Editing 1917 in music

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[[Image:ODJBsmall.JPG|right|Original Dixieland Jazz Band]]
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.

==Specific locations==
*[[1917 in British music]]
*[[1917 in Norwegian music]]

==Specific genres==
*[[1917 in country music]]
*[[1917 in jazz]]

==Events==
*[[March 7]] – "[[Livery Stable Blues]]", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]] (a white 5-piece group from New Orleans led by [[cornet]]ist [[Nick LaRocca]]) for the [[Victor Talking Machine Company]] in the United States, becomes the first [[jazz]] recording commercially released (described as a "[[foxtrot]]"). On August 17 the band records "[[Tiger Rag]]"
*[[May 12]] – [[Béla Bartók]]'s ballet ''[[The Wooden Prince]]'' is premiered in [[Budapest]]
* First African American jazz recordings made by [[Wilbur Sweatman]]'s Band
* [[Eddie Cantor]] makes his first recordings
* [[Songs of the First World War]] become popular in the U.S.

==Bands formed==
*''See [[:Category:Musical groups established in 1917]]''

==Published popular music==
* "All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me" w. [[Al Dubin]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "Any Time Is Kissing Time" w. [[Oscar Asche]] m. [[Frederic Norton]] from the [[musical theater|musical]] ''[[Chu Chin Chow]]''
* "Are You From Heaven?" w.m. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] & [[Anatole Friedland]]
* "[[At the Jazz Band Ball]]" w.m. [[Edwin B. Edwards]], [[Nick LaRocca]], [[Tony Spargo]] & [[Larry Shields]]
* "A Bachelor Gay" w. [[Frank Clifford Harris]] & [[Archibald Thomas Pechey|(Arthur) Valentine]] m. [[James W. Tate]] from the [[musical theater|musical]] ''[[The Maid of the Mountains]]''
* "Barnyard Blues" w.m. [[Edwin B. Edwards]], [[Nick La Rocca]], [[Tony Sbarbaro]] & [[Larry Shields]]
* "[[The Bells of St. Mary's (song)|The Bells Of St Mary's]]" w. [[Douglas Furber]] m. A. Emmett Adams
* "The Bombo-Shay" by [[Henry Creamer]]
[[File:Sheet music cover - BRING BACK MY DADDY TO ME (1917).jpg|thumb|upright|Sheet music cover for "Bring Back My Daddy To Me"]]
* "[[Bring Back My Daddy to Me]]" m. George W. Meyer w. William Tracey & [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]]
* "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler
* "Cheer Up, Liza" John L. Golden, [[Raymond Hubbell]]
* "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan
* "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin
* "[[Darktown Strutters' Ball|The Darktown Strutters' Ball]]" w.m. [[Shelton Brooks]]
* "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]]
* "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "[[For Me and My Gal (song)|For Me And My Gal]]" w. [[Edgar Leslie]] & [[E. Ray Goetz]] m. [[George W. Meyer]]
* "[[For Your Country and My Country]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. [[Geoffrey O'Hara]]
* "[[Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl]]" w. [[Lew Brown]] m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "Going Up" w. [[Otto Harbach]] m. Louis A. Hirsch
* "Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy" w. [[Will D. Cobb]] m. [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]
* "[[Good Bye Broadway, Hello France]]" w. C. Francis Reisner & [[Benny Davis]] m. Billy Baskette
[[File:GoodbyeBroadway.PNG|thumb|Promotional ad for "Good-bye Broadway—Hello, France!" published in the New York Clipper.<ref name="New York Clipper 15 August 1917 — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections">{{cite web|title=New York Clipper|url=http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=NYC19170815&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------#|website=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|accessdate=6 July 2015}}</ref>]]
* "[[Goodbye, Ma! Goodbye, Pa! Goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw!]]" w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker
* "'Good-bye,' That Means You" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Arthur Lange
