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Births

12 January: MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI = Indian musician, a major influence on The Beatles = [died: 2008]
20 January: JUAN GARCÍA ESQUIVEL = Mexican bandleader = [died: 2002]
24 January: GOTTFRIED VON EINEM = Austrian composer = [died: 1996]
27 January:

SKITCH HENDERSON = American bandleader = [died: 2005]
ELMORE JAMES = American blues musician = [died: 1963]

3 February: JOEY BISHOP = American all-round entertainer = [died: 2007]
15 February: HANK LOCKLIN = American singer = [died: 2009]
16 February: PATTY ANDREWS = American of The Andrews Sisters singing group = [died: 2013]
20 March: MARIAN McPARTLAND = English-American jazz pianist, composer and writer = [died: 2013]
23 March: ALBERTO CARACCIOLO = Argentine tango musician, a musical arranger, orchestra director, composer and bandoneón player = [died: 1994]
29 March: PEARL BAILEY = American actress and singer = [died: 1990]
3 April: SIXTEN EHRLING = Swedish conductor = [died: 2005]
15 May: EDDY ARNOLD = American country singer = [died: 2008]
17 May: BIRGIT NILSSON = Swedish operatic soprano = [died: 2005]
4 June: NOEL ESTRADA = Puerto Rican composer = [died: 1979]
8 June: ROBERT PRESTON = American star of musicals = [died: 1987]
10 June: HENRIETTE RAGON bka PATACHOU = French singer = [died: 2015]
26 June: ROGER VOISIN = French-born American classical trumpeter = [died: 2008]
5 July: GEORGE ROCHBERG = American composer = [died: 2005]
6 July: EUGENE LIST = American classical pianist = [died: 1985]
24 July: RUGGIERO RICCI = American violinist = [died: 2012]
27 July: LEONARD ROSE = American cellist = [died: 1984]
18 August: CISCO HOUSTON = American folk singer = [died: 1961]
25 August: LEONARD BERNSTEIN = American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist = [died: 1990]
31 August: ALAN JAY LERNER = American lyricist = [died: 1986]
22 September: HENRYK SZERYNG = Polish violinist = [died: 1988]
23 September: LOLA GRAHAM = Australian pianist = [died: 1992]
26 September: JOHN ZACHERLE = American actor and singer = [died: 2016]
11 October: JEROME ROBBINS = American choreographer = [died: 1998]
17 October: RITA HAYWORTH = American actress, dancer and singer = [died: 1987]
20 November: TIBOR FREŠO = Slovak composer = [died: 1987]
12 December: JOE WILLIAMS = American jazz singer = [died: 1999]
19 December: PROFESSOR LONGHAIR = American blues singer and pianist = [died: 1980]
23 December: JOSÉ GRECO = Italian flamenco dancer and choreographer = [died: 2000]
24 December: DAVE BARTHOLOMEW = African-American bandleader, composer and arranger

Timeline of Musical Events

3 March: BÉLA BARTÓK's String Quartet No. 2 is premiered in Budapest
30 April/1 May: TOIVO KUULA is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War.
24 May: BÉLA BARTÓK's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.
15 November: ROSA PONSELLE makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite ENRICO CARUSO.

