1922 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1922.
Events
Sheet music cover of "Fate" featuring a photo of jazz band leader
Ted Lewis.
Published popular music
- "Aggravatin' Papa" w.m. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt
- "Ain't It A Shame" w.m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown
- "All Over Nothing At All" w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule
- "Along The Road To Gundagai" w.m. Jack O'Hagan
- "L'Amour, Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)" w.(Eng) Catherine Chisholm Cushing m. Rudolf Friml
- "Angel Child" w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver
- "Baby Blue Eyes" w.m. Jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel
- "Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez
- "Blue (And Broken Hearted)" w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman
- "A Brown Bird Singing" w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood
- "Bugle Call Rag" m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel
- "Carolina in the Morning" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
- "Carolina Shout" m. James P. Johnson
- "Chicago" w.m. Fred Fisher
- "China Boy" w.m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje
- "Crinoline Days" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Dancing Fool" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
- "Dearest (You're The Nearest To My Heart)" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst
- "Do It Again" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
- "Down In Midnight Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "Downhearted Blues" w.m. Alberta Hunter
- "Dream On" (An Indian Lullaby) w. B.G DeSylva, m. Victor Herbert
- "Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset
- "Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel
- "Fate" by Byron Gay
- "Georgette" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
- "Georgia" w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson
- "Goin' Home" w.m. Williams Arms Fisher
- "Hot Lips" w.m. Henry Busse, Henry Lange, Lou Davis
- "I Found A Four Leaf Clover" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin
- "I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert
- "I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
- "In The Little Red Schoolhouse" w.m. Al Wilson & James A. Brennan
- "A Kiss In The Dark" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Victor Herbert
- "The Lady In Ermine" w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman
- "Lady Of The Evening" w.m. Irving Berlin. Introduced by John Steel in the Music Box Revue of 1922.
- "Limehouse Blues" w. Douglas Furber m. Philip Braham
- "Lovesick Blues" w. Irving Mills m. Cliff Friend
- "Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam)" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
- "March With Me!" w. Douglas Furber m. Ivor Novello
- "Mary, Dear" w.m. Harry DeCosta & M. K. Jerome
- "Mister Gallagher And Mister Shean" w.m. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean
- "My Buddy" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
- "My Honey's Loving Arms" w. Herman Ruby m. Joseph Meyer
- "My Rambler Rose" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
- "My Sweet Hortense" w. Joe Young & Sam Lewis m. Walter Donaldson
- "My Word You Do Look Queer" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
- "'Neath The South Sea Moon" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
- "Nellie Kelly I Love You" w.m. George M. Cohan
- "On the Alamo" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones
- "On The Gin Gin Ginny Shore" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson
- "Oo-oo Ernest Are You Earnest With Me" w. Sidney Clare & Harry Tobias m. Cliff Friend
- "Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w. Harry Graham m. Robert Stolz
- "Rosalie" w.m. Hugo Frey
- "Rose Of The Rio Grande" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren & Ross Gorman
- "Round On The End And High In The Middle (O-Hi-O)" w.m. Alfred Bryan & Bert Hanlon
- "Runnin' Wild" w. Joe Grey & Leo Wood m. A. Harrington Gibbs
- "Say It While Dancing" w. Benny Davis m. Abner Silver
- "Some Sunny Day" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Stumbling" w.m. Zez Confrey
- "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do" w.m. Clarence Williams, Porter Grainger & Graham Prince
- "That Da Da Strain" w. Mamie Medina m. Edgar Dowell
- "Three O'Clock in the Morning" w. Dorothy Terriss m. Julián Robledo
- "Throw Me A Kiss" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper
- "Thru' The Night" w. Virginia K. Logan m. Frederic Knight Logan
- "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" w.m. Dan Russo, Ted Fio RitoGus Kahn & Ernie Erdman
- "Trees" w. Joyce Kilmer m. Oscar Rasbach
- "'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
- "The West, A Nest, And You" w. Larry Yoell m. Billy Hill
- "When Hearts Are Young" w. Cyrus Wood m. Sigmund Romberg & Al Goodman
- "When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down" w.m. Richard Howard
- "When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Blues" w.m. Jack Frost & Jimmy McHugh
- "Who Cares?" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager
- "Wonderful One" w. Dorothy Terris m. Paul Whiteman & Ferde Grofe
- "You Know You Belong To Somebody Else" w. Eugene West m. James V. Monaco
- "You Remind Me Of My Mother" w.m. George M. Cohan
- "You Tell Her, I S-t-u-t-t-e-r" w. Billy Rose m. Cliff Friend
Top hits on records
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 7 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (d. 2000)
- January 16 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
- January 28 - Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer; co-founded Anna Records (d. 2014)
- February 1 - Renata Tebaldi, operatic soprano (d. 2004)
- February 16 - Sir Geraint Evans, operatic baritone (d. 1992)
- February 17 - Tommy Edwards, singer (d. 1969)
- February 19 - Fredell Lack, US violinist
- March 28 - Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
- April 4 - Elmer Bernstein, film composer (d. 2004)
- April 5 - Gale Storm, singer and actress (d. 2009)
- April 7 - Mongo Santamaría, percussionist (d. 2003)
- April 14 - Ali Akbar Khan, Indian sarod player (d. 2009)
- April 22 - Charles Mingus, jazz musician (d. 1979)
- April 29 - Toots Thielemans, Belgian musician
- May 17 - Dennis Brain, horn virtuoso (d. 1957)
- May 25 - Kitty Kallen, US singer (d. 2016)
- May 29 - Iannis Xenakis, composer (d. 2001)
- June 10 - Judy Garland, US singer and actress (d. 1969)
- June 12 - Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist (d. 2001)
- June 17 - Jerry Fielding, US radio, film and television composer, arranger, conductor, and musical director (d. 1980)
- June 24 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
- August 11 - Ron Grainer, television composer (d. 1981)
- August 31 - John Hanson, singer and actor (d. 1998)
- September 3 - Salli Terri, singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
- September 13 - Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
- September 16 - Janis Paige, US singer and actress
- September 18 - Ray Steadman-Allen, composer for Salvation Army bands (d. 2014)
- October 17 - Luiz Bonfá, guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
Deaths
- January 26 - Luigi Denza, composer (b. 1846)
- March 4 - Bert Williams, star of the Ziegfeld Follies (b. 1875)
- March 10 - Hans Sitt, violinist and composer (b. 1850)
- March 22 - Nikolay Sokolov, composer (b. 1859)
- April 12 - František Ondříček, violinist and composer (b. 1857)
- April 18 - Percy Hilder Miles, violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1878)
- April 21 - Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican.(b. 1858)
- April 29 - Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor and composer (b. 1882) (typhus)
- May 2 - Ada Jones, US singer (b. 1873)
- May 7 - Max Wagenknecht, composer for organ and piano (b. 1857)
- May 15 - Harry Williams songwriter and music publisher (b. 1879)
- May 18 - Eugenia Burzio, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1872)
- May 22 - Carl Teike, composer (b. 1864)
- May 31 - Rutland Barrington, baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
- June 5 - Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (b. 1860)
- June 20 - Vittorio Monti, composer (b. 1868)
- July 24 - George Thorne, baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (b. 1856)
- August 5 - William Seidel, Band instrument manufacturer (died 1922 - suicide)
- August 13 - Tom Turpin, ragtime composer (b. 1871)
- August 18 - Dame Genevieve Ward, soprano (b. 1837)
- August 19 - Felipe Pedrell, composer (b. 1841)
- August 22 - Sofia Scalchi, operatic contralto (b. 1850)
- October 7 - Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (b. 1870)
- October 27 - Rita Fornia, US operatic soprano (b. 1878)
- November 14 - Karl Michael Ziehrer, composer and bandmaster (b. 1843)
- December 30 - Richard Zeckwer, composer and music teacher (b. 1850)
- date unknown - Alfred Lamy, maker of violin bows (b. 1886)
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