* "Good-bye-ee" w.m. [[R. P. Weston]] & [[Bert Lee]]
* "[[Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here]]" w. D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Dolly Morse) m. [[Theodore F. Morse]] & [[Arthur Sullivan]]
* "Have A Heart" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Hawaiian Butterfly" w. [[George A. Little]] m. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley
* "[[Homeward Bound (1917 song)|Homeward Bound]]" m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz
* "Homing" w. Arthur L. Salmon m. Teresa del Riego
* "How Can I Forget When There's So Much To Remember" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "Huckleberry Finn" by [[Cliff Hess]]
* "[[I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way]]" w.m. [[George Fairman]]
* "[[I Don't Want to Get Well]]" w. [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] & Harry Pease m. Harry Jentes
* "[[I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time]]" w. [[Lew Brown]] m. [[Albert Von Tilzer]]
* "[[I Wish You All the Luck in the World]]" w. & m. by [[Abe Olman]]
* "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" w. Bert Hanlon m. Willie White
* "I'll Take You Back To Italy" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. [[Jean Schwartz]]
* "[[I'm Always Chasing Rainbows]]" w. [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]] m. Harry Carroll (melody adapted from Chopin)
* "If I Find The Guy Who Wrote "Poor Butterfly"" w. [[William Jerome]] m. Arthur Green
* "Indiana" w. [[Ballard MacDonald]] m. [[James F. Hanley]]
* "[[Indianola (song)|Indianola]]" m. Henry R. Stern & Domenico Savino
* "[[Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You]]" w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] & Willie Weston m. Jack Wells
[[File:WillieWeston.PNG|thumb|right|180px|Willie Weston<ref name="New York Clipper 15 August 1917 — Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections" />]]
* "Johnson Rag" m. Guy H. Hall & Henry Kleinhauf
* "[[Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)|Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight]]" w. [[Sam M. Lewis]] & Joe Young  m. [[M. K. Jerome]]
* "[[Leave It to Jane]]" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "[[Let's All Be Americans Now]]" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]], Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer
* "Lily Of The Valley" w. [[L. Wolfe Gilbert]] m. Anatole Friedland
* "[[Little Mother of Mine]]" w. Walter H. Brown m. [[Harry T. Burleigh]]
* "Little Sir Echo" w. Laura R. Smith m. J. S. Fearis
[[Image:Livery00.jpg|right|frame|The first "jass" tune to be recorded. Roger Graham Music Publisher, Chicago. Click image for more information.]]
* "[[Livery Stable Blues]]" [[Alcide Nunez]] & [[Ray Lopez]]
* "[[Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)]]" w. Alfred Bryan m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "Love Will Find A Way" w. [[Harry Graham (poet)|Harry Graham]] m. [[Harold Fraser-Simson]].  Introduced by [[José Collins]] in the [[theater musical|musical]] ''[[The Maid of the Mountains]]''
* "[[Mademoiselle from Armentières]]" w.m. anon
* "McNamara's Band" w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus O'Connor
* "The Modern Maiden's Prayer" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
* "My Sunshine Jane" w. [[J. Keirn Brennan]] m. [[Ernest R. Ball]]
* "My Sweetie" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "'N' Everything" w.m. [[Al Jolson]], [[B. G. DeSylva]] & [[Gus Kahn]]
* "Napoleon" w. [[P.G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Nesting Time in Flatbush" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "[[Oh It's a Lovely War]]" w.m. Maurice Scott
* "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" w. [[Ed Rose (lyricist)|Ed Rose]] m. [[Abe Olman]]
* "Ole Miss Rag" w.m. [[W. C. Handy]]
* "[[On the Road to Home Sweet Home]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Egbert van Alstyne]]
