18 May:ALBERT HAMMOND = Gibraltarian singer, songwriter, and record producer
20 May:
JOE COCKER = British singer and musician = [died: 2014]
BOUDEWIJN DE GROOT = Dutch singer/songwriter
21 May:MARCIE BLANE = American singer
24 May:PATTI LaBELLE = American singer, author, actress, and entrepreneur
28 May:
GLADYS KNIGHT = American singer–songwriter and actress
GARY STEWART = American country musician songwriter = [died: 2003]
BILLY VERA = American singer, songwriter, actor, author and music historian
31 May:MICK RALPHS = English guitarist and songwriter, founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company
2 June:MARVIN HAMLISCH = American composer and conductor = [died: 2012]
4 June:MICHELLE PHILLIPS = American singer, songwriter, and actress, co-founder and vocalist of The Mamas & the Papas
6 June:EDGAR FROESE = German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group Tangerine Dream = [died: 2015]
7 June:CLARENCE WHITE = American bluegrass and country guitarist and singer. Member of the bluegrass ensemble the Kentucky Colonels, Nashville West and the rock band The Byrds = [died: 1973]
8 June:BOZ SCAGGS = American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
17 June:CHRIS SPEDDING = English musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and record producer
21 June:RAY DAVIES = English musician, rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for The Kinks
22 June:PETER ASHER = British guitarist, singer, manager and record producer, member of Peter & Gordon
23 June:ROSETTA HIGHTOWER = American singer, and the lead singer of the 1960s girl group The Orlons = [died: 2014]
24 June:
CHRIS WOOD = English rock musician, founder member of Traffic = [died: 1983]
JEFF BECK = English rock guitarist
30 June:GLENN SHORROCK = English-born Australian singer-songwriter. He was a founding member of pop groups The Twilights, Axiom, Little River Band, and post LRB spin-off trio Birtles Shorrock Goble, as well as being a solo performer
8 July:JAI JOHANNY JOHANSON = American drummer and percussionist, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band
22 July:RICK DAVIES = English musician, singer and songwriter. Founder, vocalist and keyboardist with Supertramp
23 July:DINO DANELLI = American musician, drummer with The Rascals
27 July:BOBBIE GENTRY = American singer-songwriter
2 August:JIM CAPALDI = English drummer, singer and songwriter, member of Traffic = [died: 2005]
3 August:NINO BRAVO = Spanish pop singer = [died: 1973]
8 August:MICHAEL JOHNSON = American pop, country and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist
12 August:LARRY TROUTMAN = American R&B musician, member of American funk band Zapp = [died: 1999]
18 August:CARL WAYNE = British singer and actor, member of The Move = [died: 2004]
19 August:EDDY RAVEN = American country music artist
27 August
TIM BOGERT = American musician, bass guitarist with Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and the power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice
CUBA GOODING, Sr. = American lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient
1 September:
ARCHIE BELL = African-American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells
LEONARD SLATKIN = American conductor, author and composer. Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
4 September:GENE PARSONS = American drummer, banjo player, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and innovative engineer, member of The Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers
12 September:BARRY WHITE = American composer and soul singer-songwriter and record producer = [died: 2003]
13 September:PETER CETERA = American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago
16 September:
WINSTON GRENNAN = Jamaican drummer = [died: 2000]
BETTY KELLEY = American singer with Martha and the Vandellas
23 September:IVAN MARTIN JIROUS = Czech poet, best known for being the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe = [died: 2011]
29 September:MIKE POST = American composer, best known for his TV theme songs
1 October:BARBARA PARRITT = American singer with The Toys
4 October:MARLENA DAVIS = American R&B singer, member of The Orlons = [died: 1993]
9 October:
JOHN ENTWISTLE = English singer, songwriter, composer, musician, film and music producer. Best known as the original bass guitarist for the English rock band The Who = [died: 2002]
NONA HENDRYX = American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress
