1921 in music

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1921 in music
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List of years in music (table)

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1921.

Specific locations[]

Specific genres[]

Events[]

  • January – Amelita Galli-Curci marries her accompanist, Homer Samuels, who had been named in her divorce from the Marchese Luigi Curci.
  • June–July – The Harvard Glee Club takes its first trip to Europe, garnering international press attention.[1]
  • November – A month before his death, Camille Saint-Saëns, 86, gives a final recital.[2]
  • Clarence Williams makes his first recordings
  • Mary Stafford becomes the first black woman to record for Columbia Records
  • The 17-string koto, or "Jūshichi-gen", is invented by Michio Miyagi.
  • Cyril Rootham dedicates his "Suite in Three Movements" for flute and piano to French flautist Louis Fleury.

Published popular music[]

  • "Ain't We Got Fun?" w.m. Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn
  • "All by Myself" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "And Her Mother Came Too" w. Dion Titheradge m. Ivor Novello
  • "Any Time" w.m. Herbert Happy Lawson
  • "April Showers" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers
  • "Baltimore Buzz" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "Bandana Days" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "Bimini Bay" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
  • "Boy Wanted" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
  • "Dancing Time" w.(Eng) George Grossmith, Jr. (US) Howard Dietz m. Jerome Kern US words written 1924.
  • "Dapper Dan" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Dear Old Southland" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
  • "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face" w. Al Jolson, Grant Clarke, Edgar Leslie m. James V. Monaco
  • "Down South" w. B. G. DeSylva m. Walter Donaldson. Introduced by Al Jolson in the musical Bombo
  • "Down Yonder" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • "Everybody Step" w.m. Irving Berlin
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  • "Hawaiian Chimes" w. Irving Bibo m. Eva Applefield
  • "I Ain't Nobody's Darling" w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King
  • "I Found A Rose In The Devil's Garden" w.m. Fred Fisher & Willie Raskin
  • "I Wonder If You Still Care For Me" w.m. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler
  • "I'll Forget You" w. Annelu Burns m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "I'm Just Wild About Harry" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'" w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack
  • "I'm Nobody's Baby" w.m. Benny Davis, Milton Ager & Lester Santly
  • "Jazz Me Blues" m. Tom Delaney
  • "Keep Movin'" Helen Trix
  • "Kitten On The Keys" m. Zez Confrey
  • "Laughin' Rag" S. Moore, H. Skinner
  • "Learn To Smile" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
  • "Leave Me With A Smile" w.m. Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett
  • "Love Will Find A Way" w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
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  • "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me" w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad
  • "Make Believe" w. Benny Davis m.
  • "Mandy 'N' Me" w. Bert Kalmar m. Con Conrad
  • "My Sunny Tennessee" w.m. Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby
  • "Peggy O'Neill" w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge
  • "Sally" w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern
  • "Say It With Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Second Hand Rose" w. Grant Clarke m. James F. Hanley
  • "The Sheik of Araby" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder
  • "She's Mine, All Mine" w.m. Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby
  • "Shuffle Along w.m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "Shimmy With Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern from the musical The Cabaret Girl
  • "Song Of Love" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
  • "Strut Miss Lizzie" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
  • "Swanee River Moon" w.m. H. Pitman Clarke
  • "Sweet Lady" w. Howard Johnson m. Frank Crumit & Dave Zoob
  • "Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes" w. Harry Pease & Johnny White m. Ira Schuster & Ed G. Nelson
  • "There'll Be Some Changes Made" w. Billy Higgins m. Benton Overstreet
  • "Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home" w. & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
  • "Wabash Blues" w. Dave Ringle m. Fred Meinken
  • "When Big Profundo Sang Low C" w. Marion T. Bohannon m. George Botsford
  • "When Buddha Smiles" w. Arthur Freed m. Nacio Herb Brown
  • "When Francis Dances With Me" w. Ben Ryan m. Sol Violinsky
  • "When Shall We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
  • "Whip-poor-will" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Jerome Kern
  • "Yoo-Hoo" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Al Jolson

Top hit recordings[]

  • "Wang Wang Blues" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, featuring Gussie Mueller
  • "Look for the Silver Lining" by Marion Harris
  • "Margie" by Eddie Cantor
  • "Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
  • "The Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones & His Orchestra
  • "Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
  • "All by Myself" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
  • "Everybody Step" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
  • "I'm A Jazz Vampire" by Marion Harris

Classical music[]

Opera[]

Jazz[]

Main article: 1921 in jazz

Musical theater[]

  • Bombo, Broadway production opened at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on October 6 and ran for 213 performances
  • , Broadway revue opened at the Times Square Theatre on June 8 and ran for 85 performances
  • (Music: Ivor Novello) London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 5. Starring Bobbie Comber and .
  • , Broadway production opened at the on November 1 and ran for 347 performances
  • Pot Luck London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 24.
  • London revue opened at the on January 17
  • London production opened at the Empire Theatre on March 12 and ran for 114 performances.
  • (Music: Book & Lyrics: ) Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on February 11 and ran for 99 performances. Starring Mabel Withee, and May Boley.
  • Sally, London production opened at the on September 10 and ran for 387 performances
  • Shuffle Along, Broadway production opened at the Daly's 63rd Street Theatre on May 23 and ran for 504 performances
  • Sybil, London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 19 and ran for 346 performances

Births[]

