Love You" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE; music by ARCHIE GOTTLER
• "Araby" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Are You From Dixie?" = lyrics & music by JACK YELLEN & GEORGE L. COBB
• "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" = by ROONEY, EMMETT
• "The Army Of Today's All Right" = lyrics & music by KENNETH LYLE & FRED W. LEIGH
• "Auf Wiedersehen" from the musical 'The Blue Paradise' = lyrics by HERBERT REYNOLDS; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG
• "Babes In The Wood" = lyrics by SCHUYLER GREENE & JEROME KERN; music by JEROME KERN
• "Baby Shoes" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN & ED ROSE; music by AL PIANTADOSI
• "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" = lyrics & music by GRANT CLARKE, JOSEPH MCCARTHY & JAMES V. MONACO
• "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" = lyrics & music by MARK SHERIDAN
• "Blame It On The Blues" = by COOKE
• "Canadian Capers" = lyrics by EARL BURNETT; music by GUS CHANDLER, BERT WHITE & HENRY COHAN
• "Close To My Heart" = by A.B. STERLING
• "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" = by BRYAN, VON TILZER
• "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You" = lyrics by THOMAS HOIER; music by JAMES MORGAN
• "Down In Bom-Bombay" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by HARRY CARROLL
• "Everything In America Is Ragtime" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Fascination" = lyrics & music by HAROLD ATTERIDGE & SIGMUND ROMBERG
• "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" = by GAY, BROWN
• "Georgia Grind" = lyrics & music by SPENCER WILLIAMS
• "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Hello Frisco!" = lyrics by GENE BUCK; music by LOUIS A. HIRSCH
• "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR & EDGAR LESLIE; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "The Hesitating Blues" = lyrics & music by W. C. HANDY
• "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" = lyrics & music by CLARENCE WILLIAMS & ARMAND J. PIRON
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by AL PIANTADOSI
• "I Love A Piano" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" = by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT
• "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" = by HERMANN DAREWSKI
• "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" = lyrics by JOE MCCARTHY; music by JAMES V. MONACO
• "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME & E. RAY GOETZ; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "In A Monastery Garden" = music by ALBERT WILLIAM KETÈLBEY
• "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" = lyrics by FISKE O'HARA & J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
• "It's Tulip Time In Holland" = lyrics by DAVE RADFORD; music by RICHARD A. WHITING
• "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by JOE COOPER
• "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" = by IRVING BERLIN
• "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by WALTER DONALDSON
• "The Ladder Of Roses" = lyrics by R. H. BURNSIDE; music by RAYMOND HUBBELL
• "The Little House Upon The Hill" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD & JOE GOODWIN; music by HARRY PUCK
• "Love Is The Best Of All" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Love, Here Is My Heart" = lyrics by ADRIAN ROSS; music by LÃU SILÉSU
• "The Magic Melody" = lyrics by SCHUYLER GREENE; music by JEROME KERN
• "Memories" = lyrics by GUSTAVE KAHN; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
• "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" = lyrics by FRANK WOOD; music by HENRY E. PETHER
• "M-O-T-H-E-R" = lyrics by HOWARD JOHNSON; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
• "My Little Girl" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & WILLIAM DILLON; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
• "My Mother's Rosary" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "My Sweet Adair" = lyrics & music by L. WOLFE GILBERT & ANATOLE FRIEDLAND
• "Neapolitan Love Song" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM Jr; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Nola" = music by FELIX ARNDT
• "Norway" = by JOE McCARTHY
• "On The Beach At Waikiki" = lyrics by G. H. STOVER; music by HENRY KAILIMAI
• "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" = lyrics by GEORGE ASAF; music by FELIX POWELL
• "Paper Doll" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY S. BLACK
• "The Perfect Song" = lyrics by CLARENCE LUCAS; music by JOSEPH CARL BREIL
• "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" = lyrics & music by ELSA MAXWELL
• "Ragging The Scale" = lyrics by DAVE RINGLE; music by EDWARD B. CLAYPOLE
• "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" from the revue 'A World of Pleasure' = lyrics by HAROLD J. ATTERIDGE; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG
• "Railroad Jim" = by NAT H. VINCENT
• "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" = lyrics by JEFF T. BRANEN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
• "Siam" = lyrics by HOWARD JOHNSON; music by FRED FISHER
• "So Long Letty" = by EARL CARROLL
• "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" introduced by ROY ATWELL in the musical 'Alone at Last' = lyrics by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT & ROY ATWELL; music by SILVIO HEIN
• "Some Sort Of Somebody" = lyrics by ELSIE JANIS; music by JEROME KERN
• "Song Of The Islands" = lyrics & music by CHARLES E. KING
• "That Hula Hula" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" = by JACK FOLEY
• "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" = lyrics by HOWARD JOHNSON; music by FRED FISHER
• "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "Underneath The Stars" = lyrics by FLETA JAN BROWN; music by HERBERT SPENCER
• "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" = lyrics by COLEMAN GOETZ; music by WALTER DONALDSON
• "When I Get Back To The USA" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "When I Leave The World Behind" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" = lyrics & music by CHARLES McCARRON & NAT VINCENT
• "When You're In Love With Someone" = lyrics & music by GRANT CLARKE & AL PIANTADOSI
• "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" = by DAVID, BARNETT & DAREWSKI
• "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" = by SHELTON BROOKS
• "You Know And I Know" = lyrics by SCHUYLER GREENE; music by JEROME KERN
• "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER

Hit Recordings

• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny"
• recorded by ALMA GLUCK
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary"
• recorded by JOHN McCORMACK
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier"
• recorded by MORTON HARVEY

Classical Music

• CLAUDE DEBUSSY
• En blanc et noir
• JESÚS GURIDI
• Así cantan los chicos
• FEDERICO MOMPOU
• L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)
• MAX REGER
• String Trio No. 2 in D minor Op. 141b
• HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
• String Quartets 1 & 2

Opera

• UMBERTO GIORDANO
• Madame Sans-Gene
• SCOTT JOPLIN
• Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

Musical Theatre

• ALONE AT LAST
• Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
• BETTY
• London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
• BRIC-A-BRAC
• London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18.
• 5064 GERRARD
• London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on March 19.
• HIP-HIP-HOORAY
• Broadway revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
• MAID IN AMERICA
• Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
• THE BLUE PARADISE
• Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
• THE ONLY GIRL
• London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
• THE PASSING SHOW OF 1915
• Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
• SHELL OUT
• London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
• STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
• Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
• TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
• London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
• VERY GOOD EDDIE
• Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
• A WORLD OF PLEASURE
• Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
• ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1915
• Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 21 and ran for 104 performances