13 October:ROBERT LAMM = American keyboardist, singer and songwriter who came to fame as a founding member of the pop rock band Chicago
16 October:PATSY WATCHORN = Irish folk musician, members of Dublin City Ramblers and later The Dubliners
19 October:PETER TOSH = Jamaican reggae musician = [died: 1987]
24 October:
TED TEMPLEMAN = American record producer
BETTYE SWANN = American soul singer
25 October:JON ANDERSON = English musician, singer and songwriter, lead vocalist of Yes and half of Jon & Vangelis
26 October:JIM McCANN = Irish entertainer and folk musician, member of The Dubliners {1974-1979} = [died: 2015]
29 October:DENNY LAINE = English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was an original member of The Moody Blues {1964-1966}, singing the band's first hit "Go Now" in 1964, and was a member of Wings {1971-1981} with Paul McCartney
2 November:KEITH EMERSON = English musician and composer, keyboard player with The Nice {1967-1970} and Emerson, Lake & Palmer {1970-1979, 1991-1998} = [died: 2016]
8 November:BONNIE BRAMLETT = American singer and occasional actress, half of Delaney & Bonnie
10 November:Sir TIM RICE = English author and lyricist
12 November:BOOKER T. JONES = American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s
17 November:GENE CLARK = American singer-songwriter and founding member of the folk rock band the The Byrds = [died: 1991]
26 November:JEAN TERRELL = American R&B and jazz singer. She replaced Diana Ross as the lead singer of The Supremes {1970-1973}
1 December:
ERIC BLOOM = American singer, songwriter and musician, member of Blue Öyster Cult
JOHN DENSMORE = American musician, songwriter, author and actor. Best known as the drummer of the rock band The Doors
4 December:
CHRIS HILLMAN = American musician, member of The Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers and Desert Rose Band)
DENNIS WILSON = American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded and was drummer for The Beach Boys = [died: 1983]
6 December:JONATHAN KING = English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, and former television and radio presenter
7 December:DANIEL CHORZEMPA = American organist and architect
9 December
NEIL INNES = English writer, comedian and musician, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles
SHIRLEY BRICKLEY = American R&B singer, member of The Orlons = [died: 1977]
11 December:BRENDA LEE = American singer
12 December:ROB TYNER = American musician, lead singer for MC5 = [died: 1991]
19 December:
ALVIN LEE = English singer and guitarist, best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After = [died: 1913]
ZAL YANOVSKY = Canadian rock musician, lead guitarist and singer for The Lovin' Spoonful a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964 = [died: 2002]
WILLIAM CHRISTIE = American-born French conductor and harpsichordist
20 December:BOBBY COLOMBY = American jazz-rock fusion drummer, and an original member of the group Blood, Sweat & Tears
21 December:MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS = American conductor, pianist and composer
22 December:BARRY JENKINS = English musician, drummer for The Animals
25 December:HENRY VESTINE = American guitar player known mainly as a member of the band Canned Heat = [died: 1997]
27 December:
MICK JONES = English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founding member of the rock band Foreigner, prior to that, he was in the band Spooky Tooth
TRACY NELSON = American singer, made six albums with Mother Earth {1967-1977}
Timeline of Musical Events
18 January: The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are LOUIS ARMSTRONG, BENNY GOODMAN, LIONEL HAMPTON, ARTIE SHAW, ROY ELDRIDGE and JACK TEAGARDEN
20 January: PAUL HINDEMITH's Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber is premiered in New York City.
February: The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra loses its concert hall in an Allied air raid.
28 July:Sir HENRY WOOD, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert.
19 August: Italian singers LUCIA MANNUCCI and VIRGILIO SAVONA get married.
18 October:ORVILLE "HOPPY" JONES, bass singer of the Ink Spots, passes away in New York City.
1 December: BÉLA BARTÓK's Concerto for Orchestra is premiered in Boston, Massachusetts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by SERGE KOUSSEVITZKY
15 December:GLENN MILLER is reported missing. The official explanation is that his plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested.