* "Ostrich Walk" m. Edwin B. Edwards, [[Nick LaRocca]], Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
* "[[Out Where the West Begins]]" w. [[Arthur Chapman (poet)|Arthur Chapman]] m. Estelle Philleo
* "[[Over There]]" w.m. [[George M. Cohan]]
* "[[Paddy McGinty's Goat]]" w.m. [[R.P. Weston]], [[Bert Lee]] & [[The Two Bobs]]
* "A Paradise For Two" w. [[Frank Clifford Harris]] & [[Archibald Thomas Pechey|Valentine]] m. [[James W. Tate]]
* "Regretful Blues" w. Grant Clarke m. Cliff Hess
* "Reflection Rag" m. Scott Joplin
* "The Road to Paradise" w. [[Rida Johnson Young]] m. [[Sigmund Romberg]] from the musical ''[[Maytime (musical)|Maytime]]''
* "Rockaway" by [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]]
* "Rolled Into One" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "[[Rose Room]]" w. [[Harry Williams (songwriter)|Harry Williams]] m. [[Art Hickman]]
* "[[Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] m. [[Egbert Van Alstyne]]
* "[[Say a Prayer for the Boys "Out There"]]" w. Bernie Grossman m. Alex Marr
* "[[Send Me Away with a Smile|Send Me Away With A Smile]]" w.m. Louis Weslyn & [[Al Piantadosi]]
* "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" m. Spencer Williams
* "Sing Me Love's Lullaby" w. Dorothy Terris m. [[Theodore F. Morse]]
* "The Siren's Song" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Slippery Hank" [[Frank H. Losey]]
* "Smile And Show Your Dimple" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]] (reworked 1933 as "[[Easter Parade (song)|Easter Parade]]")
* "[[Some Sunday Morning]]" w. [[Gus Kahn]] & [[Raymond B. Egan]] m. [[Richard A. Whiting]]
* "[[Somewhere in France (song)|Somewhere in France]]" w. [[Arthur Wimperis]] m. Herbert Ivey
* "[[Somewhere in France Is Daddy]]" w. m. Great Howard (Howard Miller)
* "[[Somewhere in France Is the Lily|Somewhere In France (Is The Lily)]]" w. [[Philander Chase Johnson]] m. [[Joseph E. Howard]]
* "Southern Gals" w. [[Jack Yellen]] m. Albert Gumble
* "Sweet Emalina My Gal" w. [[Henry Creamer]] m. [[Turner Layton]]
* "There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie" w. Alfred Bryan & [[Jack Yellen]] m. Albert Gumble
* "There's Something Nice About The South" w.m. [[Irving Berlin]]
* "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" w. [[Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)|Joseph McCarthy]] m. [[Fred Fisher]]
* "They'll Be Whistling It All Over Town" w. [[E. Ray Goetz]] m.[[Jean Schwartz]]
* "Thine Alone" w. [[Henry Blossom]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "The Tickle Toe" w. [[Otto Harbach]] m. [[Louis Hirsch]]
* "Tiger Rag" w. Harry De Costa m. [[Edwin B. Edwards]], [[Nick La Rocca]], [[Tony Sbarbaro]], [[Henry Ragas]] & [[Larry Shields]]
* "Till The Clouds Roll By" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]], [[Guy Bolton]] & [[Jerome Kern]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]
* "Ugly Chile" w.m. [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]]
* "The Waggle O' The Kilt" w.m. [[Harry Lauder]]
* "Wait Till The Cows Come Home" w. [[Anne Caldwell]] m. [[Ivan Caryll]]
* "[[When the Boys Come Home]]" w. John Hay m. [[Oley Speaks]]
* "[[When the Clouds of War Roll By]]" w. Nat Binns m. Earl Haubrich
* "[[When Yankee Doodle Learns to "Parlez Vous Français"|When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais]]" w. Will Hart m. Edward G. Nelson
* "[[Where Do We Go from Here? (1917 song)|Where Do We Go from Here?]]" w. [[Howard Johnson (lyricist)|Howard Johnson]] m. [[Percy Wenrich]]
* "Where The Morning Glories Grow" w. [[Gus Kahn]] & [[Raymond B. Egan]] m. [[Richard A. Whiting]]
* "Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid?" w.m. Fred Leigh, Charles Collins & [[Lily Morris]]
* "Will You Remember?" w. [[Rida Johnson Young]] m. [[Sigmund Romberg]]
* "You Brought Ireland Right Over To Me" w. [[J. Keirn Brennan]] m. [[Ernest Ball|Ernest R. Ball]]
* "You Never Knew About Me" w. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] m. [[Jerome Kern]]