  • January 10 – Helen Bonchek Schneyer, folk musician (d. 2005)
  • January 17 – Lorna Cooke deVaron, choral conductor (d. 2018)
  • January 22 – Arno Babajanian, composer (d. 1983)
  • January 26 – Eddie Barclay, music producer (d. 2005)
  • January 31
    • Carol Channing, musical comedy star (d. 2019)
    • Mario Lanza, operatic tenor and film star (d. 1959)
  • February 5 – Sir John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
  • February 13 – Jeanne Demessieux, French organist and composer (d. 1968)[3]
  • February 16 – Vera-Ellen, dancer and actress (d. 1981)
  • February 20 - Ruth Gipps, composer (d. 1999)
  • February 26 – Betty Hutton, actress and singer (d. 2007)
  • March 2 – Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (d. 1997)
  • March 6 – Julius Rudel, conductor (d. 2014)
  • March 8 – Cyd Charisse, dancer (d. 2008)
  • March 11 – Ástor Piazzolla, tango composer (d. 1992)
  • March 12 – Gordon MacRae, singer and actor (d. 1986)
  • March 21
    • Arthur Grumiaux, violinist (d. 1986)
    • Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (d. 2014)
  • March 22 – Nino Manfredi, actor and film score composer (d. 2004)
  • March 27 – Phil Chess, born Fiszel Czyż, record producer (d. 2016)
  • April 1
  • April 3 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer and composer (d. 1968)[4]
  • April 8
    • Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (d. 1987)
    • Franco Corelli, operatic tenor (d. 2003)
  • April 22 – Cándido Camero, percussionist (d. 2020)
  • April 26 – Jimmy Giuffre, jazz musician (d. 2008)
  • May 17
    • Dennis Brain, horn virtuoso (d. 1957)
    • Bob Merrill, US songwriter (d. 1998)
  • May 23 – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (d. 2008)
  • May 25 – Hal David – US lyricist (d. 2012)
  • May 26 – Inge Borkh, German soprano (d. 2018)[5]
  • June 1 – Nelson Riddle, US conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1985)
  • June 3 – Betty Freeman, patron of classical music (d. 2009)
  • June 21 – Judy Holliday, US actress and singer (d. 1965)
  • June 24 – Peggy DeCastro, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters (d. 2004)
  • June 25 – Celia Franca, dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
  • July 12 – Hilary Corke, writer and composer (d. 2001)
  • July 15 – Jack Beeson, American pianist and composer (d. 2010)
  • July 17
    • George Barnes, American swing jazz guitarist (d. 1977)
    • Mary Osborne, American jazz guitarist (d. 1992)
  • July 20 – Carmen Carrozza, accordionist (d. 2013)
  • July 24 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, opera singer (d. 2008)
  • July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American pianist (d. 2005)[6]
  • August 3 – Richard Adler, American composer and lyricist (d. 2012)
  • August 4 – Herb Ellis, American guitarist (d. 2010)
  • August 7
    • Manitas de Plata, French Gitano flamenco guitarist (d. 2014)
    • Karel Husa, Czech-born classical composer (d. 2016)
  • August 9 – Lola Bobesco, Belgian violinist (d. 2003)
  • August 13 – Mary Lee, Scottish singer
  • September 3 – Thurston Dart, English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player (d. 1971)
  • September 4 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (d. 2010)
  • September 8 – Sir Harry Secombe, Welsh singer and comedian (d. 2001)
  • September 19 – Billy Ward, R&B singer (The Dominoes) (d. 2002)
  • September 21 – Chico Hamilton, jazz drummer (d. 2013)
  • September 30 – Pedro Knight, Cuban musician, manager (d. 2007)
  • October 1 – James Whitmore, actor in film musicals (d. 2009)
  • October 21
    • Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (d. 2006)
    • Jarmil Burghauser, conductor, composer and musicologist (d. 1997)
  • October 23 – Denise Duval, soprano (d. 2016)
  • October 25 – Little Hatch, blues musician (d. 2003)
  • November 5 – Georges Cziffra, pianist (d. 1994)
  • November 9 – Pierrette Alarie, soprano (d. 2011)
  • November 21 – Vivian Blaine, actress and singer (d. 1995)
  • November 23 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer, musician and songwriter (d. 1960)
  • December 3 – Phyllis Curtin, soprano (d. 2016)
  • December 4 – Deanna Durbin, singer and actress (d. 2013)
  • December 8 – Johnny Otis, blues musician (d. 2012)
  • December 15 – Alan Freed, disc jockey (d. 1965)
  • December 26 – Steve Allen, musician and comedian (d. 2000)

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ Harvard Glee Club: About Archived March 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 10 March 2014
  2. ^ Prod'homme, Jacques-Gabriel (October 1922). "Camille Saint-Saëns" (PDF). The Musical Quarterly. 8: 469–486. doi:10.1093/mq/viii.4.469. ISSN 0027-4631. JSTOR 737853. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-0-67437-299-3.
  4. ^ Evelyn Mack Truitt (1977). Who was who on Screen. Bowker. p. 332. ISBN 978-0-8352-0914-4.
  5. ^ Ewen, David (1978). Musicians Since 1900: Performers in Concert and Opera. New York: Wilson. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-82420-565-2.
  6. ^ "Grant Johannesen – Obituaries – News". The Independent. April 30, 2005. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
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