Also in 1944:-
FLO SANDON's makes her stage debut, singing in a charity show.
JO STAFFORD launches her solo career.
FRANKIE LAINE cuts his first singles for the Beltone and Atlas labels.
Published Popular Music
"Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" = English lyrics by HAROLD ROME, French lyrics by JEAN MARIE BLANVILLAIN; music by HERPIN
"And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" = lyrics by JOE GREENE; music by STAN KENTON & CHARLES LAWRENCE
"Bell Bottom Trousers" = lyrics & music by MOE JAFFE
"The Boy Next Door" = lyrics & music by HUGH MARTIN & RALPH BLANE
"Candy" = lyrics by MACK DAVID & JOAN WHITNEY; music by ALEX KRAMER
"Can't Help Singing" = lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG; music by JEROME KERN
"Dance with a Dolly" = lyrics & music by TERRY SHAND, JIMMY VAN EATON & DAVID KAPP
"Don't Fence Me In" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"Dream" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY MERCER
"Fine Brown Frame" = lyrics & music by GUADALUPE CARTIERO & J. MAYO WILIAMS
"First Class Private Mary Brown" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"G. I. Jive" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY MERCER
"Going My Way" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" = lyrics & music by HUGH MARTIN & RALPH BLANE
"A Hot Time in the Town Of Berlin" = lyrics by JOHN DE VRIES; music by JOE BUSHKIN
"How Blue the Night" = lyrics by HAROLD ADAMSON; music by JIMMY McHUGH
"How Little We Know" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by HOAGY CARMICHAEL
"I Begged Her" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JULE STYNE
"I Didn't Know About You" = lyrics by BOB RUSSELL; music by DUKE ELLINGTON
"I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" = lyrics & music by MARJORIE GOETSCHIUS & EDNA OSSER
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JULE STYNE
"I Love You" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"I'll Walk Alone" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JULE STYNE
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" = lyrics & music by DUKE ELLINGTON, DON GEORGE, JOHNNY HODGES & HARRY JAMES
"I'm Making Believe" = lyrics by MACK GORDON; music by JAMES V. MONACO
"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" = lyrics & music by ALLAN ROBERTS & DORIS FISHER
"It Could Happen to You" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN. Introduced by DOROTHY LAMOUR and FRED MacMURRAY in the film And the Angels Sing
"It's Love, Love, Love" = lyrics by MACK DAVID; music by ALEX KRAMER & JOAN WHITNEY
"Jealous Heart" = lyrics & music by JENNY LOU CARSON
"Keep a Sunbeam in Your Pocket" = lyrics & music by V. GUEST & M. SHERWIN from the film Bees in Paradise
"Leave the Dishes in the Sink, Ma" = lyrics & music by MILTON BERLE, GENE DOYLE & SPIKE JONES
"Like Someone in Love" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN. Introduced by DINAH SHORE in the film Belle of the Yukon
"A Little on the Lonely Side" = lyrics & music by DICK ROBERTSON, FRANK WELDON & JAMES CAVANAUGH
"Long Ago and Far Away" = lyrics by IRA GERSHWIN; music by JEROME KERN. Introduced by MARTHA MEARS dubbing for RITA HAYWORTH in the film Cover Girl
"Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet" = lyrics & music by DON RAYE & GENE DE PAUL
"More and More" = lyrics by E. Y. HARBURG; music by JEROME KERN. From the Universal film Can't Help Singing
"My Dreams Are Getting Better All The Time" = lyrics by MANN CURTIS; music by VIC MIZZY
"Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" = lyrics by PHIL SILVERS; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"New York, New York" = lyrics by BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Now I Know" = lyrics by TED KOEHLER; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by HARRY WARREN
"One Meat Ball" = lyrics by HY ZARET; music by LOU SINGER
"Please Don't Say No" = lyrics by RALPH FREED; music by SAMMY FAIN from the film Thrill of a Romance
"Put It There Pal" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"Rum and Coca-Cola" = lyrics & music by MOREY AMSTERDAM, PAUL BARON & JERI SULLIVAN