==Hit recordings==
[[File:Livery-stable.jpg|thumb|The first commercial jazz recording, 1917.]]
*"[[Livery Stable Blues]]/Dixie Jass One Step" by the [[Original Dixieland Jass Band]]
*"Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" by the American Quartet
*"[[A Bachelor Gay]]" by [[Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)|Peter Dawson]]
*"I Don't Want To Get Well" by [[Van & Schenck]]
*"Joe Turner Blues" by [[Wilbur Sweatman]]
*"Long Boy" by [[Byron G. Harlan]] With The [[Peerless Quartet]]
*"Over There"  recorded by
**[[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]]
**[[Nora Bayes]]
*"Poor Butterfly" by the [[Victor Talking Machine Company|Victor]] Military Band
*"That's The Kind Of A Baby For Me" by [[Eddie Cantor]]
*"The Waggle O' The Kilt" by [[Harry Lauder]]
*"Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo" by [[Van & Schenck]]

==Classical music==
*[[Arnold Bax]] – ''[[November Woods]]''
*[[Lili Boulanger]] – ''[[Lili Boulanger#Psalm 130|Psaume 130 (Du fond de l'abîme)]]''
*[[Frank Bridge]] – [[Cello Sonata (Bridge)|Cello Sonata]] in D minor
*[[John Alden Carpenter]]
**''The Birthday of the Infanta'', ballet
**''The Home Road'' for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano
** Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones")
*[[Carlos Chávez]] – [[Piano Sonata No. 1 (Chávez)|Sonata fantasia (Piano Sonata No. 1)]]
*[[Nancy Dalberg]] – Symphony in C-sharp minor
*[[Claude Debussy]] – [[Violin Sonata (Debussy)|Violin Sonata]] in G minor
*[[Frederick Delius]] – ''[[Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)]]''
*[[Gabriel Fauré]] – [[Cello Sonata No. 1 (Fauré)|Cello Sonata No. 1]]
*[[Alexander Glazunov]] – [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Glazunov)|Piano Concerto No. 2]] in B, Op. 100
*[[Launy Grøndahl]] – Violin Concerto in D Major
*[[Charles Koechlin]]
**''La divine vesprée'', ballet
**''Paysages et marines'', Op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
**Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 66
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – ''[[Chaconne (Nielsen)|Chaconne]],'' for piano
*[[Willem Pijper]]
**Symphony No. 1, ''Pan''
**Sonatina No. 1, for piano
**''De Lente Komt,'' choral
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]]
**[[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Prokofiev)|Violin Concerto No. 1]], Op. 19
**[[The Gambler (Prokofiev)|''Igrok'' (''The Gambler'')]], opera, Op. 24
**[[Visions fugitives|''Mimoletnosti'' (''Visions fugitives'')]], 20 pieces for piano, Op. 22
**[[Piano Sonata No. 3 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 3]] ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 28
**[[Piano Sonata No. 4 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 4]] ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 29
**[[Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)|Symphony No. 1]] ''Classical'', Op. 25
*[[Maurice Ravel]] – ''[[Le tombeau de Couperin]]'', for piano
*[[Ottorino Respighi]] – [[Ancient Airs and Dances#Suite No. 1 (1917)|''Ancient Airs and Dances'' Suite No. 1]]
*[[Arnold Schoenberg]] – ''[[Verklärte Nacht]]'' (string orchestra version)
*[[Jean Sibelius]] – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89
*[[Charles Villiers Stanford]]
**''Aviator's Hymn'', for tenor, bass, choir, and organ
**''Irish Rhapsody No. 5'', in G Minor, for orchestra
**''Night Thoughts'', Op. 148, for piano
**"On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong
**''Sailing Song'', partsong, two soprano voices
**"St George of England", song
**''Scènes de ballet'', Op. 150, for piano
**Sonata No. 1, in F major, Op. 149, for organ
**Sonata No. 2 ("Eroica"), in G minor, Op. 151, for organ
**Sonata No. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, Op. 152, for organ
*[[Igor Stravinsky]]
**''Berceuse'', for voice and piano
**''[[Le chant du rossignol]]'', symphonic poem
**[[Five Easy Pieces (Stravinsky)|Cinq pièces faciles]], for piano 4 hands
**"Ovsen’", No. 2 from ''Podblyudnïye'' (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir
**''Song of the Volga Boatmen'', arrangement for winds and percussion
**Study, for pianola
**''Valse pour les enfants'', for piano (possibly 1916)
*[[Karol Szymanowski]]
**Sonata No. 3, for piano
**[[String Quartet No. 1 in C major (Szymanowski)|''String Quartet No. 1 in C major'']]
**''Demeter,'' cantata
**Agave, cantata
*[[Heitor Villa-Lobos]]
** [[String Quartet No. 4 (Villa-Lobos)|String Quartet No. 4]]
** [[Symphony No. 2 (Villa-Lobos)|Symphony No. 2]] ''Ascenção'' (Ascension), revised or completed 1943/44
*[[Eugène Ysaÿe]] – ''Exil'', for string orchestra of only violins and violas, Op. 25