Also in 1918:-

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS is appointed Director of Music, First Army.
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" = lyrics by HENRY CREAMER; music by TURNER LAYTON
"At The Jazz Band Ball" = lyrics & music by EDWIN B. EDWARDS, NICK LaROCCA, TONY SPARGO & LARRY SHIELDS
"Bagdad" = lyrics by HAROLD ATTERIDGE; music by AL JOLSON
"Beautiful Ohio" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by MARY EARL
"Clarinet Marmalade" = music by EDWIN B. EDWARDS, NICK LaROCCA, TONY SPARGO & LARRY SHIELDS
"Dallas Blues" = lyrics by LLOYD GARRETT; music by HART A. WAND
"Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" = lyrics by WILL J. HART; music by ED. NELSON
"Dark Grows The Sky" = lyrics by HARRY GRAHAM; music by HAROLD FRASER-SIMSON
"The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" = lyrics by MONTY C. BRICE; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Dear Little Boy Of Mine" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"Dear Old Pal Of Mine" = lyrics by HAROLD ROBE; music by Lt. GITZ RICE
"Ding Dong" = lyrics & music by 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" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by MILTON AGER
"Fidgety Feet" = music by EDWIN B. EDWARDS, NICK LA ROCCA, TONY SPARGO & LARRY SHIELDS
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" = lyrics & music by EDDIE GREEN
"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!" = lyrics & music by ROBERT LLOYD
"Good-bye, France" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Hindustan" = lyrics & music by 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" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"I Found The End Of The Rainbow" = lyrics & music by JOHN MEARS, HARRY TIERNEY & JOSEPH McCARTHY
"I Want To Shimmy" = by SHELTON BROOKS
"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE & HOWARD JOHNSON; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"I'll Say She Does" = lyrics & music by B. G. DeSYLVA, GUS KAHN & AL JOLSON
"In The Land Of Beginning Again" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"Ja-Da" = lyrics & music by BOB CARLETON
"K-K-K-Katy" = lyrics & music by GEOFFREY O'HARA
"Madelon" = Englsh lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN, French lyrics by LOUIS BOUSQUET; music by CAMILLE ROBERT
"Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" = lyrics by SIDNEY MITCHELL; music by ARCHIE GOTTLER
"Me-Ow!" = by MEL B. KAUFMAN
"Mickey" = lyrics by HAROLD H. WILLIAMS; music by NEIL MORET
"My Baby Boy" = lyrics by WILL DILLON; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by PETE WENDLING
"Oh! Frenchy!" = lyrics by SAM EHRLICH; music by CON CONRAD
"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"On The Road To Calais" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by AL JOLSON
"Original Dixieland One-Step" = lyrics & music by JOE JORDAN (musician), NICK LaROCCA & J. RUSSELL ROBINSON
"Oui Oui Marie" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN & JOSEPH McCARTHY; music by FRED FISHER
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"The Rose Of No Man's Land" = lyrics by JACK CADDIGAN; music by JAMES A. BRENNAN
"Russian Rag" = music by GEORGE L. COBB
"Somebody Stole My Gal" = lyrics & music by LEO WOOD
"Sometime" = by RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG
"Tell That To The Marines" = lyrics by HAROLD ATTERIDGE & AL JOLSON; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" = lyrics by RICHARD W. PASCOE; music by MONTE COBB & ALMA M. SAUNDERS
"That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" = lyrics by CLYDE HAGER; music by WALTER GOODWIN
"There's Nobody Home but Me" = lyrics by SAM ERLICH; music by CON CONRAD
"They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Those Draftin' Blues" = lyrics & music by MACEO PINKARD
"Till We Meet Again" = lyrics by RAYMOND B. EGAN; music by RICHARD A. WHITING
"Tishomingo Blues" = by SPENCER WILLIAMS
"Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" = lyrics by LEW BROWN & AL HERRIMAN; music by JACK EGAN
"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN & EDGAR LESLIE; music by CLIFF HESS
"When Tony Goes Over The Top" = lyrics by BILLY FRISCH & ARCHIE FLETCHER; music by ALEX MARR
"When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" = lyrics by MARION GILLESPIE; music by FLORENCE METHUEN
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" = lyrics by JOE YOUNG & SAM M. LEWIS; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Without You" = lyrics by NORA BAYES; music by IRVING FISHER
"Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" = lyrics by SIDNEY D. MITCHELL; music by ARCHIE GOTTLER
"You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" = English lyrics by GRANT CLARKE, French lyrics by LOUIS DELAMARRE; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" = lyrics & music by AL W. BROWN, GUS KAHN & EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE

Top Hit Recordings

"Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle"

recorded by THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JASS BAND

"Over There"

recorded by ENRICO CARUSO

"After You've Gone"

recorded by MARION HARRIS

"Smiles"

recorded by JOSEPH C. SMITH'S ORCHESTRA

"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows"

recorded by CHARLES HARRISON

"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody"

recorded by AL JOLSON

"Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land"

recorded by AL JOLSON

"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry"

recorded by HENRY BURR

Classical Music

ARNOLD BAX

Symphonic Variations

FREDERICK DELIUS

A Song Before Sunrise

ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV

Romance of Nina

AGUSTÍN BARRIOS

Un sueño en la foresta

CARL NIELSEN

Pan and Syrinx (tone poem)

KAROL SZYMANOWSKI

Songs of an infatuated Muezzin

Opera

CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN

Shanewis

GIACOMO PUCCINI

Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)

GABRIEL VON WAYDITCH

Jesus Before Herod

Musical Theatre

AS YOU WERE

London production opened at the Pavilion on August 3

THE BETTER 'OLE

Broadway production opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on October 19, transferred to the Cort Theatre on November 18 and transferred to the Booth Theatre on June 16, 1919 for a total run of 353 performances

BUZZ-BUZZ

London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 20 and ran for 612 performances

THE CANARY

Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 4 and ran for 152 performances

FIDDLERS THREE

Broadway production opened at the Cort Theatre on September 3 and ran for 87 performances

THE GIRL BEHIND THE GUN

Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 160 performances

HULLO, AMERICA

London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 25

THE LILAC DOMINO

London production opened at the Empire Theatre on February 21 and ran for 747 performances

LISTEN LESTER Starring Mary Milburn, Eddie Garvie, Johnny Dooley, Clifton Webb, Ada Mae Weeks, Ada Lewis and Gertrude Vanderbilt.

(Music: Harold Orlob Book and Lyrics: Harry L. Cort & George E. Stoddard)

Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 23 and ran for 272 performances.

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.

THE PASSING SHOW OF 1918

Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on July 25 and ran for 142 performances

PHI-PHI

Paris operetta opened at the Bouffes-Parisiens on November 12

SINBAD

Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 14 and ran for 164 performances

SOMETIME

(Music: Rudolf Friml Book: Rida Johnson Young Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young)

Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 4 and transferred to the Casino Theatre on November 11 for a total run of 283 performances. Featuring Mae West and Ed Wynn

TOOT-TOOT!

Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on March 11 and ran for 40 performances

VERY GOOD, EDDIE

London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18 and ran for 341 performances

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Page created: 16th May 2011
Last edited: 20th December 2023