"Saturday Night" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JULE STYNE
"Sentimental Journey" = lyrics by BUD GREEN; music by LES BROWN & BEN HOMER
"Sleighride in July" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN. Introduced by DINAH SHORE in the film Belle of the Yukon
"Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)" = lyrics & music by JIMMIE HODGES
"Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"Stella by Starlight" = lyrics by NED WASHINGTON; music by VICTOR YOUNG
"Swinging on a Star" = lyrics by JOHNNY BURKE; music by JAMES VAN HEUSEN
"There Goes That Song Again" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JULE STYNE
"There's A Fellow Waiting In Poughkeepsie" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by HAROLD ARLEN
"There's No You" = lyrics by TOM ADAIR; music by HAL HOPPER
"This Heart of Mine" = lyrics by ARTHUR FREED; music by HARRY WARREN
"Till Then" = lyrics & music by EDDIE SEILER, SOL MARCUS & GUY WOOD
"Twilight Time" = lyrics & music by BUCK RAM, MORTIE NEVINS & ARTIE DUNN
"Umbriago" = lyrics & music by IRVING CAESAR & JIMMY DURANTE
"You Always Hurt the One You Love" = lyrics & music by ALLAN ROBERTS & DORIS FISHER
"You Belong To My Heart" = English lyrics by RAY GILBERT; music by AGUSTÍN LARA
"You Can't Get That No More" = lyrics & music by LOUIS JORDAN & SAM THEARD
"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" = lyrics & music by RUSS MORGAN, LARRY STOCK & JAMES CAVANAUGH
Classical Music
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Symphony No 4
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Fancy Free (ballet)
AARON COPLAND
Appalachian Spring (ballet)
GEORGE CRUMB
Two Duos for flute and clarinet
DAVID DIAMOND
Rounds
JOHN FERNSTRÖM
Symphony No. 10
VIVIAN FINE
Concertante for Piano and Orchestra
GERALD FINZI
Farewell to Arms
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS
Westmoreland Symphony
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
String Quartet No. 2
VAGN HOLMBOE
Symphony No. 4
JOSEPH JONGEN
Concerto for Harp No. 1
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY
Missa Brevis
FRANK MARTIN
Petite symphonie concertante
DARIUS MILHAUD
Suite française
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Trio for violin, cello and piano No. 2 E minor, Op. 67;
String Quartet No.2 in A major, Op. 68
MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of our Time
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Symphony No. 6 - Montanhas do Brasil (The Mountains of Brazil)
GRACE WILLIAMS
Sea Sketches
Opera
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
War and Peace
Musical Theatre
BLOOMER GIRL
(Music by: Harold Arlen; Book by: S. M. Herzig, Fred Saidy; Lyrics by: E.Y. Harburg)
Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 5 and ran for 654 performances.
FOLLOW THE GIRLS
(Music by: Philip Charig, Milton Pascal, Dan Shapiro; Book by: Guy Bolton, Eddie Davis; Lyrics by: Philip Charig, Milton Pascal, Dan Shapiro)
Broadway production opened at the New Century Theatre on April 8 and ran for 882 performances.
MEXICAN HAYRIDE
Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 28 and transferred to the Majestic Theatre on December 18 for a total run of 481 performances
A NIGHT IN VENICE
(Johann Strauss II)
London production opened at the Cambridge Theatre on May 25
ON THE TOWN
(Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
Broadway production opened at the Adelphi Theatre (New York) on December 28, transferred to the 44th Street Theatre on June 4, 1945 and transferred to the Martin Beck Theatre on July 30, 1945 for a total run of 462 performances.
SEVEN LIVELY ARTS
Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 7 and ran for 183 performances
SONG OF NORWAY
Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on August 21 and transferred to the Broadway Theatre on April 15, 1946 for a total run of 860 performances
SWEETER AND LOWER
London production
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 20th August 2011
Last edited: 29th July 2023