==Opera==
*[[Armas Launis]] – ''Kullervo''
*[[Sergei Prokofiev]] – ''[[The Gambler (Prokofiev)|The Gambler]]''
*[[Ignatz Waghalter]] – ''Jugend''
*[[Giacomo Puccini]] – ''[[La rondine]]'',  [[Opéra de Monte-Carlo]], 27 March
* [[Richard Strauss]] – ''[[Die Frau ohne Schatten]]''
*[[Gabriel von Wayditch]] – ''The Caliph's Magician''
*[[Alexander Zemlinsky]] – ''[[Eine florentinische Tragödie]]''

==Film==
*[[Pietro Mascagni]] – ''[[Rapsodia Satanica]]''

==[[Jazz]]==
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==[[Musical theatre]]==
* ''[[The Beauty Spot]]'' [[West End of London|West End]] production opened at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] on 22 December and ran for 152 performances
* ''[[The Better 'Ole]]'' London production opened at the [[Oxford Theatre]] on August 4 and ran for 811 performances
* ''[[The Boy (musical)|The Boy]]'' London production opened at the [[Adelphi Theatre]] on September 14 and ran for 801 performances
* ''[[Cheep (revue)|Cheep]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] [[revue]] opened at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]] on April 26.
* ''[[Chu Chin Chow]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Manhattan Opera House]] on October 22 and ran for 208 performances
* ''[[Eileen (musical)|Eileen]]'' opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on March 19 and ran for 64 performances.
* ''[[Hanky Panky (revue)|Hanky Panky]]'' London [[revue]] opened at the [[Empire, Leicester Square|Empire Theatre]] on March 24
* ''Jack O'Lantern'' Broadway production opened at the [[Globe Theatre]] on October 16 and ran for 265 performances
* ''[[Leave It to Jane]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Longacre Theatre]] on August 28 and ran for 167 performances
* ''[[The Maid of the Mountains|The Maid Of The Mountains]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on February 10 and ran for 1352 performances
* ''[[Maytime (musical)|Maytime]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Shubert Theatre (Broadway)|Shubert Theatre]] on August 16 and ran for 492 performances
* ''[[Miss 1917]]'' Broadway [[revue]] opened at the [[Century Theatre (New York City)|Century Theatre]] on November 5 and ran for 72 performances
* ''[[Oh, Boy! (musical)]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Princess Theatre, New York City|Princess Theatre]] on February 20 and ran for 463 performances
* ''[[The Riviera Girl]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]] on September 24 and ran for 78 performances
* ''[[Arlette (musical)|Arlette]]'' [[West End of London|West End]] production opened at the [[Shaftesbury Theatre]] on 6 September and ran for 280 performances

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Vera Zorina]], German dancer and actress (died 2003)
*[[January 3]] – [[Pierre Dervaux]], French operatic conductor, composer and pedagogue (d. 1992)
*[[January 10]] – [[Jerry Wexler]], music journalist and record producer (d. 2008)
*[[January 12]]
**[[Walter Hendl]], American conductor, composer and pianist (d. 2007)
**[[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]], major influence on [[The Beatles]] (d. 2008)
*[[January 15]] – [[Tiny Timbrell]], guitarist (d. 1992)
*[[January 19]] – [[John Raitt]], American actor and singer (d. 2005)
*[[February 11]] – [[Arcesia]], singer (d. 1983)
*[[February 15]] – [[Denise Scharley]], French contralto (d. 2011)
*[[February 18]] – [[Dona Massin]], choreographer (d. 2001)
*[[February 25]] – [[Anthony Burgess]], composer (d. 1993)
*[[February 27]] – [[George Mitchell (Scottish musician)|George Mitchell]], founder of the ''Black and White Minstrels'' (d. 2002)
*[[March 2]]
**<!--March 2-->[[Desi Arnaz]], musician, actor and producer (d. 1986)
**<!--March 2-->[[John Gardner (composer)|John Gardner]], composer (d. 2011)
*[[March 7]] – [[Janet Collins]], dancer and choreographer (d. 2003)
*[[March 12]] – [[Leonard Chess]], founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
*[[March 17]] – [[Brian Boydell]], Irish composer (d. 2000)
*[[March 18]] – [[Riccardo Brengola]], violinist (d. 2004)
*[[March 19]] – [[Dinu Lipatti]], pianist (d. 1950)
*[[March 20]] – [[Vera Lynn]], singer (d. 2020)
*[[March 21]] – [[Anton Coppola]], opera conductor (d. 2020)
*[[March 23]]
**[[Josef Locke]], tenor (d. 1999)
**[[Oscar Shumsky]], violinist (d. 2000)
*[[March 26]] – [[Rufus Thomas]], singer (d. 2001)
*[[March 30]]
**<!--March 30-->[[Els Aarne]], composer (d. 1995)
**<!--March 30-->[[Rudolf Brucci]], composer (d. 2002)
*[[April 9]] – [[Johannes Bobrowski]], lyricist (d. 1965)
*[[April 12]] – [[Helen Forrest]], American jazz singer (d. 1999)
*[[April 22]] – [[Yvette Chauviré]], ballerina (d. 2016)
*[[April 25]] – [[Ella Fitzgerald]], jazz singer (d. 1996)
*[[April 30]] – [[Bea Wain]], US big band singer (d. 2017)
*[[May 1]]
**[[Danielle Darrieux]], singer and actress (d. 2017)
**[[Lily Lian]], street singer (d. 2020)
*[[May 14]]
**[[Lou Harrison]], US composer (d. 2003)
**[[Norman Luboff]], US choral director (d. 1987)
*[[May 16]] – [[Vera Rózsa]], singer and voice teacher (d. 2010)
*[[May 21]] – [[Dennis Day]], US singer (d. 1988)
*[[May 22]] – [[Georg Tintner]], Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
*[[May 28]] – [[Papa John Creach]], fiddler ([[Jefferson Airplane]]) (d. 1994)
*[[June 4]] – [[Robert Merrill]], operatic baritone (d. 2004)
*[[June 7]] – [[Dean Martin]], singer and actor (d. 1995)
*[[June 19]] – [[Dave Lambert (American jazz vocalist)|Dave Lambert]], US singer and arranger (d. 1966)
*[[June 29]] 
**[[Sylvia Olden Lee]], vocal coach and accompanist (d. 2004)
**[[Ulpio Minucci]], songwriter and composer (d. 2007)
*[[June 24]] – [[Ramblin' Tommy Scott]], American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
*[[June 30]] – [[Lena Horne]], singer (died 2010)
*[[July 2]] – [[Murry Wilson]], American songwriter, producer and manager (d. 1973)
*[[July 14]] – [[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]], Bollywood composer (d. 1967)
*[[July 17]] – [[Red Sovine]], American country & folk singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
*[[July 24]]
**<!--July 24-->[[Henri Betti]], French composer and pianist (d. 2005)
**<!--July 24-->[[Robert Farnon]], composer (d. 2005)
**<!--July 24-->[[Leonor Orosa Goquinco]], pianist and dancer (d. 2005)
*[[August 3]] – [[Antonio Lauro]], guitarist and composer (d. 1986)
*[[August 17]] – [[Walter Brown (singer)|Walter Brown]], blues shouter (d. 1956)
*[[August 22]] – [[John Lee Hooker]], blues musician (d. 2001)
*[[August 23]] – [[Tex Williams]], American country singer (d. 1985)
*[[September 5]] – [[Art Rupe]], founder of Specialty Records (d. 2022)
*[[September 11]] – [[Myrta Silva]], singer and composer (d. 1987)
*[[September 13]] – [[Robert Ward (composer)|Robert Ward]], composer (d. 2013)
*[[September 15]] – [[Richard Arnell]], English composer (d. 2009)
*[[September 30]] – [[Buddy Rich]], American jazz drummer (d. 1987)
*[[October 4]] – [[Violeta Parra]], Chilean folk musician (suicide 1967)
*[[October 7]] – [[June Allyson]], American singer and actress (d. 2006)
*[[October 10]] – [[Thelonious Monk]], American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
*[[October 13]] – [[George Osmond]], father of the Osmond brothers (d. 2007)
*[[October 21]]
**<!--October 21-->[[William Adam (trumpeter)|William Adam]], trumpeter (d. 2013)
**<!--October 21-->[[Dizzy Gillespie]], jazz musician (d. 1993)
*[[October 24]] – [[Mike Pedicin]], jazz bandleader (d. 2016)
*[[October 31]] – [[Anna Marly]], French singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
*[[November 12]]
**[[Hedley Jones]], Jamaican musician (d. 2017)
**[[Jo Stafford]], American pop singer (d. 2008)

==Deaths==
*January – [[Friederike Grün]], operatic soprano (born 1836)
*[[January 13]] – [[Albert Niemann (tenor)|Albert Niemann]], Wagnerian tenor (b. 1831)
*[[February 10]] – [[Emile Pessard]], French composer (b. 1843)
*[[February 25]] – [[Paul Rubens (composer)|Paul Rubens]], English songwriter (b. 1875)
*[[March 1]] – [[Antonina Miliukova]], widow of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] (b. 1848)
*[[March 4]] – [[Julius Bechgaard]], Danish composer (b. 1843)
*[[March 25]] – [[Spyridon Samaras]], composer (b. 1861)
*[[April 1]] – [[Scott Joplin]], ragtime composer (b. 1868)
*[[April 29]] – [[Florence Farr]], actress, singer and composer (b. 1860)
*[[May 20]] – [[Romilda Pantaleoni]], operatic soprano (b. 1847)
*[[May 25]] – [[Edouard de Reszke]], operatic bass (b. 1853)
*[[June 12]] – [[Teresa Carreño]], pianist, singer and conductor (b. 1853)
*[[July 16]] – [[Philipp Scharwenka]], composer (b. 1847)
*[[August 7]] – [[Basil Hood]], librettist and lyricist (b. 1864)
*[[August 12]] – [[Pavel Gerdt]], dancer (b. 1844)
*[[September 5]] – [[Marie Hanfstängl]], operatic soprano (b. 1848)
*[[September 8]] – [[Charles Edouard Lefebvre]], French composer (b. 1843)
*[[September 11]] – [[Evie Greene]], actress and singer (b. 1875)
*[[September 15]] – [[Elias Oechsler]], composer (b. 1850)
*[[October 3]] – [[Eduardo di Capua]], singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
*[[December 7]] – [[Ludwig Minkus]], violinist and composer (b. 1826)
*[[December 9]] – [[Nat M. Wills]], singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1873)

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==References==
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